Sentences with phrase «dangling by a thread»

The appearance of James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry has left Jeremy Hunt's career dangling by a thread and raised serious questions about the behaviour of the government.

That all explains why he dangles by a thread.

Not exact matches

It would certainly help to cheer us fans up after the recent poor run of results has left our title hopes dangling by the proverbial thread.

Relationships dangle by a tenuous thread.

Pilar is visibly moved by what's on screen, but we never see it, hearing only a Portuguese cover of «Be My Baby» on the soundtrack — a thread left dangling only to be gingerly picked up in the second half.

The script, by Miller and co-writer Katie Anne Naylon, reeks of rewrites, with scenes and jokes ending abruptly and certain plot threads left dangling.

Destiny tends to throw a heaping helping of word salad at you in between missions, though much of it is narrated by Ghost, containing more «to be continued» dangling plot threads than a season of Lost.

With their bulbous folds of flesh, like an obscene enveloping pregnancy, she dangles precariously by a wire thread across each medium.

The archive allowed me to situate Smithson in an historical moment and to think about how such a model might be useful for artists now; Smithson left many threads dangling which need to be taken up by other artists and developed.