The reaction from some parents, though, verged on the lackadaisical.
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They were unspecific and often verged on terrifying the poor guy.
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"Absolutely not!" he said, with a look that verged on repulsion.
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Many of us verged on tears remembering our own wives and girlfriends.
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They were so skeptical about form that they verged on Kawakubo territory.
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At times, White House officials said, Mr. Tillerson's behavior verged on insubordination.
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Her hair was a shade of 'mousy brown,' and verged on being frizzy.
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For much of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister verged on all-out villainy.
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"I'm panicking, I'm shaking right now," said Ms. Atienza, who verged on tears.
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The surreal Trump's demeanor suggested defiance on Wednesday but also verged on the surreal.
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He was unapologetic during the campaign for comments that critics said verged on incitement.
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Ted Cruz and Donald Trump had a mutual admiration society that verged on a bromance.
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Kenya verged on all-out inter-ethnic violence after a disputed election in December 2007.
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To McMaster and his colleagues, Mattis's apparent attempts to limit Trump's options verged on insubordination.
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In some cases, Purdue Pharma's marketing verged on the sinister and even crossed into the illegal.
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The production, directed by Stafford Arima in a broad storybook style, included some performances that verged on caricature.
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Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)This weekend, a Twitter user shared a disturbing story that verged on the surreal.
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Jeff Bezos earlier this month revealed a vision for human settlements in space that verged on science fiction.
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Wanda has so enthusiastically followed Beijing's message of instilling national pride that other attractions sometimes verged on propaganda.
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Unfortunately, on many occasions, Sanders' speaking delivery verged on yelling, a choice that simply doesn't suit him well.
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His voice's warmth didn't quiet carry to the top of his range, and one outburst verged on barking.
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But the new streaming platform doesn't really do Miranda any favors: Ballinger's viral parody has always verged on callous.
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The material verged on filmy, and the collar looked as if moths had just departed after a long winter.
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The mood in the rehearsal room verged on the giddy, enhanced — maybe — by the Skittles on the snack table.
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At one point, though, he wondered aloud whether the drift of the questions verged on disrespect toward the Knicks' players.
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Mr. Clean, the bald and buff cartoon face of the brand, has always verged on being an American sex symbol.
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Their work verged on exploration, barely more than fifty years after John Wesley Powell had first surveyed the same places.
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In 20163, Republicans proposed changes when the scholarship verged on insolvency like, for instance, requiring a higher GPA for recipients.
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The morning smelled of wet grass and something heavier, some tree in flower, a fecund smell that verged on rottenness.
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According to the Associated Press, the trove of FBI files also suggest Lanza had views about children that verged on pedophilia.
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It verged on caricature—Roy Rogers on a rearing horse, on top of a New York taxi in rush-hour traffic.
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With 22012 percent of the results in, Pete Buttigieg maintained a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders that verged on a tie.
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With 19703 percent of the results in, Pete Buttigieg maintained a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders that verged on a tie.
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His final works included billowing garments called Parangolés that functioned as wearable sculptures and installation pieces that often verged on architecture.
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Mr Obama was more of a Wilsonian than a neo-Wilsonian; his idealism tempered by a cool realism that verged on cynicism.
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The sound in the hall was powerful and controlled — a good thing, because this verged on a post-performer kind of show.
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It said the video, during which the singer offered to pay hotel costs for street children in Liberia, verged on "poverty tourism".
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" Even the moment when Celeste slapped Mary Louise verged on sudsy, with Mary Louise retorting that it was Celeste's idea of "foreplay.
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The first day of the confirmation process for the Supreme Court, normally a contentious but decorous affair, verged on pandemonium on Tuesday.
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Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd.
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When 213 Savage first emerged in 2015, he was a cold brutalist of a rapper whose verses verged on the dead-eyed.
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The other was indignant and angry, ery undignified, and verged on a tone that you hear when someone is caught in a lie.
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What gave that strategy added power was his singing: From the beginning, he had a transcendent, curious voice that verged on the prepubescent.
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At the same time, he began producing geometric works that he called triads and quadrants, whose dazzling, kaleidoscopic colors verged on Op Art.
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But while his rhymes could be elemental, his zippy, throbbing production — an unending pulse that verged on the erotic — felt like the future.
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The consistency of the Trader Joe's granola was a little too flaky for our taste, and the sharpness of the flavors verged on overbearing.
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I had met Myatt at a tea shop in Malvern, where our encounter had verged on the surreal with his talk of race warriors, etc.
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Some news coverage of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma has verged on overkill, as reporters withstand the same dangerous conditions they've advised viewers to avoid.
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Trump's threats to China during the presidential campaign verged on the declaration of a trade war, something many analysts have said would be a risky move.
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In San Francisco, police issued a "be aware of your surroundings" warning so basic for players ("do not run into trees") that it verged on comedy.
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Several candidates pushed back on Castro's comments in the spin room, with some saying the former secretary's rhetoric onstage had verged on Trumpian, according to CNN.
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By contrast, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, whose fierce criticisms of Mr. Trump on the campaign trail often verged on the apocalyptic, rejects compromise with Mr. Trump.
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The 2015 paintings shown in New York were wrought in tightly interlocking designs filling the rectangle almost to bursting, with collisions of pattern that verged on the psychedelic.
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But you have to hand it to the guy—the main reason he accomplished these things is a conceptual fecundity so bottomless that his accomplishments verged on endless.
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Backstage after the show, Mr. Finochio, who has Christ-length hair and a deadpan sense of humor, admitted that he had been so nervous that he verged on panic.
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As I listened to Anohni's songs about melting ice caps, the death penalty, and Guantánamo, I kept thinking that the daunting scale of their ambition verged on the ridiculous.
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Books of Style The force that gives one couture house, or one fashion designer, the power to shape the tastes of women has always verged on the magical — sometimes literally.
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While Brennan did not cite any evidence, Trump's warm relationship with Putin is a puzzle and at times has verged on hero worship -- even as US-Russia relations have plummeted.
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The promise always verged on false advertising; tripling per capita GDP to Western European levels, and building their social infrastructures, would have been a herculean task even under ideal circumstances.
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The immediate consequences of this decision verged on the apocalyptic: The British economy imploded, villas and cities were abandoned to weeds, and the province was carved up among warlike tribal invaders.
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Issues of immigration and national identity have been central to the occasionally bitter clashes over the referendum, and critics say the tone of the debate has verged on racism and xenophobia.
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The Fourth was a case in point, too neutral and ponderous an account to fit the composer's most foreboding and destructive piece, and with playing that, at times, verged on blare.
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Sandra Bullock ultimately agreed to spend nine hours at a time in a 10-by-19703-foot special-effects box, executing choreographed moves so precise that her acting verged on modern dance.
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Savage, who has a Ph.D. in English, noted how in the novels, Nancy's obsessive hunger for the truth sometimes verged on voyeurism and led her into places that nice girls shouldn't go.
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On Monday, the mood among protesters outside the compound verged on victorious, with people chanting "thawra" (revolution) and waving the national flag aloft as soldiers looked on, footage from the scene showed.
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With few exceptions, the moderate candidates on stage spoke in tones so gentle they verged on apologetic, seeking to nudge the party away from far-left ideas without confronting them head-on.
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The Bizarre Scheme Using Viral Abuse Stories and Stolen Pics to Sell Diet Pills on TwitterIllustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)This weekend, a Twitter user shared a disturbing story that verged on the surreal.
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Clips of the ripping tracks she played—and a raucous crowd response that verged on a mosh pit behind the decks—went viral on the techno-loving side of Twitter the night afterward.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats tore into President Trump's Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, painting Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as a narrow-minded partisan as the opening day of his confirmation hearings verged on pandemonium.
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The five-time Grammy winner has consistently shunned the mezzo-soprano roles performed in the world's big opera houses, and has championed an early-music repertory that has sometimes verged on the obscure.
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I have always mistakenly pigeonholed McComb as more of a folk troubadour but, with two drummers and rhythms that verged on Krautrock, the band was in full Rolling Thunder Revue era Dylan mode.
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The clip perfectly crystallized the collective mood shared by many people who've long waited for a superhero epic that they can identify with—the anticipation, the giddy restlessness that verged on soul-warming hysteria.
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The scheme verged on farce: funds donated by the Sultan of Brunei were deposited in the wrong Swiss bank account; a key-shaped cake was delivered to the Ayatollah as a good-will gift.
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At the sawmills, while reviewing the contents of his Hasselblad's memory card, Burtynsky stopped on an image that verged on total abstraction: logs, shot from above, floating in water murky with sawdust and sediment.
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Earlier in the week, the mood among protesters outside the compound had verged on victorious, with people chanting "thawra" (revolution) and waving the national flag aloft as soldiers watched footage from the scene showed.
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In a night that sometimes verged on the bizarre, Erdogan took to social media even though he is an avowed enemy of the technology when his opponents use it, frequently targeting Twitter and Facebook.
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That was a head-scratcher for city officials because they couldn't remember purple anywhere on the sculpture, and the idea of repainting the iconic work in any way that was inauthentic verged on sacrilege.
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Cavazos, a Mexican actor who appeared in productions at London's Old Vic theater during Spacey's time, said he had experienced "a couple of unpleasant encounters with Spacey that verged on what you could call harassment".
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Clinton's assertions, backed only by innuendo, verged on the conspiratorial, yet it is a sign of the times that it was hard not to wonder at least for a moment whether to take her seriously.
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Mr. Ou Virak said such comments verged on intimidation, especially in rural areas, where many fear that if they do not vote their absence will be noticed and punished by local Cambodian People's Party officials.
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Read More Stockman: The markets are in store for a 'thundering reset' Meanwhile, the first earnings to trickle in have verged on decent, as 73 percent of S&P 500 companies have beaten their earnings estimates.
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The interior was lavishly decorated with oil-rubbed bronze lamps and patterned tile — the hotel imported more than one million pieces from Morocco — but some accents, like the brass snakes above the bed, verged on garish.
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In a night that sometimes verged on the bizarre, Erdogan frequently took to social media, even though he is an avowed enemy of the technology when his opponents use it and frequently targets Twitter and Facebook.
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On "It Must Have Been Love," the ballad that was Roxette's biggest hit, it verged on melodrama, but never felt hokey — singing at her outer limit, she rendered the song with a kind of affectionate bombast.
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Although some of rock's previous saviors maybe verged on taking themselves too seriously—ahem, The Strokes—PWR BTTM are having a fucking blast, and they're doing it while bringing you to tears and making your heart hurt.
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During the "Letterman" performance of "Hold My Hand" that catapulted the band into the national spotlight, Rucker sang with a voice that verged on scarred; behind him, the rest of the band propped him up with hope.
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Both and more were on offer at the third annual FORM Arcosanti, which took place here from Friday through Sunday, where performers who verged on the shamanic played to audience members looking for a sound to believe in.
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Mr. Trump's decision upended nearly a year of diplomacy that had verged on a deal with the Taliban to end the longest war in United States history, which began after the Taliban sheltered the plotters of the Sept.
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But Mr. Scaramucci's fiery first week, a brash, blustering performance that at times verged on self-parody, illustrates a deeper truth about the Trump White House: New Yorkers have taken over the West Wing and are turbocharging its culture.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — The former prime minister of Bulgaria verged on retaking power Sunday as his center-right party held a narrow lead in a contested election, a sign that Bulgarians still see their future lying with the European Union.
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It also answers the question of how the Austrian-born Bayer, who left the Bauhaus in 708 for an advertising career in Berlin, wound up in a remote mountain outpost, which, at the time, verged on a ghost town.
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Mr. Johnson, now 55 and on a glide path toward becoming prime minister, was then a rising star at The Daily Telegraph, cranking out front-page scoops that verged on satire, portraying European bureaucrats as absurd, overregulating control freaks.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roberto Cavazos, an actor who worked at a London theater where Kevin Spacey was artistic director between 2004 and 2015, said he had encounters with the Hollywood star at the time "that verged on what you could call harassment".
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During the almost-week I spent with them in August, every time Nicky or Brandon verged on saying something profound, whether it be about music or their childhoods, they'd substitute "shit" or "fucking" for whatever the key word might otherwise be.
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"We are a breath away from the end of the program and the definitive end to the memorandums," Mr. Tsipras said, referring to the three loan agreements Greece has signed with foreign creditors since it verged on bankruptcy in 2010.
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And the other figures in the show, in the portraiture work that mythologized blackness, always verged on being too fantastical, yet didn't look like he was referring to a distant fable, but to people I knew or perhaps had met before.
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Even opponents of TTIP, a transatlantic free-trade agreement, admit that the debate over it in Austria and Germany has verged on the hysterical, giving rise to outlandish scare stories—for instance that Europe would be flooded with American chickens treated with chlorine.
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The house-made pasta verged on heavy, but that was a minor blip alongside its cornucopia of seafood (mussels, squid, shrimp, bay scallops), which was dressed in a savory, slow-roasted tomato-cream sauce made more luxurious by the inclusion of a fulsome fish fumé.
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And like social media accounts that were allegedly run by Sayoc, his van was a platform to show his support of President Donald Trump that verged on the obsessive, and to denigrate Trump's perceived opposition — some of whom would receive bombs in the mail.
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At some moments, it seemed like the narrative verged on slut-shaming Malia, but the plotline ultimately highlighted how tricky navigating these boatmances is for the women on the show, who have to deal with injured male egos in close quarters for the rest of the season.
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From the 2018 midterms—in which races in Florida, Arizona, and Georgia are still being contested—to raging wildfires in California that are wiping entire communities off the map and continuing to rage, the news cycle has verged on impossible for any one person to process in its entirety.
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It was not a very good reality show; the drama was canned, and the plot lines verged on depressing (watching a woman desperately wish the father of her child would propose to her so she can feel confident about her life is my idea of extremely bleak content).
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For one of her encores, Ms. Antonacci sang the "Habanera" from "Carmen," but this foray into the extremely familiar was as eye-opening as the rest of the program: Her voice rarely rose above a mezzo-piano, which lent a beguiling mystery to a performance that verged on cabaret.
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The most successful dating profiles that I wrote for Kelly's clients were the ones that verged on saying too much—like one that talked about a woman having taken care of her mother while she passed away, or another where a guy lamented his inability to enjoy masculine traditions like football.
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Yet they were driven wild by the muscular application of the Jewish brain: Maccabees rolling under the bellies of armored Greek elephants to stab the soft undersides; Mossad missions whose odds, means, and results verged on magic; computer viruses so preternaturally complicated and smart they couldn't not leave Jewish fingerprints.
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By the time General Nicholson was chosen in March 2016 to lead the command in Afghanistan, after a stint as the commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in Turkey, the resources on the ground were depleted even as the threat posed by the Taliban was growing to a point that they verged on overrunning cities.
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After years of buildup, a debate about the nature of humor that verged on the metaphysical and the specter of a trial featuring testimony from Patton Oswalt and Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien settled a lawsuit against him Thursday, ending a standoff with a freelance comedy writer who had accused the late-night host of stealing jokes.
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