Sentences with phrase «fragile precipice»

Katharina Fritsch's work navigates the fragile precipice between reality and fiction.

Hargeisa, Somalia, was balanced on a fragile precipice in the fall of 1987 — held in the grip of a powerful dictatorship, with signs of revolution emerging with ever - increasing frequency.

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Like many of the children, she's alert to times when other children are too fragile to sustain the give - and - take of repartee; and when, as often happens at the after - school, one of the younger children suddenly begins to cry, or seems to be right at the precipice of tears, she switches gears almost immediately.

This section, in which Cindy goes from devastated (The tears do come a bit quickly) to scheming for guardianship of Leo with the help of a lawyer (Margo Martindale), is the film's most fragile, teetering on the precipice of falling into the trap of unnecessary conflict.

Hijacking a phrase from The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard's first science fiction novel and one of his London - based dystopic tales, Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden portrays the world we live in today: on the precipice but hopeful for a less fragile future.