Sentence examples for though perilously from inspiring English sources

Its own rocket, though, perilously lacking thrust, stands a chance of making it only it if its crew is reduced to a single cosmonaut – and the celebrated Yuri Gagarin is dead, killed on a training flight in his MiG-15.

Conducting me around the place, she noted a pair of poetic, though perilously narrow, footbridges Johnson had erected across cuts in the landscape; a treacherous stair sculpture designed in 1985 as a monument to Lincoln Kirstein; even an innocuous-looking houseplant in a pot alongside his desk.

By doing it in this book, though, McCleen perilously weakens her argument.

Wiltons, though, is perilously expensive, and I am currently broke (this, perhaps, is another sign of my inherent ordinariness).

There was talk yesterday of a big new constitutional offer to try to keep the Scots in the Union, though it feels perilously late for that.

Cameron avoided the most hackneyed — the need "to punch above its weight" – though he came perilously close with the pledge that "we strive to be more than the sum of our parts".

Over the course of a long career, I've occasionally cried in the office, but only in privacy, never where anyone could see me, though I came perilously close once or twice.

Something like Sharp Objects, even though it often danced perilously close to the edge of self-parody, lasted for weeks and weeks.

Though the movie sounds perilously twee, "Griff the Invisible" works as a slice of emotional life for the most part because of its lead performances (and despite a late lecture about how the kooks are all right).

In fact, as this enjoyably rambunctious memoir makes clear, his name is actually neither Daphne nor Arthur, but Brian - though he did come perilously close to being professionally known as Captain Wanker.

The flames did not reach the buildings of the Alley Pond Environmental Center or the oak and beech forests that make up most of the 654-acre preserve, though they did come perilously close to a row of houses on a hill above the marsh.