Sentences with phrase «of a precipice»

Gary stands on the edge of the precipice of Brigitte's mind and stares intently into the chasm... straining in vain to see anything resembling form or definition.

I had a vivid recollection of a reoccurring childhood nightmare where I would find myself on the brink of a precipice looking across a giant chessboard.

Niebuhr concluded that while «the Lutheran side of the Reformation always walks on the edge of the precipice of superamoralism, not to say antinomianism, the Calvinistic Reformation is imperiled by the opposite danger of a new moralism and legalism.

For instance, there's that one with the cat clinging to the edge of a precipice with the caption «Hang in there!»

Four years after losing his mother, Ben (voice of David Rawle) and his little sister Saoirse (voice of Lucy O'Connell), who has never spoken a word, still live with their father (voice of Brendan Gleeson) in a lighthouse at the top of a precipice overlooking the sea.

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There are those moments when you stand at the foot of the precipice, or on top of a mountain, and before you is a sight never to be forgotten.

The mystical falls are the perfect place to take ground - to - sky pictures with a wide lens so you can get the waterfall in frame as well as the backdrop of the precipice with the sky behind it.

The gallery, with two sets of stairs running at longitude and latitude through the space, has an architecture that felt like a type of precipice of sorts, a division between spaces that one has to integrate into, step up and onto.

It says nothing about people rushing to stoke the engine with more and more coal, or how much actual coal is added (thus the actual range of speeds to expect), or the possibility of a precipice with bridge out up ahead (runaway GW), how dangerous that might be at various speeds, entailing greater or less number of deaths, or how far or close that precipice is, which we don't know either (except we have some fossil evidence of train wrecks in which 90 % of life died, so we know it could be bad).

Mid-sized law firms in the UK are on the edge of a precipice in terms of the opportunities for growth presented in today's marketplace.

Once again the United States walked right to the brink of the precipice but then stepped back.

The last time I dreamt of unicorns I was teetering at the edge of the precipice of great change.

It takes courage to engage this system and just crawl over the edge of a precipice with your foot off the brake, but it will not fail you.

presidential race represents a «terrible choice», but he has (along with a handful of other high - profile US evangelicals) chosen to publicly back Trump, believing Clinton will send America teetering over the edge of the precipice.

«Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head... but because humanity is devoid of those vital values for its healthy development and real progress,» he wrote.

When asked what lesson he wanted to pass on to other Christians and other pastors, this man answered, «When you stop walking with God, you are walking on the edge of a precipice.»

It's got to be for a purpose, and the purpose in 2010 was to rescue a British economy which was teetering on the edge of a precipice.

When you stop walking in the belief of the imminent return of Jesus Christ, you are walking on the edge of a precipice.

Given the current US situation, another joke comes to mind: «In 1945 [the year communists took over power] Poland was standing on the edge of a precipice.

«The current state sponsored insecurity is pushing Nigeria off the brink of the precipice and the NCEF is surprised that educated people in the North are unable to read the handwriting on the wall,» the statement explained.

At his event today, the former frontbencher said the Labour party was «teetering on the brink of a precipice».

We ask that these discussions today be as frank as possible because in situations like this, unless the National Assembly rises like one man, with a conscience, commitment and patriotism, to unveil the facade of partisan politics, partisan advantages, and face the real issues we stand of the edge of a precipice.

«It played brash, aggressive moves — it walked on the edge of a precipice,» Scheaffer anthropomorphizes.

Basically, you climb off the edge of the precipice and increase your adaptive range.

Now it's time to face the edge of the precipice and put together all that you've learned about moving forward with balance and skill.

The main characters move inexorably, helplessly toward disillusionment and alienation even as they seem to be always standing in more or less the same spot: at the edge of a precipice.

The same jumble of ledges and boulders, but this time they are along the side of a precipice.

Miraflores, one of the most exclusive districts, residential and commercial Lima, «City of Kings» is an eclectic mix of modern and historical.The Miraflores Park Hotel, with only 82 rooms, is a small boutique hotel, set in a park on the edge of a precipice that lets the sea provides almost all the rooms a stunning ocean view.

The massive coral outcrops rising up from the ledge at the very edge of the precipice are covered in a splendid gorgonian forest.

There's the time you hop into a giant ice - skate, and trace lines in the ice as you try to send a skating rival off the edge of the precipice.

Currently, the exhibition's description is a quote from Bradford: «Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

Detail of MARK BRADFORD, «Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

«Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice.

«It doesn't mean Alberta households are on the edge of a precipice, because they do earn more still than Canadians in other regions of the country.