Sentence examples for the verge of dissolution from inspiring English sources

Everything is on the verge of dissolution and yet so vividly present that the sunshine in the painting seems to float free and drift out into the gallery.

Then there are the shimmering New England barns, fields, and skies of our contemporary Wolf Kahn — images evoked by memory, almost on the verge of dissolution.

But the "real" — what assaults the eye before the eye begins its work of selection — is never on the verge of dissolution, still less of appropriation.

A fortnight later Mahmud II died, and the Ottoman Empire seemed on the verge of dissolution; it was saved only by European intervention.

The subject, such as it is, being neither an angel nor green but an abstract form randomly repositioned (why?), always on the verge of dissolution as a fixed image.

Tom Scutt's design also reinforces the point that the play is about the terminal exhaustion of a decadent regime: I was sorry to miss the final silhouette of the guillotine, specified in the stage-directions, but otherwise the set, with its hollow picture-frames and distressed walls, suggests suave elegance on the verge of dissolution.

Now, when big-time college sports have surrendered to a borderless disorder, the Big East has been all but poached into submission and could be on the verge of practical dissolution.

To conservatives and other supporters of order, the country seemed on the verge of total dissolution; the Carlists were immensely strengthened by the "excesses" of the Cantonalists.

The term "role" may be a bit of a stretch when it comes to describing Fedotowsky's bit in the film, which follows a woman (Blanchett) on the verge of a nervous breakdown after the dissolution of her marriage to a wealthy con man (Alec Baldwin).

With the Celtics on the verge of sliding precipitously in the East and now facing dissolution of their 2008 championship core, Allen made the smart career choice.

A Thursday report from Moody's analysts expresses doubt that the legislation truly ends Too Big To Fail, or TBTF, noting that regulators and policymakers would inevitably step in if a systemically-important firm was on the verge of collapse, since by definition such a firm's dissolution would threaten the broader financial system.