In fact, the entire house is an image, a duplicated, living image of itself and its occupants, whose stairs we tramp, whose thresholds we cross or recoil from, whose basements we crawl about in - not once, but twice.
"He used work as a weapon to shield himself from a boredom whose threshold was extremely low.
He then proposed to attack Granada, despite reminders that this would antagonize the kingdom of Castile, on whose threshold it lay.
More than 3,500 mourners filled the cathedral, whose walls echoed with the hymns and speeches celebrating the eternal life on whose threshold the faithful believe Cardinal O'Connor now stands.
Anyone whose threshold of pain and embarrassment is very high – or their cupboard of cooking implements extremely bare – may want to take part in Can't Touch This, a new BBC Saturday night game-show that begins tomorrow.
It is tempting to dismiss the fuss about the Whitsun battle of the beaches as the exaggerated reaction of a society which has too few problems to worry about and whose threshold of indignation is too low.
Ultimately, the poet comes with fear, anticipation and black humour to a particular "Room in April": "Somewhere a room whose threshold I must cross / has been prepared: an oxytocin drip / waits with the gas and air and suture tray / beside a snow-white bed.
Ms. Breillat takes pains to humanize Bluebeard and to show what she believes is real love between him and his young wife; her Bluebeard, for example, treats his virginal 14-year-old bride with paternal affection, allowing her to sleep alone in the one room in the castle whose threshold is literally too narrow for his girth.
Bcl10 filament formation is a highly cooperative process whose threshold is sensitized by oligomerized CARMA1 upon receptor activation.
The message transmitted by the source is decoded at the relay, whose threshold is satisfied in the first phase.
an optimized irregular LDPC code reported in [17], whose threshold is –-about dB away from the AWGN capacity -and whose degree profile is (4).
