Sentences with word «hairsbreadth»

Riveting battle scenes, scantily clad women, mathematical puzzles, mysteries of the pharaohs, reckless heroism, hairsbreadth escapes and undaunted courage add up to unbeatable adventure rivaling the exploits of George Macdonald Fraser's Harry Flashman.»

The Buffalo News: «The state of New York, through its intolerable foot - dragging, has shut down the RiverBend project once and come within a hairsbreadth of doing it twice.

A few weeks later, the show finishes with a flourish, as Venus attains maximum brilliance while performing a hairsbreadth conjunction with Mars.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

Again the apocalypse is just a hairsbreadth away in this tale from a dying planet.

They sit in neat rows, separated by broad, oily fields of off - white, only a hairsbreadth from Philip Guston's smooth pinks.

««Gap» wall installation» curves a hairsbreadth away from the wall, recalling just how close the old and new Bay Bridge come to touching.