Churchill vehemently opposed this, in a hateful, long-running campaign that raised eyebrows—even back then—as verging on the undemocratic and verging on totalitarianism.
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I have a huge headache that's verging on a migraine.
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Others, Republicans, expressed suspicion verging on contempt for the president.
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The concept is admittedly shallow and heteronormative, verging on dystopian.
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Banana bread calls for bananas gone black, verging on mush.
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"She is unflashy, verging on the inarticulate," Mr. Goodhart said.
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It is a parliamentary impasse verging on a constitutional crisis.
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Though it's verging on five years old, it's absolutely fresh.
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Verging on Magrittean Surrealism, it's a monument to modern architectural banality.
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In fact, given the source material, it's actually verging on gross.
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"You are verging on white nationalism, my friend," Kirk said angrily.
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All three characters are dark-skinned with faces verging on caricature.
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The government's initial reaction was one of confusion, verging on denial.
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She's verging into gibberish when the Colonists sneak up behind her.
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Nor were Thoreau's actual politics, which were libertarian verging on anarchist.
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It's attractive and luxurious without verging on the tacky and overdone.
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Yet at moments the prose can be pretentious, verging on parody.
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You can almost smell them, sweet, heavy, and verging on rotten.
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"Down 2 Hang" is dense verging on exhausting, and also hilarious.
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At its best, BTS's music is dense and polyvalent, verging on chaos.
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The texture, verging on jerky, can also be a challenge to outsiders.
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The generally rapturous audience treated Mr McDonnell's ideas with boredom verging on indifference.
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Snares and hi-hats climbed out in songs instead, verging on sounding hot.
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Mia chases her verging on hysteria, saying that sometimes, her mind imagines things.
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Something is happening beneath the surface, something arcane and verging on the magical.
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That's off the charts, verging onto Internet Hall of Fame levels of wonderful.
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Motherboard can confirm the experience was mind-blowing, emotional, and verging on hallucinogenic.
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Which means phablets or phones verging on phablet territory really are the future.
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In China, shipping is largely frozen, with many small businesses verging on ruin.
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Their urgency, though, was tempered by a degree of sentimentality, verging on nostalgia.
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The late night hosts thought that was misguided, verging on cruel and unusual.
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The perfectly toasted bread combined with gooey cheddar cheese was verging on pornographic.
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Val Kilmer isn't one to forget crushes, even if it's verging on the creepy.
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They were exhausted, verging on hysterical, but here they were, in it together, literally.
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C.Z. I get your righteous fury, which seems to be verging on Code Red.
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New Orleans, its flood protections verging on obsolete, lives on the edge of disaster.
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The media's portrayal of him, already verging on hagiography, has become even more fawning.
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This is the point where people who aren't verging on obsessive would have given up.
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Instead, British society gradually changed so that marriage between cousins became undesirable, verging on unthinkable.
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"Personally, I think it's irresponsible for anyone to publish names, verging on libel," he said.
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When it comes to Judge Kavanaugh, can they be tough without verging into the ridiculous?
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The Equinox shines by delivering a polished and quiet dynamic verging on luxury brand levels.
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But when does a late cycle economy transition into an economy that's verging on a recession?
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He criticised the NDA's restrictions on note-taking, which he described as "verging on the extraordinary".
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Wray is expounding a maximalist cosmology, sometimes exuberant, other times eclectic, at times verging on ornate.
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The sense of pride, verging in some instances on cockiness, extended to China's model of development.
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Value chain breadth (Canada is verging on a one-trick pony with its dependence on resources).
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Or will the card feature Kardashians as we know them: loud, grandiose, and verging on comical?
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I'm talking about the State of Internet Security, which is, as always, disastrous-verging-on-cataclysmic.
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Whereas Mr Flint was seen as a cerebral introvert, Mr Quinn is forthcoming, verging on blunt.
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Your job is to be fair (verging on generous) with valued service providers in your life.
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That turbulence, verging on violence, offended some, who read it as a depiction of sexual violence.
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Verging on abstraction, the muted depiction also resembles a city resting upon its own heated rubble.
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Their meeting was given pomp and ceremony at points verging on that of a royal wedding.
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What this means for the shopping experience is an excess of hand-holding, verging on babysitting.
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But the reason to watch Waves is its filmmaking, not its sometimes-verging-on-hackneyed storytelling.
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" Richard Smagur offered old-fashioned poise, verging on staidness, in tenor arias from "Carmen" and "Werther.
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But the determination to keep campaign promises is verging on an obsession inside the Trump White House.
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"It's verging on cyberbullying and harassment, in my opinion, that this app is engaged in," Bueckert said.
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Mr. Trump continued to express optimism — verging on eagerness — about sitting down with the North's reclusive leader.
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The MPAA adheres to an arcane, not fully known set of rules occasionally verging on the ridiculous.
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His analysis is informed but accessible, animated by anecdotes and characters, some colourful, some verging on tragic.
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In response, Moore and Sedwards settled into complementary thrum, verging their dialogue and outlining the song's harmony.
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Mr. Millsap sings with spiritual fervor verging on rage — his voice ecstatic and volcanic all at once.
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Herlitzius's voice is not conventionally beautiful, its steeliness verging on harshness, but it delivers the musical goods.
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Mid-season, Eve describes Villanelle to a sketch artist with an attendance verging on lust and adoration.
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Fortunately, the last half-hour of The BFG is quite good, even verging on great at times.
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Order it "dry," and it's cooked down in a pan to a texture verging on sloppy Joe.
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I found all the gold, prints, and fabrics so overwhelming and showy that it's verging on tacky.
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Instead they invite patient engagement and contemplation, verging on reverie, and they can be very, very soulful.
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The song is steadying verging on pretty, and the video is joyous verging on powerful: young Mr. Wyer and his friends, all wearing Aphex Twin shirts, caper around in front of a block of row housing, sped-up and slowed-down, with overuse of standard digital color effects.
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To ban these topics from the conversation is heavy-handed at best, and verging on censorship at worst.
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Like the restaurant's long menu, cumbrous name and odd location, it's another example of everything verging on overconceptualization.
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When the load is verging on too much, Dyche tweaks the schedule to allow the players to recover.
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Barbecue chicken was ordered in a rush verging on panic because whatever I'd first wanted wasn't ready yet.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 90%What critics said: "Smart, well-crafted, layered — verging on over-layered.
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Members of the Arab minority have criticized the law as "racist and verging on apartheid," according to Reuters.
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When it was verging on six months, she referred him once more to have the lymph node biopsied.
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If watching the film in January felt weird, watching it in July was outright bizarre, verging on surreal.
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As does the prospect of getting anything verging on delicious produced by one of these blinky-eyed cyber-cooks.
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Machaca is jerkylike dried beef, pounded in a mortar until it becomes almost airy, verging on carnal cotton candy.
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This keeps verging on being poetic, funny, jolly; absurdly solemn processions, nonsense trios and lingering tableaus all variously overlap.
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And what at first seems overblown — occasionally verging on hysteria — becomes more and more justified as the story unfolds.
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But the Sanders surge is unnerving other Democrats, who fear the party is verging too far to the left.
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It was a lack of conscience that was verging on sociopathic," Assistant U.S. Attorney Grace Hill told "American Greed.
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And so began the verging-on-nuts expectation I built up on how learning to surf would change my life.
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The Bachelorette almost always wears something classic — a little simple, verging on basic if you're feeling judgmental — and eye-catching.
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The answer is probably all of the above, but it makes for some heavy-handed messaging verging on sensorial overload.
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Virginia is not a state like Kentucky or Mississippi or Alabama — it's a kind of purple-verging-on-blue state.
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Boris plays various kinds of romanticist, distorted, slow-release music, not without humor and mischief, and sometimes verging on pop.
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Mr. Sparks successfully solves the opposite problem in Jerry, a character with almost too many colors, often verging on purple.
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It symbolized a peculiar fondness, verging on devotion, that the skillful forward has developed for the tiny South American country.
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Officials with the administration of President Ronald Reagan had claimed that the government was verging toward pro-Soviet totalitarian socialism.
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"The Nerve" is unhurried, verging on indifferent, a perhaps inadvertent nod to when country first went alt- in the 1990s.
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Night owls and early birds and everyone in between, we're all verging on burnout and could use healthier sleep habits.
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In contrast to the outgoing boss, seen as a cerebral introvert, Mr Quinn comes across as forthcoming, verging on the blunt.
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He was rigorous verging on relentless, relying on FOIA requests, archival research, interviews with industry sources, and on-the-ground sleuthing.
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Technology can do many things, many of them verging on the miraculous—but it cannot bypass values, commitments, interests, and beliefs.
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It's pop le Carré, more lightweight (you could say shallower) and verging on soap opera in its romantic and familial entanglements.
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With a sharp piquancy verging on neuroticism, the ink paintings of Jian Yi-Hong reveal the psychic manifestation of the moment.
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And apparently her M.O. as a lyricist is roughly the same: fragmented and semi-opaque, unrhymed, sometimes verging toward language poetry.
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Your swiping arm is verging towards carpal tunnel territory, and you're tired of blinking past photos of struggling actors in fedoras.
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His work plays with the motifs of sexism verging on complete objectification, all manner of racist Black stereotypes, and generalized prejudice.
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The other two countries in the region — Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina — are not that far along, verging on failed states.
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Vinnie, pizza-maker and "transition man," was a banquet verging on bacchanal: destined to create heartburn but impossible to stop eating.
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"That would be extremely, extremely difficult to do verging on impossible without causing some real harm to the economy," he said.
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Google could of course surprise everyone by launching an entirely different line of phones, but that's verging on tinfoil hat territory. [Engadget]
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Big platform companies such as Facebook and Google are powerful, verging on arrogant, and they have been openly hostile to Mr Trump.
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Compared with that concern, politicians and regulators have treated online video services like YouTube (owned by Google) with insouciance verging on neglect.
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This went on for a number of weeks with the back and forth verging on the comical… Hubby: What ya doin' honey?
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The selected "verging on emerging" artists worked with the institution's team on the allocation of time and money, without specific formal expectations.
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I'm talking about big issues, or even life-threatening situations: You're down to six months' worth of cash and verging on crisis.
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But then contractual battles with his label turned it into something more — a rallying cry for artist independence, verging on the apocryphal.
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The cycle of violence-ceasefire-repeat that keeps verging on all-out war may look like pointless destruction to the outside world.
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I didn't have to sit with my legs agape, verging on the vulgar, like most of the men I saw demanding space.
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This is where we get the 80 percent statistic, which in the grand scheme of machine learning is OK verging on good.
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"There's this desire, verging on panic, to consolidate the field," said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a former supporter of Mr. Bush.
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By midnight, I was stress eating pizza and verging on meltdown when my partner decided he'd had enough and left the living room.
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I feel morally obliged to point out that this is the point where people who aren't verging on obsessive would have given up.
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Cryptocurrencies were given to us not by a known, living, breathing, flawed human being, but by a pseudonymous verging-on-mythical quasi-demigod.
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Given that the armada of vehicles that follow the Tour around is always verging on becoming a traffic jam, he seemed perfectly qualified.
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Wise has also endowed Fedor's character with an exaggerated Jewish-American identity, one marked by Yiddishisms and shtick and often verging on caricature.
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"My specialty seems to be playing the loud, pompous, bombastic, verging-on-hysteria guy," Mr. Schramm told The Los Angeles Times in 1989.
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For example, the Brotherhod favours pragmatic dealings with Shia Muslim Iran, whereas the Nour leaders tend to regard all Shias as verging on infidel.
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Our lives are being restricted by a virus that is invisible to the naked eye, verging on abstraction, and yet it is terrifyingly real.
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Bergman describes Sharon as a "pyromaniac," and his obsession with killing Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as verging on monomaniacal.
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Marat Novikov, the owner, left his hometown, Minsk, the Belarusian capital, for Brooklyn three decades ago, when the Soviet Union was verging on collapse.
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Like many beard-wearers with office jobs, I have the kind of stubble that's not quite a beard, but is always verging on it.
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But the situation is verging on the extreme in Europe, giving the perniciousness of the problem the potential to play on an entire generation.
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Scientists, archivists and journalists have been scrambling to preserve the valuable data the agency amassed, and the National Park Service is verging on revolt.
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The complication rate was much higher at that time, and the death rate at one year after surgery was 4.6 percent, verging on unacceptable.
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In an interview aboard the Governors Island ferry, the critics — Hudson, 5, and Jacqueline, 3 — proffered a slippery set of criteria, verging on the tautological.
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But Mr. Sharpton is one of the few prominent Democrats who have offered Mr. Cohen anything verging on warmth as his life has spiraled downward.
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It may be too early to talk about a distinct Australian style; the same unregulated atmosphere that fosters innovation also fosters diversity, verging on incoherence.
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The anti-EU Brexit Party could also finish in first place in Britain — though the circumstances surrounding the election there are verging on the absurd.
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The poetry found in her film is absent in the racing and jumping scenes in "Race," and the movie's overall palette is prosaic verging on drab.
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The colors are bright, the singing is cool, Moore's styling is impeccable, and Tatum is the lithe, verging-on-goofy dancer we know him to be.
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It seems ridiculous to me, verging on irresponsible, to assign a single pregnancy weight gain target range to an infinite range of female bodies and experiences.
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Obsessions, verging on bigotry, with Muslim rituals in a monument of world cultural heritage are incomprehensible and reveal a lack of respect and connection with reality.
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Ammons was the anti-Kerouac: a shy, puttering man of ordinary routines, square verging on dorky in appearance, devoted to his back-yard jays and spruces.
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The Obama administration's policy was incoherent and incompetent, verging on the bizarre with support for radicals affiliated with al-Qaeda, which, of course, had attacked America.
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But here I am verging on yet another wordy thesis about the intentions of Jasper Johns, which, to be authoritative, would need confirming testimony from him.
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When Jackie called him to request an interview, Gao became the first and only person in Shengzhou to regard us with a tone verging on hostile.
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In both of these installations, banal images of people in extreme situations — often verging on cartoon-cute — sanitize the violence and traumatic nature of the stories.
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When he returned, the Roma fans among the staff were decked out in the club's colors — yellow and a red verging on burnt orange — to welcome him.
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While much reporting by the British press on the royal family is respectful, verging on the sycophantic, at other times it can be harshly critical, even cruel.
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You may think of what the Fed did as a response to howls of laments that it was killing an economy allegedly verging on a recessionary relapse.
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The band first gained fame in the late nineties with airy, falsetto-driven soundscapes; its recent work is heavy with guitars and drums, verging on black metal.
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Her first book, " The Verging Cities ," was set on the border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, a zone of lethal risk but vital potential.
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Appearing less like masks and more like biological fusions between herself and other organisms—part plantlife, part anemone—they're unsettling creations channeling something verging on body horror.
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While the first season of Fleabag was unapologetically and aggressively dark, the show's second season took an unexpected turn toward the optimistic, verging at points on heartwarming.
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The grooves will be churning, and the mood exuberant verging on ecstatic — especially given a likely parade of guests from a local scene aswarm with party-starters.
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By the end of 2015, Jolla's tablet was dead, the company was verging on bankruptcy, and Pienimäki was preparing to lay off many of Jolla's roughly 100 employees.
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With its verging-on-vérité cinematography, elliptical editing style, and constant interior monologue, it matches the aesthetic parameters of the French New Wave and other modernist film movements.
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By the late Obama years, a skeptical-verging-on-hostile view of immigration had become a core tenet of party orthodoxy — like opposing gun control or denouncing Obamacare.
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The irony of purposely ironic buildings that joked with history is that they are themselves verging on history, and history more than beauty is proving their strongest defense.
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Pier Giorgio Morandi's conducting was genteel (verging on gentle), save for a few dramatic lurches that pushed faster than one singer (or subset of the chorus) was expecting.
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"I recall a feeling of frustration verging on outrage," said Ted Doolittle, the deputy director of the Medicare and Medicaid agency's Center for Program Integrity at that time.
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The internationally backed Libyan government the European Union is dealing with has barely a toehold in the fragmented, violence-plagued country, and may even be verging on collapse.
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So few nonresidents enter Shuafat that my appearance there seemed to be a highly unusual event, met with warm greetings verging on hysteria, crowds of kids following along.
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His mockery of "Sleepy Joe Biden" is a familiar tactic -- one he used against Clinton and Pelosi that suggests that a foe is intellectually diminished or verging on senility.
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Such schemes have faced difficulty of late, with Mobike shrinking its operation zones and another Chinese firm, Ofo, pulling out of London entirely amid concerns it's verging on bankruptcy.
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Her collaborations with Tony Bennett crossed pop standards and the great American songbook off her list, but she's also dabbled in country, hip-hop, and songs verging on rock.
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And in a situation verging on slapstick, a desperate Tsiang finally found his work recommended to an important publisher, Richard Walsh, who happened to be married to Pearl Buck.
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So, with the Brewers verging on 12 wins, George Webb is using the five-day break before the Brewers next game to prepare for a proverbial onslaught from customers.
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A sexually voracious woman verging on a nervous breakdown, she exudes the kind of vivid, quasi-masculine, erotic power often seen in, well, the women of Tennessee Williams's plays.
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But regardless of your level of Kardashian interest, we can all agree that discussing it in-depth twice in one day on two different platforms is verging on dangerous obsession.
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I don't know what exactly is going on in the accession talks, but it is obvious that Indo-Pakistani hostilities, verging on military confrontation, are incompatible with the SCO membership.
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Such precision, verging into fussiness, illustrates another aspect of fringe art that sets it apart: that passively viewing it, the way you would a painting on a wall, isn't enough.
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But those early successes were followed by painful years of struggle, sometimes verging on creative paralysis, as he battled to write music that lived up to his fanatically high standards.
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Mining companies are "exceptionally" well-managed and have balance sheets verging on net cash, Tevfik said, adding that the reason for that was due to China's relatively strong growth rate.
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Uncertainty, verging on anxiety and even panic for some Iowa Democrats, reflects the responsibility they feel as they seek a nominee who can beat the president in the general election.
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It's a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious.
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These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.
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In the case of Bankroll Fresh, who was verging on his own elusive star moment when he was murdered two months ago, his friends are making sure his name stays alive.
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I tried to remind him that it's always darkest before the dawn and give him tips, but I think my well-meaning advice came across condescendingly, my optimism verging on annoying.
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That means that as many as 270 million of the platform's 2.1-billion-strong user base could be fraudulent or duplicated — a population verging on the size of the United States.
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The Frekvens hacks range from verging on practical—a handle and side compartment for a Boombox say—to a giraffe and all manner of chicken legs, cannon wheels, and detonator handles.
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Just before the two locked eyes, Jaime's face verging on fear and Bran's face bearing his goofy all-knowing-smirk, Bran told Sam is that he was waiting for a friend.
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The suite, dubbed Cognitive Services, empowers developers to make their software far smarter, including tools for trainable speech-to-text processing and a quality of object recognition verging on actual magic.
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Like many in the rest of the world, Americans have a largely negative view of Russian leader Vladimir Putin—albeit one that is tempered by a grudging respect verging on fear.
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At the same time that Mr. Trump continues to exhibit paranoia about American intelligence agencies, he displays a trust verging on gullibility in the mendacious and murderous government of Mr. Putin.
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But that sweetness, verging on sentimentality, is also Housman's limitation: the lads and lasses slumbering under the grass, never growing old or sick or worrying about how to find a job.
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This level of uncertainty, verging on anxiety and even panic for some caucusgoers, reflects the stakes for Democrats as they seek a nominee who can do effective battle with Mr. Trump.
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Copious experience has taught us all, the hard way, that it is very difficult, verging on "basically impossible," to write extensive amounts of C code that is not riddled with security holes.
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It chose its punches much more carefully than the masses on Twitter or Facebook (who are now exhausted, verging on hysterical) tend to, and that could be a refreshing change of pace.
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WORLD Israel passed a law today to declare that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, something members of the Arab minority called racist and verging on apartheid.
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Verging on architecture, "By the Yard" (which has wonderful areas of coarse, crazed embroidery) and "Passengers" almost require wedging yourself between the panels to see the four-sided progressions of linked images.
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The mystery of David's true identity is high-concept verging on gothic, and it becomes even more so as ELIXIR's abilities are revealed to have taken a turn for the science fictional.
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It's painful to watch his early matches with Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, and Ernie Terrell, which seem not at all like contests of equals but exercises in punishment and retribution verging on torture.
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Leicester Journal LEICESTER, England — Soccer-crazed, working-class Leicester is verging on one of those ridiculous seasons, an unimaginable championship that was given worse betting odds at the start than finding Elvis alive.
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The opulent style wasn&apost to my taste (it was verging on tacky in my eyes) and the layout seemed slightly odd, but I&aposd still love to stay there given the chance.
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Russia is mixing it up in Ukraine, and Japan and China seem to be verging on near-permanent snit, but Russia and Japan haven't been at war since way back in the 1940s.
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We can draw some lines between those [issues] that have some—and it's very difficult—legitimacy [as public policy issues], and others that are verging over into issues unrelated to the law enforcement profession.
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The only other possibility is that Trump doesn't intend to excite white nationalists but is just doing so by accident: He's the Mr. Magoo of bigotry, not malicious but near-sighted verging on blind.
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It focused national attention on the state of Missouri and brought publicity to the NAACP, which only last month had been publicly blasted by a powerful group of black ministers for verging on irrelevance.
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Their regrets and longings, though artfully couched in the "tone of nostalgic resignation verging on melancholy" that Elio finds in Michel's speech, too seldom break through the tasteful decor to truly touch the heart.
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He identified himself as "an Arsenal fan first and a football fan second," and wrote with detachment verging on contempt about "the middle-class football fans" who admire the "cerebral attributes" of certain players.
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Instead, it showed plenty of signs of verging psychosis and a hair-trigger propensity for violence by a man variously described as a drinker, a wife beater, a drug taker and a chronic womanizer.
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But he is still working out how to manage many of the traits associated with his fellow millennials: a sense of entitlement, a tendency to overshare on social media, and frankness verging on insubordination.
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In her own hard shell of a navy pinstripe suit, she is tart, verging on pitiless; you feel her need to distance herself from the prospect of becoming exactly the same kind of woman.
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Sure, those pointing to the redesign as another way for Trump to hide stuff may be verging a bit into conspiracy territory, but the Trump administration has a record of doing away with unwanted information.
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Along with a billboard, vinyl-wrapped school bus, pop-up shop, and set of MetroCards, the skatepark installation pushes Kruger's tried-and-true (but verging on trite) work into the urban spaces she's influenced most.
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Teams at Google and IBM, however, were verging on chips nearing 50 qubits; that August, Google quietly posted a draft paper laying out a road map for demonstrating quantum supremacy on these "near-term" devices.
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"The FTSE has had a pretty good rally, it's verging on overbought now so it might just be a little bit of short-term weariness," Ian Williams, economics and strategy analyst at Peel Hunt, said.
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This is a travesty, verging on tragedy, for both those who live in the region, as well as for those involved in the larger effort to help the region onto a stable and democratic footing.
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Hardly looking at him, and verging on the inaudible, I said, "I don't know if Daddy will ride his bike again, buddy" He said nothing but something shifted in his gaze before he shimmied away.
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Mainstream coverage of the debate over President Donald Trump's DACA hostage-taking has been marked by an alarming insouciance, verging on denial, about what's actually going on — and about just how much is on the line.
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The wild, untamed fantasy of the West has always sat next to negative depictions of industrialization but Red Dead Redemption 22017's meticulous, verging into fetishistic, presentation feels charged with our current moment of ecological devastation.
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What's inarguable is that curative fandom tends to treat transformative fandom with a kind of bafflement verging on downright hostility — the same reaction, more or less, that most non-fandom groups have toward fandom in general.
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Authorities warned the total rainfall in some areas could surpass 231,2100 mm (39 inches) in 24 hours to Friday morning and advised some 584,100 people to evacuate as some rivers were verging dangerously close to flood stage.
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In both the exit debate and the mayoral race, it is the side that is thought to be losing that has ratcheted up the rhetoric, at times verging on racism and Islamophobia, that has upset many Britons.
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While Everton may only be verging on the top six of the Premier League, Lukaku's boot is No. 1 / gold / A-OK, as he's beaten out all other contenders for most goals on the season so far.
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Better yet are versions featuring pusit (squid), so thoroughly broken down, it's impossible to distinguish arm from mantle, but tender and distinctly marine; bangus (milkfish), light and ready to flake; and tuna, rich and verging on beefy.
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It was Modern verging on Art Deco, with the exception of two grand rooms for entertaining that were embellished with ornate cornices and other detailing in the French Beaux-Arts style still most widely favored at the time.
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Over the past year or so, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has amassed such a stacked cast list that the movie feels like it's verging on becoming a three-hour series of walk-on cameos.
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In novel after novel (he has published more than 70), Aira has specialized in what he calls "Dadaist fairy tales," which rely less on fantastical invention than on his characters' distorted perceptions and a style verging on allegory.
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Then there's the confidence verging on criminality that is actively preached by a subculture of so-called pickup artists who instruct men to push past polite female refusal until they get what they want regardless of women's wishes.
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The Senate's repeal-and-replace effort found itself near collapse on Tuesday, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell left trying to win back the support of defectors, leaving Republicans on the other side of Capitol frustrated, verging on apoplectic.
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Fascinatingly loopy and verging on Symbolism, the piece may reflect the sexual panic of the period just before Freud — though James Darrah's production has updated it to a more abstractly modern setting, with the brothel all Lucite and neon.
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A little over three months out from the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, former Vice President Joe Biden's Democratic presidential campaign appears to be verging on the edge of crisis in the first two early-voting states.
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It was there, lazily floating in a raft with Beth* — my friend with benefits verging on girlfriend — and her two friends, that I finally felt comfortable enough with my body to bare my skin, with just a little bit of encouragement.
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Amazon is staring down a crisis of reputation: Its HQ2 search, launched in an era of public support verging on adulation, is now caught up in a very different epoch of popular unhappiness with the unchecked power of wealthy companies.
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Analysts say that North Korea cultivates a sense of unpredictability verging on irrationality, but that, in fact, the government remains coldly calculating, edging up to the brink of war to keep aggressors at bay and its savagely oppressed people cowed.
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I know this is reductive, even verging on stereotypical; lots of trans women are short, and plenty of cis women—from Megan Thee Stallion and the tall girl from Tall Girl to Elizabeth Debicki and Peppa Pig—are perfectly statuesque.
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Even the arrest of those two henchmen, recently charged with criminal violations of campaign finance laws, was dramatic, verging on staged, as federal law enforcement agents apprehended them on the jetway as they tried to board a plane to flee the country.
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This means General Tso's chicken, glistening and verging on too sweet, as it always did; pepper steak, soy-dark, whose unnuanced pleasures can't be broken down into its simple arithmetic of garlic, ginger and scallions; limp lo mein littered with baby corn.
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The notion that the House could now muster legislation on so thorny an issue was hard to credit; in my conversations with White House and Senate Democratic staff members, their estimation of the House's efforts on immigration oozed condescension verging on scorn.
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It's but one among an array of celeb appearances in this reboot (David Duchovny, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Cera, etc.) But Laura Dern is a special actress, and her verging-on-campy reveal in this episode is 100% more exciting than any other cameo.
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The physical comedy, often verging on dance, is priceless — "translating thought into action worthy of an Iron Man competition," as Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times in March for his review of the Off Broadway premiere at the Public Theater.
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But the secrecy surrounding its negotiations with cities has led to widespread accusations that Amazon—an absurdly wealthy company verging on mega-corporation status, helmed by the richest man in modern history—is shaking them down in private with the eager assistance of local officials.
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Japan's 'big three' automakers are, however, verging on the conservative with their assumed yen rate of 105 to the dollar, which is more downbeat than a Reuters poll of foreign exchange analysts, which forecast the yen easing to 115 per dollar by next April.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.You are somewhere between the ages of 22 and 26 years old, and it is February, the romance month, verging on the cusp of spring, the horny season, and there is a flump-ing sound at the door.
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The remaining two-thirds are fleeing a group of other conflicts — such as fighting between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government, ethnic violence in South Sudan that some observers warn is verging on genocide, and the Myanmarese government's systematic oppression of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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The joke, if you can't tell from the title, is that Tingle's work is notoriously mystifying, verging somewhere between absurdist surrealism and stream-of-consciousness badfic; it's anthropomorphic porn as if written by someone with disjointed, half-formed thoughts and limited powers of expression.
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His was a pent-up anger, verging on vitriol: a well-rehearsed takedown of Sinn Fein and all it stands for and against, laying blame at its leadership's door for lack of progress in getting power-sharing talks back on their feet in Northern Ireland.
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In the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described their discussion as "frank," often diplomat-speak to describe disagreements verging on testy, and they bemoaned the state of affairs between the two nations.
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T. J. Leaf, a freshman at U.C.L.A. and now 123-212 (verging, according to his coach, Steve Alford, on 22015-219), rebounds on both ends, sets picks on the perimeter, kicks the ball out to shooters and makes nearly half his 3-point attempts.
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That, however, ignores the fact that, since at least the accession of the late John Paul II in 1978, papal teaching has been a carefully mixed blend of anti-Marxism and social liberalism, verging at times on radicalism, which has usually come generously sprinkled with pacifism.
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Other journalists — ironic, cynical or simply enterprising, depending on your point of view — have embraced the moment as the wildest ride of their lives, and a lucrative one, too: The number of Washington reporters with cable television contracts, some with salaries verging on six figures, has surged.
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The more mundane obstacle for the would-be fabulist of the peloton is that sportspeople are such unpromising material: The very things that make a professional athlete successful — single-minded dedication, self-belief verging on narcissism, a requisite lack of imagination — don't necessarily make for interesting characters.
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JON PARELES In a song from an album due in September, the National re-emerges upbeat, verging on danceable, with "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness," a plaint about lost intimacy delivered with a kicking drumbeat, an insistent distorted guitar lick and a strobing video clip.
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Here's a rowdy, self-aware, cranky verging on bilious boomer-rock epitaph written by Pete Townshend and sung by Roger Daltrey: "I don't care, I know you're going to hate this song," Daltrey sings as Townshend builds new versions of the Who's edifices of strum and riff.
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The benign mood is undercut only by a detail that isn't easy to spot even face-to-face with the original and that must have been indiscernible in Look's reduced reproduction: a white woman peering from a nearby window, her expression conveying worry, verging on hostility.
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" Despite their intricate arguments (or perhaps because of them), these poems rush forward with kinetic momentum; we are always verging upon some fresh perceptual discovery—"Unlike the other countries, this one / Begins in houses, specific houses and the upstairs room / Where constitutions vibrate in the blockfront drawers [. . .].
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"Bowlaway" (her third novel, and first in 18 years) is jumpier, twitchier, a big book that veers in and out of the lives of its idiosyncratic characters, creating what McCracken calls a "genealogy," occasionally verging, in its bric-a-brac of historical oddball detail, on the precious.
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Then Marlow responded with an especially disparaging comment about Ivanka and Kushner: "Best conspiracy on the whole internet is Jared is an actual cuckhold," suggesting Ivanka was literally engaging in the kind of infidelity that has become an obsession (verging on a verbal tic) for the far-right.
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These have more of the conventional contours of a thriller, verging at moments on the ridiculous, but even here the novel is careful to grant Livia the full complexity of her awful history, the murderousness, the helplessness, the sorrow and the self-loathing that underlie her adult strength.
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"The Verging Cities" is a frightening book, full of searchlights and shadows, but it's also a book about the private pleasures—of sex, of music, of jokes and meals—that its tenderly drawn young lovers have while in states of anxious in-between-ness and fraught not-quiteness.
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"Scratch the surface of Cooper's 'Star Is Born,'" he writes, and you'll find a deeply conservative movie in which the trappings of contemporary pop-stardom are regarded with skepticism verging on distaste, and the best way a rock star can prove his tortured bona fides is to kill himself.
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But compromise was harder to avoid this year, diplomats said, partly because of the deterioration of conditions in Yemen, now described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with seven million people verging on famine and a cholera epidemic that threatens to sicken nearly a million people by year's end.
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Look What You Made Me Do leans even further into the Top 40 impulses of Swift's last release, going full Britney Spears in its verging-on-madness psycho pop — with a talk-sung chorus that's a little too close to comfort to I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred.
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With her paint surfaces sometimes verging on low relief, it is unsurprising that, for the first time, Ms. Schutz is also exhibiting sculpture, a frequent subject in her paintings: five bronzes of her characteristically gnarly figures whose crazed textures amaze and will surely feed back into her painting.
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Given this context, the paintings in The N-Word are so of the moment that they seem to begin verging on inevitability; it bears remembering that Williams initiated these works prior to the groundswell of black superheroes and within a climate that was not necessarily receptive to his vision.
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By changing up the usual fatalistic dope-fiend hedonism with new verbiage and situations—I direct sex fiends to the cunt-lapping relish of "I Will"—Brown's first proper album means to show us he's got a right to "Die Like a Rockstar," meaning rich, high, and verging on bored.
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But the prevailing issue in "The Intervention" is marriage, not a death: The friends gather to advise a husband and wife verging on divorce, the Type-A Peter (Vincent Piazza) and the sensible Ruby (Cobie Smulders), to break up, though it takes the group a while to arrive at the task.
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Now that Five Star is a partner in government and its political leader, Luigi Di Maio, is the minister for economic development, the party's internal disagreements, apparent reservations and wavering on opposing the pipeline have left Mr. Fasiello and other southerners who helped vault the party to victory verging on revolt.
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Already at war, people there were in need of bucking up, and "Thunder Rock" provided that with its story of a wounded idealist who retreats from a world that is verging on self-destruction, only to have a band of ghosts reignite his spirit and send him back into the fray.
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The ideas are verging on mainstream, heavily mirroring right-wing ideologies that have led to an expansion of power for right wing ideologues in a time in which inequality is at its highest, democracy is at its most fragile, and government regulation of financial institutions and polluting corporations are of the utmost importance.
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Her form is surgical verging on robotic, and she explains it to laypeople with a doctor's bedside manner—wheels turning, regularly checking in with her audience as she simplifies the difficult and complex technique essential to her sport, and its essential impossibility of the piloting of hairpin turns on slender planks at a bewildering clip.
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The plot against Daniels seems baffling, verging on nonsensical — until you begin to see the community the way King does: so deformed by racial animus and misogyny that the white establishment of Lake County deemed it less of an "indignity" for Knowles to have been raped by a white man than a black man.
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If Mr. Biden spent much of the debate on defense, so at times did the ascendant left wing of the Democratic Party, as a group of moderates led by Mr. Biden raised doubts — and repeatedly expressed something verging on alarm — about Democrats' embrace of the far-left ideas pioneered by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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But over two days of extended interviews that took place in his rented Amangani Resort home, on long walks through Jackson, and in lengthy car rides spanning eastern Idaho to Yellowstone National Park — edited excerpts from which are included below — Kanye was calm, measured, verging on beatific, and also self-aware and willing to reckon with the challenges he'd created for himself.
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At the Night and Day show at the New Museum a few years ago, I witnessed what he could do with crepuscular shades of blue, making that palette a landscape inhabited by overly stylized figures (they reminded me of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's characters) verging on the brink of abstraction and so convincingly beautiful they held that middle ground between fantasy and truth.
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Veronica's a judgy person by nature, and her disdain toward Max's girlfriend Wendy gets nicely questioned by the framing here, so I think part of the episode works — but Wendy herself is a cardboard cutout of a character and her story is verging on a cliché, and Max is the kind of character who would 093 percent be portrayed as an incel if this episode were written in 2019.
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