| Stuart MacGill, Warne's replacement, is a perfectly-good bowler, but he struggled, so much so that his body language often verged on despair. |
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| This was a shame, because the show had a fine cast and scripts that occasionally verged on the brilliant. |
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| This is not yet treasonable talk, though it verged close enough for Eliot to be sent to the Tower. |
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| The last man, the fifth, took notice of the boy's icy glare, took interest and then verged off his path. |
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| And while I verged on breaking down, I was roped into, very much against my will, a scheme to entrap Alison's husband. |
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| Those movies wanted us to see her as a Pre-Raphaelite figure but she verged on a Walter Keane waif. |
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| It inspired a level of devotion from its fans that verged on the religious. |
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| But another starter of vegetarian spring rolls was soggy and their sweet-and-sour dip verged on the sickly. |
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| He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche. |
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| As we were exposed to the elements much more than usual, makeup verged on impractical, as a friend who went off on a hike and returned with streaming panda eyes attested. |
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| After Thatcher toppled him, his incapacity to do or say the right thing verged on high comedy. |
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| This may appear to have been a rather bizarre choice for Olivia, whose musical tastes verged more on indie rock than glitzy mainstream pop. |
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| With the cold war at its chilliest, his anti-communism was acceptable, even though it verged on parody. |
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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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| For instance, in his first report, selective inattention often verged on the irresponsible. |
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| Mr Nassauer's speech verged on equating the volume of legislation with the amount of bureaucracy. |
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| Incitement to division has emerged as a feature of the political discourse reported by the media and rhetoric at times verged on inflammatory. |
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| Nigeria reacted strongly, saying that the offer, assumed to target Charles Taylor, verged on state-sponsored terrorism. |
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| Rangel's last gambits verged on the absurd and detracted from his remaining dignity. |
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| The remarks to the Security Council by the normally reserved Ban verged on outrage and despair. |
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| Day after day I trace a pleasant, safe path into and out of nice little towns and villages, along soft verged roads and through gentle, rolling landscapes down to a calm sea. |
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| In the studio, however, her perfectionism verged on control freakery. |
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| Some of the uses suggested to developers last week verged on creepy. |
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| During an interview, the Master of the MADELINOT WAR LORD commented on his sense that the tow was risky and that he felt it verged on the edge of disaster on several occasions. |
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| We all witnessed the pronounced interest of the European organisations, which verged on the coercion of Ireland, and which was backed up with corresponding levels of funding. |
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| A botched center-right leadership election on Nov. 18 verged on slapstick. |
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| Notts, along with Somerset, were one of only two counties who could theoretically overhaul Durham, but their catalogue of disasters verged on the comic. |
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| His behavior these last 48 hours has verged on, if not been, petulant. |
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| Indeed, the limited financial integration of African economies shielded the African financial system from collapsing, as no banks or other non-bank financial institutions verged on bankruptcy. |
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| Other groups of artists expressed feelings that verged on the mystical, many largely abandoning classical drawing and proportions. |
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| These definitions, however, can be very subjective, in that we found that some facilities would characterise themselves as job shops, whereas their production runs certainly verged on production shop numbers. |
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| Even by the rough-and-tumble standards of Georgian politics, his conduct has verged beyond what is acceptable. Mr Saakashvili has fared little better. |
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