Sentence examples for the edge of language from inspiring English sources
It's an urge to communicate, even commune, that one can readily sympathize with, and Mr. Berliner's film bravely brings us to the edge of language and experience.
They were making sounds like Noa made, a guttural growl hovering on the edge of language, the kind of sound that made Noa's father, Jim Ospenson, yearn all the more to hear her voice.
(I've often felt that starting out at the edge of the language, so to speak, was a blessing in disguise, because it gives you an awareness of words that is different from that of the native speaker, who, like Huckleberry Finn, may not think of, say, "glove" as one of the possible words for the thing but rather as the thing itself).
Courts can twiddle with the edges of statutory language, but only Congress can rewrite broken laws.
On the edge of China, with a different language, legal system and values from those of the mainland, its politics have grown rough of late.
He is frugal with language, skirting the edge of poetic practices like Dada but still remaining fairly straightforward.
Banners in Dari, one of the official Afghan languages, around the edge of the large tents were critical of the government: "The international community should not support Karzai for deals with the Taliban;" "Don't step on our national interest by making deals with the Taliban;" "Every government organ is screaming with corruption, let's root it out".
It's a kind of compacting of metaphor, without a concern for making sense... it's just on the edge of sense and on the edge of the way language should operate".
