Example sentences of "on [art] brink " in BNC.
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| 1 | In coming months , Max may be spending a bit more time in the country , as Sinitta is on the brink of signing a world-wide recording contract and a movie deal . |
| 2 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 3 | Last month Arkady Volsky , head of the Kremlin commission which has administered the province since January , told Moscow that Armenia and Azerbaijan were ‘ on the brink of war ’ . |
| 4 | THE BRITISH economy is on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ in the fourth quarter as the Government 's high interest rate policy produces a dramatic downturn in business confidence , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business says . |
| 5 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 6 | Quite apart from the political fallout , there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession . |
| 7 | He is on the brink of breakdown , sobbing and incoherent . ’ |
| 8 | opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay . |
| 9 | The UK 's only helicopter manufacturer was on the brink of insolvency . |
| 10 | This was an ambitious , complex production , and , thanks to a particularly officious fire officer , it teetered on the brink of disaster . |
| 11 | The Czechoslovak economy is not on the brink of collapse . |
| 12 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 13 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 14 | Davis swept to 3-0 but missed the easiest of blues on the brink of 4-0 . |
| 15 | Davis swept to 3-0 but missed the easiest of blues on the brink of 4-0 . |
| 16 | This is not the first time in his career that Mr Bond , condemned for unconventional and perhaps sometimes dubious business tactics , has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | I like it when a Prince song is overwrought , has been worked at neurotically ( Prince 's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism , but never is stifled by attention , because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man 's polyrhythmic perversity ) . |
| 18 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 19 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 20 | The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) . |
| 21 | They were a difficult band to manage because they were always on the brink of breaking up . |
| 22 | Murdoch on the brink |
| 23 | Rather than see their goods hawked by retailers on the brink of bankruptcy , luxury firms must act fast to protect their brands . |
| 24 | JAPANESE manufacturers of memory chips are poised on the brink of a bloody price war . |
| 25 | Philadelphia has been on the brink of going bust for months . |
| 26 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 27 | There she was , poised on the brink of some great , unbelievable experience , and everyone else was more concerned with their own problems , their own lives . |
| 28 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |
| 29 | Like Dorothy teetering in her ruby slippers on the brink of the Yellow Brick Road , young Kylie took her first tentative steps towards stardom . |
| 30 | She learned to keep her face absolutely still , not to smile , and to look as if , on the brink of completing a bargain , she was going to walk away in disgust . |