Example sentences of "dangerously close to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 2 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 3 | A yacht crewed by a man and three laughing women careered dangerously close to the shore . |
| 4 | Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults . |
| 5 | … particular care must be taken before stigmatising a decision as one at which no reasonable person could have arrived , for this is coming dangerously close to the court substituting its own discretion for that of the tribunal . |
| 6 | However , the boundary between policy and administration is often blurred and civil servants may be led dangerously close to the discussion of policy . |
| 7 | dangerously close to the ground . |
| 8 | I was moving dangerously close to the potato peelings . |
| 9 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
| 10 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |