| Any team that relentlessly jacks up trifectas even as it sinks one of every four boasts a confidence that borders on hubris. |
| Stripped of the atmospheric fuzz, his music is so expansive and complex that it borders on symphonic. |
| Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous. |
| It is not only unorthodox but also inhuman and borders on the violation of human rights. |
| Not that I object to the use per se, but that there is a carelessness that borders on disregard for the actual content. |
| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
