Richard Slotkin offers John Ford's classic Western "The Searchers," in which the motives of its obsessed protagonist (John Wayne) become more and more questionable -- until, on the verge of executing the niece (Natalie Wood) whom he has rescued from the Comanches, he briefly becomes the film's racist antagonist.
Afterward, she struggled in school feeling like a powerless imposter until, on the verge of quitting, an angel advisor told her, "You are not quitting.
Republicans attacked the automakers for failing to fix their business models until they were on the verge of disaster.
Lloyd said that it was because she'd had her children when she was still young, while Maggie had waited until she was on the verge of menopause.
Either you put in a specific amount and then spend it gradually -- most customers add $100 at a time, Mr. Raden said -- or you wait until you are on the verge of making a purchase, then add that exact amount.
She considered an abortion and, on a neighbour's advice, drank boiled black beer before running until she was on the verge of fainting, hoping to force a miscarriage.
You have prisoners beaten until they are on the verge of death, or hooked to overhead manacles like something out of the Inquisition, or forced to defecate on themselves, or sexually humiliated, or driven crazy by days on end of sleep deprivation and blinding lights and blaring noises, or water-boarded.
Croesus has always been morally outraged that no one ever tackles these impending crises until we are on the verge of cataclysmic danger.
"Putin has turned these two fraternal peoples against each other until they are on the verge of firing their guns".
Now she can be found sitting on men's faces and squeezing their heads until they are on the verge of popping between her Amazonian thighs.
The problem is "The Simpsons" didn't switch to that format until 2009, according to the Verge, so many of the episodes are being cropped, zoomed in on and stretched, resulting in a noticeable difference from the originals.
