| With his silent pantomime and human special effect stature, the performance borders on the right side of genius. |
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| Still, the fascination of the Scottish press with whether she is up the duff borders on obsession. |
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| And it borders on the unenthralling to have the conversation at social gatherings turn to slugs and cabbageworms the minute I show up. |
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| In the four men, this precision borders on caricature, although Abby comes across with strong humanity. |
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| The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess. |
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| Fighting for the Future, for all its provocative arguments and pithy language, sometimes borders on the apocalyptic. |
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| What Johnny Nevin and Johnny Kavanagh have been asked to do, as amateurs, in recent weeks borders on cruelty. |
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| Some may, indeed, be rascals when out on the town, but the extent of grooms' devotion to their horses often borders on the obsessive. |
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| Quality Control gets points for originality though, and not the kind that borders on gimmick to hold it all together. |
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| Stripped of the atmospheric fuzz, his music is so expansive and complex that it borders on symphonic. |
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| It is not only unorthodox but also inhuman and borders on the violation of human rights. |
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| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
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| The comments are your usual online argument that even borders on Godwin's Law, yah, whatever! |
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| Her behavior borders on the grossly unethical, reporting lie after lie to serve her friends. |
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| For some children starting kindergarten is an exciting adventure, for others the experience borders on the terrifying. |
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| Countering accusations of dullness, the insurer's job often borders on the surreal. |
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| Now, 20 years after his death, the people of that intense, teeming, vibrant place still hold him in a regard which borders on deification. |
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| I live in a ground-floor flat with a small garden which has flower borders on three sides. |
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| If Auchter seems equivocal, the GED Testing Service website borders on the deceptive. |
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| His refusal to give de Valera credit for his international diplomacy in the 1930s borders on the absurd. |
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| Although the unpleasant encounter is over, I have been puzzling over the cause of this gentleman's behaviour, which borders on rudeness. |
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| What this creates, then, is teacher dominance that borders on dictatorship. |
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| It's littered with anachronism and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes. |
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| Not that I object to the use per se, but that there is a carelessness that borders on disregard for the actual content. |
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| It borders on the absurd for the mourner to dance gleefully while his parent lies dead in a fresh grave. |
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| Administrative and political life is corrupt, and the bureaucracy often borders on the absurd. |
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| Filled with his patented dry wit and funny observations, this track often borders on hysterical. |
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| The idea that raw-milk cheese poses a public-health menace in the same category as cigarettes borders on the absurd. |
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| But the real problems are a static production and the script, which borders on the theatrically illiterate. |
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| This album happens to be progressive, evolving into a unique form of punk that borders on grunge. |
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| The barista announces each one in a ceremonial style that borders on the religious and in a language only fully understood by true initiates. |
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| On the other hand, you see this fundamentalism that sort of borders on extremism. |
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| I think it borders on the fawning, but provides a useful portrait nonetheless. |
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| His privacy is his most treasured possession, an obsession that borders on maniacal. |
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| Take me for example. I am a confirmed bibliophile, but I also have a strong respect for books that borders on bibliolatry. |
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| The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust. |
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| Like free jazz, minimal techno is defined by an inaccessibility that borders on divisiveness. |
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| Any team that relentlessly jacks up trifectas even as it sinks one of every four boasts a confidence that borders on hubris. |
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| We were seated by the window in a dining room that borders on frou-frou, but nonetheless maintains an elegant feel. |
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| The country has a 1200 km Mediterranean coastline and borders on six countries to the west, east, and south. |
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| Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous. |
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| Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin. |
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| With a single-mindedness that borders on the maniacal, the substitute decides to get to the city somehow and bring the boy back. |
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| There is of course many a slip twixt the cup and the lip but really it borders on the impossible to visualise them slipping up this time. |
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| The humour is consistent right from the start and nearly always borders on ridiculous, which is a nice parry to the action. |
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| Too much liberty of this kind savours of a luxuriant ungovernable fancy and borders on enthusiasm. |
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| Here, representationalism borders on musical Impressionism, a concept Wagner discussed with Auguste Renoir. |
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| In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. |
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| The Interlake: This region borders on Lake Winnipeg to the east and Lake Manitoba to the west. |
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| His dress borders on the flamboyant yet never digresses to gaudiness. |
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| The road from the guard gate to the recruit depot, the publicly accessible part of the base, is built up from the swampland that borders on both sides. |
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| The Film allows you to put film negative borders on your video, that it looks like a long film strip with perforations along each frame. |
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| Sung in Eno's newfound lower register, its melody has a vaguely folk-ballad cast, but its repetitiousness borders on monotony. |
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| Ms. Jocelyne Couture: What is stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court is so banal that, in my opinion, it borders on vacuousness. |
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| In the case of the minister, it is a kind of paternalism that borders on contempt, dictating to Quebeckers what is good for them. |
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| As this is a distance punch it is possible to punch out of the middle of a card, but punching lace-like borders on the border is also possible. |
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| Eager as they are to buy art, Russians exhibit a desire for discretion that borders on secretiveness. |
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| Not only is it disrespectful of Mr. Cadman's memory, but it borders on being untruthful. |
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| A political gamble for its inhabitants, a myth for its visitors, Jerusalem remains a universal object of desire that borders on fetishism. |
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| Thousands of Salvadorans blocked highways, bridges and borders on October 12, 2002, to protest the planned construction of a huge beltway superhighway around the capital. |
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| A couple of glasses of Tom's peapod wine and they're merrily slurring compliments at each other in a way that often borders on risqué. |
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| His heel bleeds — giving the sense that his fearless, improvisatory approach borders on self-abuse. |
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| Mr Bashir faces a south anxious for independence, an election in April and conflict in the western region of Darfur that borders on Chad. |
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| Attempting to continue to do everything, even when funding has faded away, has verged on the heroic, but now borders on the irresponsible. |
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| The municipality of Chanteloup-en-Brie already enjoys the momentum stemming from the Montévrain eco-neighbourhood it borders on. |
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| It borders on the Atlantic Ocean on the east side, and also borders on all of the South American countries, except for Ecuador and Chile. |
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| China borders on fourteen countries in Asia, including India, Vietnam, Russia and North Korea. |
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| It borders on the Blata region to the north while Austria and Germany lie to the south. |
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| What he possesses in spades is a respect that borders on veneration. |
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| Our mentality borders on extreme: just satisfying a customer's expectations isn't good enough. |
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| All of the countries have borders on the Black Sea and are traversed by mountains. |
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| Ghanaian soccer player Michael Essien, who plays for ac Milan, has been the subject of what borders on fear mongering. |
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| As an adulthood now living out his passion, his dedication sometimes borders on obsession. |
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| To the north, Jowzjan borders on the amu Darya River and Turkmenistan, a former part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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| His apparent absorption in his own thoughts borders on the rude. |
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| Martin's presumptuous and unproven speculation borders on the absurd. |
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| Due to serial online pranking which borders on civil disobedience, the wealthy Efram is expelled from multiple schools. |
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| John offers a constant and persistent whine that borders on sedition. |
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| Their silk and lambswool blanket has silk borders on all four sides. |
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| The opening sequence borders on magic realism in its surreal progression from the plausible, to the credibility-straining, to over-the-top mayhem. |
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| The digital video work looks a little rough here and there and the action borders on farce, but Tadpole has plenty of fun and sent me out of the cinema smiling. |
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| The first half is painfully slow and borders on ridiculous in some parts. |
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| Her performance, which is incredibly endearing, borders on the miraculous. |
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| That aside, though, the language used here borders on kneejerk. |
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| Personally, I have a news habit that possibly borders on obsession. |
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| We have no neighbors in the back as our backyard borders on the railroad easement, the east of our house is neighborless with 40 acres of wooded land owned by the county. |
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| Favoring the palette knife over the brush, the artist applies and scrapes away paint on his modestly sized canvases with an intensity that borders on the obsessive. |
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| Most of their affectionate banter borders on the painful humiliating putdown, with Jamie loving to imitate Paul's manic mannerisms behind his back. |
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| Exceptionally beautiful and moving are the colored engravings of tomb and temple murals and inscriptions, not yet understood but limned with fidelity that borders on mediumistic possession. |
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| From some perspectives, the walkout borders on the irrational. |
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| The political and social unrest that borders on paranoia in the Berlin of 1936 is the background for this thriller. |
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| Sometimes, my style borders on ethnographical filmmaking. |
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| It became the cornerstone of her practice, removing all distraction, infusing the finished work with a singularity and focus that borders on purity. |
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| Owing to its peninsular nature, most of the region borders on ocean to the north, the west and partly to the south, heightening the impact of its peripheral location. |
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| In some cases, the description of scientific principles in the introduction has been so oversimplified that it borders on being incorrect. |
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| Even the borders on the word processed handout or problem set can be set so that the typing on the page takes up this golden section ratio. |
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| Previous operations have demonstrated that they also contribute to prevention of loss of life at sea whilst people are trying desperately to cross the maritime borders on un-seaworthy boats. |
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| Obviously, she needs allies, but a disdain for deal-making that borders on arrogance has so far prevented her from getting them. That is not her only shortcoming. |
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| Their self-absorption borders on narcissism. |
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| That no meetings were scheduled subverted the will of the Senate, and as such is an indictment of the government that borders on contempt of Parliament. |
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| One problem that is extremely vexatious to the public is that of international roaming, for they still incur far too many charges when phoning across borders on mobiles. |
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| The story of Luranah, Ira's most gifted child, borders on tragedy. |
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| Sierra Leoneans can be faulted for acquiescing to suppression and dictatorship from successive governments, because of a fatalist attitude which borders on fear of freedom. |
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| The Scherzo is one of the most energetic and exhilarating movements Dvorák ever wrote, and borders on the virtuosic as well for the dazzling orchestral display it entails. |
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| To be convinced of this, it suffices to consider his typographic approach, which almost always borders on the limit of apparently coming undone: he truncates letters, modifies spaces, creates rhythms. |
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| The taster who discovers a fine 1961 for the first time will be surprised and seduced by its consistence and its unctuousness that almost borders on liquor qualities. |
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| Now he speaks of both Lemmon and Pacino with a humour and warmth that borders on veneration, giving a glimpse of the Spacey who once was, and to some extent still is, the nerdiest of theatre fans. |
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| To claim that the adoption of the motion by the House will in any way whatsoever give the Quebec National Assembly some kind of legitimacy it does not already have borders on navel-gazing and egocentricity. |
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| Furthermore, a scaleable area measuring over 100,000 m2 net overall surface area will host businesses, some of which will be able to work in synergy with the scientific and technical centre that borders on the site. |
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| What is also worrying is the increasingly hostile discourse held by some public figures, which borders on and sometimes falls squarely under the category of hate speech. |
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| In addition to displaying an economic incompetence that borders on innumeracy, these matters also raise questions about honesty and judgement. |
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| The final aspect involved inter-country coordination, training and policies to maximise the benefits of working across borders on a regional project, and reduce the long waits at border crossings. |
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| A guess: whoever lives here carries the baggage of inherited wealth, displays an anxious striving to be modern and distinguish himself, and is burdened with a repressive finickiness that borders on the fastidious. |
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| Is not life of the towns, farms and ranches of Alberta more vital to us than the mountain scenery which merely borders on one side of the province? |
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| It is not easy to support each other in times of adversity without being judgemental, without developing a tolerance that borders on indifference. |
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| Due to this expansion, modern Surrey also borders on the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Sutton, Croydon and Bromley. |
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| To assert that the idea of individual freedom is foreign and, therefore, not compatible with Arab cultural and religious beliefs borders on racialism. |
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| Barilli noted a 5 millimeter variegated macule with irregular borders on Susan's right deltoid and a 1 centimeter brown hazy macule with surrounding erythema. |
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