Sentences with phrase «on a precipice»

The south - eastern red - tailed black cockatoo stands on the precipice of extinction.
Funny, filthy and more than a little melancholy, this debut feature from writer - director Kelly Fremon Craig is incisive about the complications of a difficult teenager's difficult life as she stands on the precipice of adulthood.
With a full length album teetering on the precipice of release, PARTYBABY is setting up to make a nice splash in 2016.
Penny Hardaway has been the Memphis basketball coach for all of 24 hours, but he's already on the precipice of picking up his first major recruit.
But incredibly, Sony turned that less - than - desirable start to its advantage, and as we stand on the precipice between seventh and eighth generation consoles and take stock of the last six years, any fool can see PlayStation 3 ends the era victorious.
Schmidt (Nicholson) is getting toasted and roasted in a Midwest restaurant as the film opens, the guest of honour at his own wake, poised on the precipice of retirement and decrepitude.
Benjamin Walker proves himself an adequate choice for the role of the 16th President, and Dominic Cooper is good as Lincoln's vampire hunting mentor, but the movie always seems to be just on the precipice of embracing its comic potential, only to resist at the last minute, and in that regard, it fails pretty spectacularly in delivering the kind of B - movie guilty pleasure that its whimsical title would suggest.
Since Congress has, so far, not acted we are now on the precipice of a much more uncertain and chaotic situation in which Puerto Rico will attempt to selectively cancel debts and bondholders will seek to use the federal courts to block the Puerto Rican government from operating until it pays up.
With more power and torque, more carbon fiber, more style and more stuff, the latest CTS - V is being prepped to do battle in a luxury supersport - sedan segment dominated by German rivals that long have balanced on the precipice between stealthy tastefulness and outrageous attitude.
I'm not sure what's more hilarious, Lundgren's wonderfully sincere line delivery or the fact that all of the other actors seem on the precipice of explosive laughter.
An actor who wears her vulnerability in her every expression, she gives great depth to this character on the precipice of adulthood, learning, as she must, that to prosper in her world you need to rid yourself of human emotions and replace them with acceptably false facsimiles.
This year, we should be at PAX East showing off Penny Arcade's On the Rain - Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 and I'll be attending GDC for a few days since I've been asked to give a mini post-mortem on our work on the Precipice of Darkness series.
When I was near death I saw Theodore Roosevelt in a clown suit walking on a precipice with a small dog.
Kaminsky appears to have narrowly edged his GOP opponent, and the win on the Republicans» Long Island stronghold puts Democrats on the precipice of taking control of the Senate in November.
The Man He Never Was had an interesting blurb — a reimagined Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a Christian fiction setting where the main character Toren Daniels is a man on the precipice of disaster.
As directed by Steven Bernstein, a veteran director of photography who makes his feature film debut here, «Decoding Annie Parker» frequently dangles on the precipice of falling into Lifetime Original Movie territory.
Whether perched on a precipice over the Champs - Elysees or living the high life atop a modern skyscraper, you'll get some perspective when you visit these five sites.
Larraín has an interesting way of crafting his version of her story almost as if it's a suspense film with his central character always on the precipice of completely losing it.
It's the job of the media to inform and question and help progress issues of society rather than further stoke the flames of two parties constantly on the precipice of another horrible incident.
-- Laura Baxter (played by Julie Christie) Death and the compass An autumn garden in the English countryside, bucolic yet somehow unquiet, two children, Christine and Johnny Baxter (Sharon Williams and Nicholas Slater), gambol and play, unconsciously on the precipice of tragedy.
For Daignault, life exists on the precipice of the singularity, on the razor's edge between binaries: past and future, painting and photography, real life and screen life, 1s and 0s, existence and death.
As such, students on the precipice of their careers, armed with freshly minted degrees often shortchange their -LSB-...]
I'm on the precipice as well and appreciate hearing the logic behind your investment decision.
The bad news is every other thing that happened in a 15 - 9 loss to South Carolina that drops the Volunteers to 3 - 3 and 0 - 3 in the SEC, and puts Butch Jones» job on the precipice.
It's peculiar, Cuomo supporters say, because unlike in years past, Democrats are finally on the precipice of taking control.
Cecilia A. Conrad, leader of the fellows program, told The New York Times that the goal is to «find people on the precipice,» where the award will «make a difference, but also to inspire creativity more broadly.»
A trial was scheduled to begin on Sept. 12, but the parties have now avoided a showdown on the precipices of the release of «Silence» with a settlement.
He inherited a country on the precipice of economic hell and he is called a fascist?
This does not mean that the reader lives on the precipice all the time, for no one maintains psychologically such an intensive personal involvement.
(The latest example: FAU stole Hopson's defensive coordinator on the precipice of spring ball.)
His return helped spark a nine - game winning streak that has the franchise on the precipice of its ninth Super Bowl appearance.
One player came into the CIF North Coast Section Division II title game on the precipice of making Northern California high school football history, the other knew he had it in him.
Tucker is really on the precipice of being able to be classified as struggling... Only has a hit in one of his last seven games.
Bruce is currently under a degree of pressure himself at the KC Stadium after a defeat to bottom side Leicester City yesterday left the Tigers on the precipice of the relegation zone — and he would jump at the chance to take over the reins at the club who he grew up supporting, whilst Bruce also has a good relationship with Newcastle chief scout Graham Carr, who is a crucial part of the club's player recruitment philosophy.
Gomez, 28, has the Goddess on the precipice of European Qualification, captaining Atalanta to 32 points through 18 matches, good for sixth place.
However, that strength is resting on a precipice about as thick as pudding skin.
Owhoko, who stated this in his book entitled, Nigeria on the precipice: Issues, options, and solutions, also noted that -LSB-...]
He left New York on the precipice of economic ruin and the state GOP a shambles.
As Earth enters the Anthropocene epoch, its biodiversity wobbles on the precipice of disaster — and island species have been hit especially hard.
Using Drive Theory as a basis for their study, researchers found that it took batters significantly more time at bat when on the precipice of reaching a milestone.
«They're the ones that are just clinging on the precipice of water security, and climate change and increasing water variability just pushes them right off.»
«The survival of Mexican gray wolves is already on the precipice because of longtime federal deference to state agencies that cynically advance the livestock industry's anti-wolf agenda,» said the Center's Robinson.
Gerwig makes obvious efforts to showcase Ronan as a relatable, regular character, a young woman on the precipice of fashioning her own identity but currently stuck in a transition where her only hard - truths regard what she doesn't want.
John Hughes is gone, John Candy's gone, Macaulay Culkin's innocence is gone; because of its place on the precipice of Hughes's»90s decline, revisiting Uncle Buck has long been a bittersweet prospect, but now that it's definitively the last good John Hughes film, it's taken on the funereal feeling of old home movies starring dead relatives.
And in the second half of the picture, «Unbroken» simply sways between what feels like Zamperini on the precipice of spiritual defeat and then his second - wind of resolution, over and over again.
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