Sentence examples for without lapsing from inspiring English sources

A Christian could not have a cyclical notion of time without lapsing into heresy.

This tendency, without lapsing excessively into national stereotypes, is true of Pakistani cricket of all standards.

DeWitt traces such screwball extravaganzas without lapsing into I'm-mad-me zaniness.

It's to Chandor's credit that he contrives an ending that is both graceful and dramatic without lapsing into melodramatics.

So I resolved, instead, to eat at as many as I comfortably could without lapsing into a frankfurter-induced coma.

Mr. Hersch's own "Endless Stars" achieved a high level of reflective jazz impressionism without lapsing into twiddling, new-age vagueness.

Without ever lapsing into sentimentality, Guys and Dolls manages to be knowing and yet wholly and fundamentally, uncynical.

Robbie, 24, is endearingly candid without ever lapsing into the kind of indiscretion that would induce palpitations in her publicist.

The recipient of generally warm reviews, it contained anthemic songs without ever lapsing into stadium rock by numbers.

Holt's book, in which there is no difference between personal and political betrayal, vividly conjures the anxieties of the Cold War without ever lapsing into nostalgia.

Reviewing it in the Observer, Elizabeth Day praised the way Frayn "evokes emotion without ever lapsing into bathos, threading sentences through with a gentle, touching humour".