Sentences with phrase «edge of the abyss»

In his best works, Brodie was able to coax an image right up to edge of the abyss of sentimentality and not let it fall in.

In Calgary, United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney said the court reference is one more delay tactic in a pipeline project that is already on the edge of an abyss.

«Yes, my dear,» one is inclined to say, «we see you playing on the edge of the abyss.

In spite of these voices in the wilderness, the main drift of American society is to the edge of the abyss.

Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

We may live on the edge of the Abyss, but we are not without our comforts.

We live on the edge of an abyss, and at any moment our private securities may be swallowed in the world - wide insecurity.

Western humanity has talked its way right to the edge of the abyss — so, please, be silent now.

When Game 5 was over — Odgers would be amply supported in the 3 - 0 home win by goalie Patrick Roy, who had 36 saves, and the impeccable Peter Forsberg, who had a goal and an assist — the previously left - for - dead Colorado led the series 3 - 2 and two - time defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit was on the edge of the abyss.

He is teetering on the edge of the abyss, a disgraced end to a career filled with skin deep success.

They stand at the edge of the abyss and all they see is the darkness below.

The film's challenging, somewhat flawed second half transforms Charley from working - class kid with a father, a semi-stable life and some pocket money to a young man, on the edge of the abyss.

Worse, Braff, who is in love with his visuals, doesn't ultimately have enough faith in them, over-writing the conclusion (staged in an ark on the edge of an abyss, à la the Polish Brothers» also - overwritten Northfork) to such an extent that it's funnier than it is existentially poignant.

She is so wrapped up in her own troubles, however, that she hasn't the faintest idea how to ask for help, and may have moved too far over the edge to realize she's on the edge of an abyss.

Her performance is exquisitely unhinged, playing Jasmine as if she's forever dancing on the edge of the abyss.

• Krabat: Leading his apprentice to the edge of an abyss, a black - robed sorcerer steps off, folding into the form of a soaring raven....

But on the edge of the abyss, through a vision of his mother (Mother?)

Using what he calls the technique of «literary non-fiction,» French weaves an exceptionally detailed, rich tapestry in this gripping story of the people, places and atmosphere of a city on the edge of an abyss.

Ruby is a lost cause — on the edge of an abyss.

These vertical faces can seem even more dramatic when they are discovered after negotiating the confines of a narrow sand chute to emerge on the edge of the abyss.

Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow: Reverie ($ 9.99) The «Revervie» DLC pack follows the events of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Gabriel Belmont stands on the edge of an abyss contemplating his fate.

On the edge of the abyss, one step forward!

Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss: Abstraction by African American Women Artists in The Cochran Collection

Juxtaposing the natural and synthetic, Hapaska's meticulously crafted work presents a world on the edge of the abyss, but also on the edge of possibility.

She joins the past and the present, repairs what she sees as incomplete and, in the eyes of Huyssen, presents «memory at the edge of an abyss... memory in the literal sense... and memory as process.»

This is not the time to be making political platitudes while the institution is at the edge of the abyss.

«Nothing warms the cockles of the developer's heart like having a retailer return from the edge of the abyss and become a viable candidate as an anchor again,» says Michael McCarty, senior vice president with Simon Property Group Inc. in Indianapolis.