Sentences with phrase «over the precipice»

Smaller and mid-sized works like New Mexico, If You Want Blood and Morning invite us to peer over precipices into an undulating abyss of rich textures and color.

This is where you will find the Augrabies Falls, which thunders over the precipice of a granite gorge, offering spectacular scenery as well as rich bird life and small game.

As I peered over the precipice, I felt thankful that I had given up downhill skiing when I was 14.

But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.

You place yourself in the hands of strangers who ask you to do foolhardy things, like walk backwards over a precipice with nothing but a rope around your waist or climb a sheer rock face with your fingers and toes.

Apparently we are all about to go over the precipice together.

«It was only a year ago that the world was looking over a precipice and Britain was in danger,» Brown said.

A fish can swim near the edge and safely slip away — unless it gets too close, in which case it will be dragged over the precipice no matter how hard it resists.

The first California condors to enter the wild in five years took a few hesitant hops on a sandstone cliff, craned pinkish necks over the precipice and tentatively tested their nine - foot - plus wings.

«Japan in crisis» screams the newspaper headline, alongside cartoons of a bullet train rushing headlong over a precipice and a hysterical «salariman» committing hara - kiri.

He builds on his roots as the sensitive, nervous, introverted kid, who then tips over the precipice into a maelstrom of violence.

There's more room for manoeuvre, but spend too long leaning over the precipice and you're tempting fate.

Just imagine the thundering roar of the 275 waterfalls cascading over a precipice almost two miles wide and 250 feet deep!

The roar of rushing water that builds louder as you approach; the sheer power as a river plunges over the precipice and downwards into a deep pool below.

You can also use a softer pull to use the lightning arc like a rope to dangle and swing over precipices, or change the direction of your jumps and dashes.

About fifteen miles uphill from the town of Catskill on the Hudson River, Kaaterskill creek drops dramatically over a precipice and into a basin that forms a hidden pool, then falls again over a second tier before continuing to tumble a bit more gently down towards the Hudson River.

Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat was recently asked by Past Chief Planner Paul Bedford when did she think she would push too far and step over the precipice; She mused that she would find out when she did.

Plus I wasted 45 minutes power - walking to an inspection of a house on a busy road with a pool built precariously over a precipice that Husband will never let us buy, despite it being a total bargain.

The slashing attack of Krasner's painting finds stiff echoes in Brice Marden's «6 (Course)» (1987 - 88), which immediately follows it, introducing a room in which we see Marden's linear compositions turn fluid, though not nearly as fluid as a Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) from 1983 - done at or over the precipice of his descent into senile dementia.