Sentence examples for the borderland where from inspiring English sources

The measure eventually failed, but it dominated the political discussion in the borderland, where people saw it was just one facet in a larger surge of xenophobia.

The games of the sophisticated denizens of the borderland where contemporary life abuts the future were the territory of Douglas Coupland's JPod, while De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage was played out in the narrow realm where past conflicts encroach on the present and future.

They were always there, full of quirky figures that helped to populate the busy borderland where real life shaded into the world of stories, and that is where they remained for the next 40-odd years.

In recent weeks, showings of "Border Bandits" and forums on Benjamin Johnson's book have reopened wounds nearly a century old in the heavily Hispanic borderland, where the graves of the two Tejanos can still be found.

("You are old, Father William", anyone?) But still Alice's adventures transport readers as no other books can to the strange borderland where logic and dream meet, and leave minds altered, stretched, enlarged and stocked forever with our culture's touchstone moments of surrealism.

"He came of age, and learned to be a master, on a racial borderland where the definitions and boundaries of race were dangerously fluid," Mr. Wiencek writes.

But what they have worked to reclaim in the last decade is no less difficult: the past of this distinctive borderland, where Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Ukrainians, Belarussians, Russians and Gypsies lived together for centuries, usually in peace, though often not.

Indeed, these separations by death or violent circumstance, this wrenching away of a loved person, the way the wounds are dealt with, the degrees of success with which they are absorbed, are recurrent themes, part of that territory where the characters have their being, a borderland where identity is precarious, where dramas of loss and recovery are played out.

I was struck again by the bareness surrounding the new houses that spring up in that awkward borderland where urban sprawl meets pure country.

The Spumifers look as if they had escaped from the margins of a Medieval manuscript illumination, from a borderland where miniscule demons were sometimes allowed to cavort freely.

This delicate borderland where inside and outside coexist is precisely the realm that McElroy's fiction tries to occupy, negotiating between bruising immersion in reality and the wisdom of distance, or, as McElroy puts it in "Socrates on the Beach": "No knowledge without being in the mess of things: no idea without standing outside".