"He had once been almost fatally distracted whilst driving when a Beatles song suddenly flooded his mouth with rotting meat".
The concept of learning, the acquisition of knowledge and the exercise of creative imagination within the constraints of evidence and reason, has been almost fatally devalued.
Gardner's conducting comes and goes a bit as well, sometimes too measured and careful, so that the dramatic pulse (always slow in this opera) is almost fatally weakened, but sometimes genuinely thrilling; those peaks and troughs might well be evened out, though, as the run goes on.
For Reagan, it was being shot, almost fatally, outside the Washington Hilton just two months after his inauguration.
She was almost 7 years old when she was fatally struck by lightning at a picnic.
As comte d'Aumale he fought in Francis I's army and was wounded almost fatally at the siege of Boulogne (1545); there he received the scar that won him his byname.
From his mother's colostomy bag (she had colon cancer) to the brutal scars that tattooed his torso (he was shot, almost fatally, in June 1968), wounds figure literally in Warhol.
On June 2, 1900, during the British march on Pretoria, Burnham was wounded, almost fatally.
(Eagles and other raptors were considered to be in special peril, since so many water birds — the eagles' prey — had been killed by oil; by ingesting them the eagles were almost certain to be fatally poisoned).
