Sentence examples for verge upon from inspiring English sources

Then off the eye flies to the whiteness verge upon verge.

To say that the later portraits verge upon caricature is not much of an overstatement.

I wonder — oh, what will you think of me — if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

That Obama was heckled during the speech was surprising enough; that he was heckled by a group of black protesters holding a sign that read "What About the Black Community, Obama?" seemed, at first glance, to verge upon the surreal.

Like John Cheever, Spencer has imagined for his suburban dreamers and infatuated lovers melodramatic crises that verge upon the surreal; like John Updike, Spencer is a poet-celebrant of Eros, lyrically precise in his descriptions of lovers' fantasies, lovers' lovemaking, lovers' bodies.

In both novels, the protagonists must navigate their sexuality, even as they in some measure exhibit physical traits that verge upon or merge with disability issues.

There is some sullenness, some verging-upon-tears.

It's patriotism which verges upon nationalism if encouraged.

China, in Dugin's perverse view, verges upon being an Atlanticist factotum.

Throughout "Love, Etc.," we see him verging upon, then succumbing to, depression.

All such works verged upon caricature in the narrow personal sense; some were caricature in a broad sense.