Sentences with word «hairbreadth»

After busting out of the chain gang, McGill and his companions, Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and Pete (John Turturro), endure a series of hairbreadth escapes from the forces of law and order, embodied by a sheriff who may be the Devil himself.

Michigan has not lost since January 2, when it was upset 75 - 74 by St. John's in Madison Square Garden, although many of its victories since then have appeared to be hairbreadth escapes from defeat.

The invisible side must be kept no more than a hairbreadth distant from the visible side; faith must not soar, it must modestly affirm an invisible lining to what is actually encountered.

Yzerman scored the opening goal, as he had in the first two matches, and later in the period rang a shot off the crossbar, a hairbreadth from a two - goal lead and, in all likelihood, sayonara for the Avalanche.

The challenge is to do all that while being bombarded with millions of photons from the parent star sitting some 100 million miles away — far less than a hairbreadth, from our point of view.

With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.