| 单词 | border on |
| 例句 | To meet once a week seemed to him much less regular, entirely too haphazard, bordering on carelessness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The stories were nothing like his story; for this he felt a gratitude bordering on love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Although not illegal, indulging in the so-called grandmaster draw—in which neither player strives to win but, rather, halves the point after a few inconsequential moves have been made—bordered on unprincipled behavior. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The look in his eyes is bordering on crazy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were walking along a winding path on one of the many hills in San Francisco, bordered on one side by green grass and on the other by squat houses, a road, and parked cars. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I trust the black border on the page will not prove prophetic. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They nodded respectful goodbyes that bordered on bows, and left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was mightily relieved that she hadn’t won; she was bordering on unbearable as it was. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Readers of black newspapers around the country followed the exploits of the Tuskegee airmen with an intensity that bordered on the obsessive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was a girl his age, and there was a look on her face of resignation bordering on sorrow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “But they’re getting all the fame and opportunity,” Milo persisted with a petulance that bordered on sniveling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon and his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He edges closer, bordering on friendly for the first time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z An expression flashed across Celaena’s eyes that bordered on fear and confusion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then Reb Saunders became ill, and at the same time my father also took to his bed with the flu, a severe case that bordered on pneumonia for a while and frightened me terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z None of the rest of them—Rishi or Pappa or Ma—could ever manage casual nonchalance bordering on arrogance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He had finally gotten the hang of his journal, writing things that bordered on thoughtful—but it was still just a sham. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A chain-link fence ran all the way around, and it was bordered on three sides by squat stone houses and on the fourth by another of Yazd’s boulevards. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Madison did need to come up with at least three votes on assumption—here Jefferson's account is accurate—and eventually four members switched their votes, all of them congressmen from districts bordering on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were probably unsavories—people who found enjoyment in activities that bordered on the fringe of the law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Central Americans are sent back to the Guatemalan border on el bus de lagrimas, the bus of tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Strange behavior, bordering on very dangerous; why try to pass a semi in the freezing rain? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Suddenly you’re very smug,” Mrs. Levy said in a voice that bordered on hysteria. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have to be something bordering on miraculous to lure him out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His enthusiasm bordered on mania, yet still it failed to inspire us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She doesn’t respond, and we stand there, staring at each other in silence, something bordering on understanding passing between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The person was certainly skilled, but he—or she—was attacking the music with such ferocity that it bordered on madness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just when the situation begins to border on pandemonium, the Metropolitan Police come to their rescue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks into the semester, Paul dropped out, and my father, convinced that his son's lawn-mowing skills bordered on genius, set him up in the landscaping business. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He regards me with something that borders on disgust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The British are not about to offer their excuses; true, they were sleeping during the years Germany was rearming itself, but all the other countries, especially those bordering on Germany, were asleep too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And Adah, crocheting black borders on napkins and tossing them to the wind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned again, eyes burning with purpose, bordering on anger. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The preacher stands there, his rheumy brown eyes locked on Katherine's bosom and a smile that borders on indecent on his thin, pink lips. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Blank bordering on Sullen and when I looked over at Edmond he had the saddest expression on his face but when he saw I was looking he smiled. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was back at the United States border on January 18. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This state of affairs produced a temporary anarchy and a state of mind bordering on hysteria, particularly among the planter elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her homework bordered on algebra even though it was only fourth grade, and I helped her with it, sometimes doodling spirals or patterns on the side of the pages while she worked. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In Serra, bets over who will win border on the obscene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Indeed, the procedure undertaken borders on the doubtful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Declaration’s note back to me was prickly, bordering on peevish. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His appetite, on the other hand, was fierce, sometimes bordering on the violent. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He was described three decades after his death as having had “so much taste and talent that his mind bordered on genius.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Her avocado skin had a ridged texture like corduroy, her graying hair was shaggy and matted, and her build bordered on obese. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked-by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He couldn’t like Professor Trelawney, even though she was treated with respect bordering on reverence by many of the class. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Nothing that bordered on the undisciplined or unorthodox was tolerated at PM. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Below was a small, shallow cut, barely through the skin, bordered on both sides by a white area, very sore to touch, which was going to be a bruise and turn black-and-blue. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He gave the position his all and became known among his teammates for toughness bordering on recklessness in his efforts to keep the ball out of the net. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Spassky’s respect for his nemesis bordered on adulation and possibly even fear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z With every answer, Mrs. Moss was getting testier, until her attorney interjected, “We’re bordering on harassment.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He looked, now, as if he bordered on apoplexy. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The lane was bordered on the left by wild, low-growing brambles, on the right by a high, neatly manicured hedge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They both know it’s wishful thinking that borders on delusion, but right now it’s all they have. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He's always so calm—bordering on mysterious, even. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He put his hand on the fence and watched the people filing through the border on foot a few yards away. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Moreton Bay is bordered on the north by Redcliffe and on the south by Wellington Point, with Wynnum in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and “her place.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He eyed Ned with a smile on his lips that bordered on insolence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “A visit from a fairy broker is a significant event, and carries certain expectations. I’ll concede that the merriment borders on foolishness.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There’s the constant lite FM, which occasionally borders on dangerously funky, coming out of the nurses’ station whether Smitty or Howard is behind it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A skinny kid with braces, a member of the debate club as well as drama, he has a passion, bordering on obsession, for recycling. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Leila worked part-time as a bookkeeper with a heightened attention to detail; her memory for little things bordered on the photogenic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The first streaks of evening lay against the sky like a purple border on a blue sari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Much music tonight, in an episode whose visual language borders on that of the rock video. TV highlights 26/06/2012 2012-06-25T18:59:01Z Marching across the stage and flopping into a chair, Sarah Crépin, wears a nearly transparent dress that borders on a shade of dingy gray. Dance Review | 'L?Homme Assis Dans le Couloir': An Erotic Encounter Further Charged by Voyeurism 2010-02-22T05:57:00Z Few other technological advancements have inspired the same level of reverence among parents, bordering on religious devotion, as the Snoo. The Snoo is a $1,500 bassinet — and a touchstone for parental judgment, anxiety and privilege 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z I could go on and must go on — yet how to explain the seemingly unexplainable, beginning with a narrative and language that borders on the gnomic? ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z He demonstrated prodigious breath control in “The trumpet shall sound,” to which the trumpeter Scott McIntosh added a note of teenage exuberance bordering on excess. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ by the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-25T19:53:56Z My adoration for Caroline Flack bordered on teenage. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Ballet is an art, after all, but waiting to see what Mr. Gomes, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, will do next in a performance almost borders on sport. 2010-02-12T17:24:00Z The crumpled imperfection, bordering on the messy, meant that this man in a hurry had clothes with raw finishes and a messenger bag with flailing straps shoved under the arm. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z Its vibrant visual style and bizarre direction and performances border on the psychedelic. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’ and ‘Maniac’ 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Witty, bordering on impudent, she reveled in the night life of her professional peers and the more sedate sorties of her upper-class world. Hildreth Meière, the Forgotten Art Deco Artist 2014-05-02T18:06:08Z Thick black borders on some of the works intensify the effect; sometimes you’re not sure whether you’re looking at an actual painting or a projection of an old slide or transparency. Art In Review: Scott Olson 2013-04-18T20:33:59Z Sneaks, practices a rigorously minimal form of post-punk that borders on ascetic. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It was simple, and yet it bordered on the surreal. The power of touch: when my son visited in lockdown, we couldn't hug. It was a reminder of the saddest truth 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z By the 1960s, Mr. Lorayne was best known for holding audiences rapt with feats of memory that bordered on the elephantine. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Along those same lines Mr. Alÿs’s paintings are simple, bordering on cartoonlike; by his own admission they don’t involve painstaking craftsmanship. Shifting Sands of Societies and Politics 2011-04-28T16:06:17Z The atmosphere in the kidney-shaped, 850-square-foot office is freewheeling, bordering on fraternity house. Unseating the Chronicler of the Night 2011-02-16T22:14:54Z They speak with confidence bordering on certainty: Fleurie is pretty and, naturally, floral. Morgon, in All Its Gorgeous Complexity 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It could not have been lost on the dapper, self-regarding Douglass that men and women swooned over him, describing him in terms that bordered on erotic. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z We have long ago discarded the stereotype that American wines are by nature thick, heavy, powerful and bordering on sweet. American Rosés Without Clichés 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z I’m bordering on being in my mid-30s, and I’m still rebuilding. What do I do with my sadness? 2012-07-16T00:00:00Z Unlike many acclaimed string players, Mr. Starker used a lean, judicious vibrato — the minute, rapid variations in pitch by the left hand that can enrich a note’s sound but can also border on the histrionic. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Cummings’s spirituality can border on hokey like that, certainly earnest in a way that most politicians are not. Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They do, though, reveal the rich patterns and textures of this insect, its pleasing symmetry and forms that border on the baroque. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Hendricks, her distinctive red hair here a vermilion that borders on magenta, plays an ex-showgirl who is the last wife of the dead old man. Review: A ‘Crooked House’ of Murder and Resentment 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Watching the four main actors embrace their roles with an enthusiasm bordering on the joyful made me want to travel back in time and like it more. TV review: Hunted; Red Dwarf 2012-10-04T22:00:01Z The table of contents alone inspires a certain kind of wonder, bordering on incredulity. Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And that sinister smile she pulls out after her unexpected win in her uphill race for a state senate seat borders on demonic. "Yellowjackets" boss on the killer ending revelation "that will blow a lot of people's minds" 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z From the outside, both Kay and Arnold’s home life and their jobs seem perfectly normal, if bordering on monotonous. Movie Review: ‘Hope Springs,’ With Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones 2012-08-08T11:57:56Z As a 9-year-old girl at the outset of the Korean War, scrounging for scraps while tanks rolled by and fighter planes roared above, she has a reverence for food that borders on fanaticism. Modern Love: Mom’s Cooking Comes Between a Husband and Wife 2013-05-09T19:12:25Z The movie borders on the saccharine at times, but Vaughn, who also wrote the film, pulls it back just far enough to save it. “The Internship” teaches Gen Xers to get along with millennials 2013-06-11T19:42:00Z In these hyper-realist photos, waves crest, clouds glower and the contrast between light and dark borders on violence. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Formerly bordered on three sides, the alcoves have been reconfigured with walkways that ease visitor circulation and, on a conceptual level, reflect the porosity between these communities. Museum of Natural History’s Renewed Hall Holds Treasures and Pain 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z So the extra muscle at the door was no surprise, really, given the group’s record of ultra-violent, misogynistic lyrical content and reputation for doing shows that border on riots. Tyler, the Creator’s profane, energetic, sold-out show at Neumos 2013-04-12T00:26:36Z Few things are worse at a live festival than witnessing a set bordering on an improvisational session in a bedroom captured on a 4-track recorder. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z All three lead actors spoke of developing an appreciation bordering on reverence for the men they were portraying. Television: No Enchanted Evenings in This Pacific Warfare 2010-03-05T18:56:00Z Everyone clashes and conspires with such unapologetic flourishes of good and evil it borders on camp but miraculously never quite succumbs. TV Picks: 'Masters of Sex,' 'Crimson Field,' 'The Strain' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Despite its accuracy, The Style Invitational’s constant reportage about my diet and sexual habits borders on cruel. Style Invitational Week 1272: The hex files — think up creative curses 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Bright and a bit spritzy, this borders on a wine cocktail. Keep this Spanish red wine on your counter for easy refills — at the equivalent of under $8 a bottle 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z One issue dealt with is Barber’s discomfort — bordering on irritation — at the Adagio’s ubiquity. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z There’s two borders on this country, but they’re only stopping Mexicans. ‘S.N.L.’ Jokes About the Midterms, and Pete Davidson Pokes Fun at Himself 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The intensity of her process began with auditions last spring, which she described as “unconventional, bordering on unorthodox.” ‘The Wolves’ Uses Soccer to Visit a World of Teenage Girls 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Save perhaps that film with Mr Hanks, his acting borders on cartoonish stereotypes of the Latin cat pandering for underwear flinging fans. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z As the show’s writers, they are so self-indulgent that the story borders on the incomprehensible. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z At other times both Traylor's and Gans' work borders on the abstract — for example in "Bittersweet" where, in contrasting ways, ceramist and photographer weave rounded shapes and spiky shapes together into not-quite-figurative patterns. Sight, sound and words mix in David Traylor's 'bowl of water' at Seattle's Gallery 110 2010-11-15T05:01:00Z But they are also committed to their own proprietary molecules, sometimes with a passion bordering on worship. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Leslie plays her apprehension with such nervous energy it borders on the neurotic. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z For instance, they are both formal men with a fondness for suits and ties, a penchant for holding doors open for women and a love of order that borders on OCD. David Suchet Reflects on 25 Years as Poirot 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z In the finale, Mr. Rattle drove the rhythmic figure that runs through the movement with an insistence that bordered on the eerie. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z A final highlight was the Russian pavilion, a refreshing blast of op-art bordering on vulgarity that is out of step with the overriding themes, but nevertheless sticks in the memory. Starchitects and squatters: Venice Architecture Biennale 2012-08-29T17:58:36Z More important, Mr. Megaton’s direction of action sequences borders on atrocious. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The Black Keys started off in an Akron, Ohio, basement, armed with a dedication to classic ’60s blues-rock thump that bordered on the archival. The Black Keys return with ‘Turn Blue,’ a little more subdued and psychedelic “If the arts represent the psyche of a country, there needs to be a place for something that borders on avant-garde.” Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z When another mother ignored expert opinion and demanded further surgery for her baby daughter, her wilfulness appeared to border on the callous. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z It’s also that some scenes border on the risible — a wrestling match in space suits — and some characters, like Amelia, are short on charm and plausibility. Review: Interstellar Shows the Wonder of Worlds Beyond 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z And the writing is serviceable, sometimes bordering on strange. ‘The Woman in the Window’ Nods to Classics Old and New, From Hitchcock to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Some of the books, such as the recently released "The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook," border on culinary anthropology. Cookbooks answer: What would Tony Soprano eat? 2012-03-07T00:01:06Z But there was also an evenness of timbre, bordering on the monochromatic, in her singing, mirrored in the self-possessed composure of her character, which suggested either nerves or excessive caution. Opera Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ With Amanda Echalaz in the Title Role 2014-01-17T21:30:43Z The laughter of the audience bordered on outright cruelty. When will Bollywood offer a realistic portrayal of relationships? 2010-09-01T10:49:00Z A West Wing office bustles with activity that borders on panic. House of Cards's Spacey-less final season trailer: Netflix plays it safe 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Passing through security these days takes forever and sometimes borders on harassment. Airports, Designed for Everyone but the Passenger 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The treatment of Dorothy in The Clergyman's Daughter, adds Stock, "is similarly sexist, bordering on misogynistic". What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Ms. Liang and Ms. Olsson traveled to Asia for inspiration, like a teacup with glaze around the edge that led to a black border on Glass. Women at Google Looking Past the Glass Ceiling 2013-08-23T21:13:42Z Certainly, the album contains some great songs – "Amor Fati", "A Dedication" – but, at times, it's so soporific that it borders on background music. Working 9 to 5 2011-07-30T23:04:05Z The responses are gasps of disbelief, bordering on disgust. Sex! Savagery! Singing! It's 'Game of Thrones' as musical parody 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z On the inside of the plate, a crane flies above smaller birds and a frothy sea bordered on one side by bamboo shoots and pink peonies. A Japanese Cloisonné Charger Is on the Block 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z If the men around her are evil, disrespectful caricatures, then she’s portrayed as so strong and able she borders on villainy — sending male government officials running with the flash of her knife. A ‘Little Family’ Against the World 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z From a technical perspective, what’s most interesting about the first few hours of “Bosch” is a sense of discipline, bordering on restraint. ‘Bosch’: Yet another doleful detective, but this one might have a case 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z If the movie often borders on smug, it's equally happy to be only lightly reverent to the comics it's based on. You review: Iron Man 2 2010-05-04T11:23:00Z What would be a great oxymoron bordering on Zen koan? Perspective | Gene Weingarten’s definitive guide to the ‘nothingburger’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z True, some of this is the usual arts-admin boilerplate, although in this case "boilerplate" dignifies it somewhat, but underlying it is a disregard bordering on contempt for the station's loyal audience. Is Radio 4 just too gloomy? 2013-01-19T18:01:01Z The memories even border on the mundane, but the feelings of belonging and excitement loom large in their hearts. Perspective | Parents, the holidays are out of control. Here’s how to rein in the excess. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Both he and his 6-year-old brother have developed a deep love, bordering on obsession, with the show — which they haven’t even seen. “Hamilton” is the new “Star Wars”: My sons’ epic love for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Founding Fathers musical 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z But Rattle's overly brash approach, occasionally bordering on the strident, robbed Rachmaninov's dark-hued visions of some of their essentially enigmatic ambiguity. JLCO/LSO/Rattle – review 2012-07-27T20:30:01Z Although the posthumous publication of her extraordinary poetry made Dickinson a celebrated literary figure, during her lifetime, she was known in her hometown primarily for a reclusiveness bordering on pathology. ‘The Belle of Amherst’: Joely Richardson as Dickinson 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The Lyndon B. Johnson biographer Robert Caro noted that Johnson, then vice president, displayed a fury bordering on despair at being seated at the “loser’s table” at Robert F. Kennedy’s Virginia estate. Cultural Studies: Arranged Seating at Parties Can Be a Source of Anxiety for Guests 2012-06-01T20:07:09Z Vulliamy travelled across the border on and off for 30 years. Observer writer wins Ryszard Kapuściński award 2013 2013-05-18T16:26:12Z Released 10 years later, within weeks of the handover of Hong Kong to China, “Full Alert” tells a similar story in a radically different key — deeply melancholic, bordering on nihilistic. New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It's worth noting that these are fastidiously considered desserts, bordering on sin if ordered before lunchtime — not unlike Italians' strictness about cappuccinos being solely a morning beverage. The extremely '90s history of the flavored latte 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z A BBC critic, Nicholas Barber, had a more mixed reaction, and proffered, like some others, that the movie’s nostalgia bordered on the treacly. ‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Two stories border on creepy, but each deftly manages to avoid being truly distasteful. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Most of the entries border on what might be called musical metaphysics: articulation, chance, composition, continuity, deduction, duration, form, idea, language, material, notation, perception, rhythm, structure, succession, theme, timbre, tradition, variation. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z And then we waited — so long that the pause bordered on worrying. Review: ‘Fortuna Desperata,’ in Which David Hallberg Explores the Beginnings of Ballet 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z On a certain level, “The Answers” is a dystopian project; it borders on science fiction. ‘The Answers’ Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Sadness and a sense of caution bordering on fear guided “Children Will Listen” from “Into the Woods.” Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series at Allen Room 2013-02-03T22:53:42Z From its northern border on West Olympic Place, it plunges nearly 250 feet to the waterfront. The scene in Kinnear Park, 1900 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The theater itself borders on ramshackle but the performances proved believable, even riveting. Next Stop: Overcoming the Past in Lively Kampala 2013-08-15T21:56:49Z As The Patriot Ledger said, the movie was “a cold, calculated re-enactment bordering on exploitation.” ‘Patriots Day’ Disconnect Between Bostonians and the Rest of Us 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “Reed,” a new series on BET, isn’t actually a spinoff of “The Cosby Show,” but the resemblance borders on copyright infringement. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z It’s one of a handful of songs here about saying goodbye, upon either death or geographical relocation, and it borders on harrowing even though it was originally written to communicate resignation. Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack: Folk and Mirrors 2013-11-22T13:00:38Z Leaping off a 63-story skyscraper in Panama certainly borders on insane. ‘Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D’: Crazy Stunts Turn Slick 2012-08-07T23:32:21Z He tends to answer questions with an intense earnestness that borders on confession, “oh, gosh” punctuating many of his sentences. Nicholas Sparks hits a tear-soaked milestone: 20 years of sentimental love stories 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z True, some of the “Christmas Spectacular” borders on appalling. Times Critics’ Last-Chance Dance Picks 2013-12-26T21:33:00Z On a certain level, this is a dystopian project; it borders on science fiction. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It can’t be soon enough for the singer’s legions of fans and chroniclers, many of whom border on the obsessive. A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Amy Pond’s journey with the Doctor is whimsical and wondrous, bordering on silly before it topples into the monstrous encounter with the Kin. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In any case, your boss’s response to complaints from the Bloodhound Gang is hamhanded, bordering on hostile. @Work Advice: A department’s scent-free policy doesn’t pass the smell test 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The Garland Waltz is a conglomeration of eye-popping hues, bordering on color clash, including mustard and turquoise outfits for the Waltzers and green and red outfits for the Violin Pages. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z But the opinions expressed are consensual, bordering on banal. Imran Yusuf – review 2012-11-12T18:27:59Z Thirty years of admiration bordering on the obsessive, then a date, then dumped. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z And let’s forget the euphemistic language, bordering on the mendacious, in the reiteration of words such as “collaboration” and “partnership.” They come to bury the Corcoran, not to praise it The sexual situations border on being offensive, relying as they do on stereotypes straight out of pulp fiction. For ‘Transparent,’ Accusations Against Jeffrey Tambor Burst an Idealistic Bubble 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The housekeeper treats her with suspicion bordering on disgust, but Klara’s programming doesn’t include resentment, and, in any case, she gets along well with Josie, and Josie’s mother seems particularly taken with her. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z We also met a young man from Sweden, and another from Denmark, who said he began at the Mexico border on April 29 and was hoping to reach Canada in a week. A day with long-haul hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z By Mr. McIntyre’s standards, this narrative is bordering on the twee. In Philadelphia, Ballet Neighbors Divided by Style 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The ethical point of view has its inspirational and novelty value, but the aesthetic POV — the pretense that most of what we see is “found footage” — borders on the ludicrous. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z Still, the poetry that poured forth from this burgher’s daily rendezvous with his “interior paramour” — to use a phrase from a Stevens lyric — can, for the casual reader, border on opaque. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z The addition of “Paths” actually brought a welcome dose of variety to a program that was otherwise so aesthetically cohesive as to border on the monochrome. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z In a surprise move, East German officials opened the border on November 9 — 25 years ago. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago From there it degenerates into a horrid walk-off bordering on, as Hunter says, a game of "Oppression Olympics." Let's have a cringey talk about multiracial identity, from "Ginny & Georgia" to Harry and Meghan 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z There, she said, she was in a state of “visual arousal bordering on the spiritual.” Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z Having moved to Paris after living in Philadelphia and New York, I arrived with a reverence for French cuisine that bordered on the religious. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Rhoden’s attempt at musicality is to fill the spaces between the notes — as he does in “Moon Over Jupiter,” set to Rachmaninoff — with movement so jerky it borders on frantic. Dance Review: The Movements Between the Notes 2011-05-26T21:41:08Z The effect is cumulative, and this novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z And the ordinariness of Hy Gilbert’s lyrics sometimes border on the offensive, as when the women sing in broken English. Review: ‘Sayonara’ Reimagines a Story of Cross-Cultural Love 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Needless to say, this quarter-arsed gesture has been reported with admiration bordering on the clinical. How do you know when the Oscars have gone vegan? Answer: they keep telling you 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z This month, Iceland started accepting vaccinated travelers, and Greece recently announced that it would open its borders on May 14. Vaccines and summer travel: What families need to know 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Though the “American Idiot” connection of punk, drugs and military action borders on incoherence, these elements are also at times so tightly linked that it’s dazzling. A Tour of Tony-Nominated Choreography 2010-06-03T22:41:00Z Where the statutes survive, it is because state legislators worry that sponsoring repeal would “border on political suicide.” Your affair might be illegal: Inside the complicated world — and 21 states — where adultery remains against the law 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Twenty years of not quite making it have borne in him not bitterness but a sort of jovial brutalism, bordering on scorn. Rufus Sewell: 'I've never played a vampire before' 2012-06-14T19:00:04Z Shortly after the movie opens, Mr. Ma gets down to business on a jammed street scene bordering on the chaotic. Review: Compassion Is Expensive for a Cabby in ‘Old Stone’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z And now that cinematic borders on streaming services have all but dissolved, it’s easier than ever to experience a different culture by way of a series from around the world, including Latin America. 6 Shows to Stream From Latin America 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z While a tale or two borders on the cryptic, most trigger shadowy epiphanies as they alight on moments of perfect ambiguity or oblique revelation. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z Ives said Polanski's attention to detail on "Venus" sometimes bordered on obsessive. For 'Venus in Fur' author, working with Roman Polanski was 'heaven' 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Estevez, 49, and Mr. Sheen, 71, have made other films together — “The War at Home” and “Bobby” — but their joint commitment to “The Way” borders on fanaticism. Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen Collaborate on ?The Way? 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z By 2001, we were all feeling empowered and exuded so much self-confidence that we bordered on aggressive: From “Bent” to “Fancy”: What the past 10 songs of the summer say about us 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The Deer Tick singer had long subsisted on a frightening diet of drugs, alcohol and raucous, volatile live performances that bordered on the scary and insane. Deer Tick has settled down, and that’s good 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In his later work, Mr. Snelson elaborated on his atomic structures using digital imagery, which allowed him to summon forth complex, intertwined forms bordering on the fantastical. Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The East Side Gallery was transformed into an open-air gallery months after East Germany opened its borders on Nov. 9, 1989, and is now covered in colorful murals painted by about 120 artists. Berlin wall removal project stalls amid protests 2013-03-01T13:58:17Z Now, looking ever so secretive and making exaggerated spy-like moves that border on mime, she shoos him away. 'The Americans' Recap: The Moment Finally Arrives 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z In particular, the choreography for Clara and the Nutcracker as the grown-up Prince and Princess is intricate, bordering on overwrought, with numerous lifts, supported swoons, bravura supported steps and detailed characterization. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? at BAM - Review 2011-12-15T23:14:49Z Sorry to pick on book seven again, but this killing seemed unnecessary, bordering on animal cruelty. 9 Other Things J.K. Rowling Got Wrong 2014-02-03T21:09:53Z Some of Samantha Bee’s best segments border on investigative TV journalism. Late Night Wishes President Trump a Happy Birthday 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It was a classic medical comedy with a New Yorker protagonist leading a romantic life that bordered on bedlam. ‘The Mindy Project’ was never really woke. But at least it starred a South Asian woman 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z But if you care for any of those things, and even if that concern borders on the obsessive, you will benefit from Lawrence’s investigations. When Rent Was Cheap and Dance Music Reigned 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But in public, Harris exhibits a watchfulness that borders on wariness. Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti) 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It took a surprising amount of energy to fake a deeper voice, and even then, the almost-baritone bordered on parody. “Hey, I’m Peter”: On living with a gay voice 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, roulette wheels will stop spinning and blackjack games will cease at Sinatra's old resort that straddles the Nevada-California border on Lake Tahoe's north shore at Crystal Bay. Casino at ex-Rat Pack hangout closes at Tahoe 2010-03-31T08:51:00Z Slow tempos thus predominate, and in Mr. Pidó’s case they often border on the sluggish. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z In Henry, a tall man with glassy blue eyes and ears bordering on the prominent, they found a spokesman for the Healy line. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Fife’s parents exhibited an “unbroken sadness and lassitude and constant low-level anxiety and detachment and pessimism bordering on despair,” which he believes he “caught” from them. After a Life Built on Lies, a Dying Man Comes Clean 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Compared to that exemplary print, the later work in the show borders on the baroque. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits ‘Of This World’ and beyond 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Melodrama runs on a contrast that borders on absurdity—the grandeur of passions arising in ordinary circumstances involving everyday people. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z A running joke about magic mushrooms borders on parody. Entertaining 'Dead Lands' skips over Maori realities 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Israel and indeed all countries bordering on the Mediterranean are thereby eligible to participate. How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win) 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Some musicians distinguish themselves with interpretations that border on the eccentric. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z My appreciation for most summer produce borders on veneration. I dismissed yellow summer squash as boring until it broke me out of burn out 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The American take whitewashed the tale so liberally that it bordered on cultural appropriation. The live-action ‘Mulan’ is not the first retelling of the legend. Or the second. Or the sixth. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z To sign up for a romantic role opposite a diva is an act of humility bordering on charity. A divine showing of divas put the ‘broad’ in Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Here was a band who knew just how good they were – Guy Chadwick's songwriting could border on florid, but the grandeur of the performances suits it to a tee. The House of Love: The House of Love – review 2012-11-22T23:00:01Z Others have met the border on its own terms, tapping its power as both a ruthless market for people and drugs and a ruthless battlefield for racism and fear. This Season’s Breakout Star: The Border 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Michael Potts imbues that character with a smiling worldliness just bordering on cynicism. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Going by what is here, he tended increasingly to sacrifice robust physicality for an elegance bordering on preciousness. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z His approach to his work, meanwhile, borders on the evangelical. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z The impulse is usually fleeting, however, and instead, we embrace the ritual of vicariously basking in the glory of the genuine article, the sort of glory that borders on rapture. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z But his first attempt to work with children, at a bar mitzvah, bordered on disastrous. Spare Times for Children for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z If I am honest those characters that were not stereotyped were bordering on ridiculous themselves, a modern day Holocaust survivor who is fighting Nazis from the suburbs for example. Shelter by Harlan Coben - review 2012-06-20T14:00:00Z Throughout “Lust for Life,” she assigns new melodies to classic lyrics with a consistency that borders on assaultive. Review | Lana Del Rey suddenly sounds like the poet laureate of post-truth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z His spiel on Trump has blossomed into hyperbolic boosterism that borders on sycophancy. Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that’s no joke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Savory flavors should border on salty because the wrapper subdues the mix, and the heat from ginger, pepper or chiles should tingle but not overpower. Now’s the Time for Homemade Dumplings 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The people who live in the village of Glass are a sad lot, their lives suffused with a grayness that borders on oppressive. Words of Wisdom (and Wildness): Distinctive Story Collections 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Her portrait of the poet, curator and critic Frank O'Hara – with its horrid, unattractive mouth and receding hairline – show something bordering on dislike. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z Savannah continued to dish that the fierce judgements from detractors bordered on being “death threats,” prompting them to respond. Famous YouTube parents apologize for 'cruel' April Fools' joke on daughter after backlash 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z I don't blame them: It's very, very weird, and can sometimes border on something less resembling comedy and more resembling a terrifying Dadist media installation. "Tim and Eric's" Tim Heidecker gets serious about music 2011-03-09T15:10:00Z If you're feeling particularly brave, you can choose to layer several wallpaper borders on top of one another. The classic decorating trick that’s making a comeback 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z His movements around New York are fodder for tabloids and tweets, some suggesting that his past behavior bordered on criminal. Disgraced by Scandal, Mario Batali Is Eyeing His Second Act 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The anti-mothering in movies like “Psycho,” “Carrie,” “Antichrist” and “Hereditary” is so blatant it borders on sacrilege — no accident, as each of these movies deals in zealotry as well as maternal abuse. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne described the overall effect as “graceful and direct, bordering on delicate.” Los Angeles’s Hunt House Could Be Demolished 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet Gibney's sober, sure-footed documentary claims that the issue is widespread, bordering on the endemic, and that the church holds records of abuse within the priesthood that date right back to the fourth century. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – review 2013-02-14T21:30:01Z There’s no doubting the finesse of the production, but the technique is so finely honed and executed that it borders on self-parody. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s what everyone deserves: a level of professionalism that borders on subversive. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z At the same time, though, Food Network still provided something bordering on tangible to its viewers. As Giada departs The Food Network, an appreciation of the channel she helped define 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Suárez suffers with a dignity reminiscent of Bette Davis and other great screen heroines of the past, even as she surrenders to a longing that borders on mania. Review: Another Woman on the Verge in Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Akhavan admits that the film borders on autobiographical but prefers to call it “extremely personal.” ‘Appropriate Behavior’ filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on her debut film and how she got her role on ‘Girls’ 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z There is also no doubt that Facebook sees architecture — for all the ways in which the Gehry design is genuinely efficient, bordering on anonymous — as a way to distinguish itself from its Silicon Valley rivals. A low-key Facebook building? In Gehry's hands, Zuckerberg has it both ways 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z My grandfather was a working class man from the Bronx whose own dyslexia was so profound, he bordered on illiterate. My father, his honor: Losing his prestigious job likely saved his life 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The actors playing Mandela run the same risk: being hobbled by respect bordering on adoration. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z But Berman is building a hero: her story doesn't need a strong woman, let alone a status for her protagonist that is diminished, bordering on irrelevancy. A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z Getting a new permit from the security services, the F.S.B., can take two weeks, and the rules border on the absurd. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Still, he sometimes delivers his advice with an intensity so earnest it borders on self-parody. Review | Raising a boy in 2020 is tough. Three new books aimed at fathers offer some guidance. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Is the entire industry just profiting off insecurity bordering on dysmorphia? ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z She was known for being brash, bordering on harsh, with her trademark invasive questions that more than a few times seemed to cross a line. "The View" paid tribute to Barbara Walters. What they said and didn't say 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Unlike Walser’s novel, which is a hodgepodge of gossip, quotidian musings and exuberant satire, the film’s actions are solemn and languid with a grimness that almost borders on self-parody. My streaming gem: why you should watch Institute Benjamenta 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The color palette is monotone, bordering on dreary. '24 Days' a gripping, anguished account of a kidnapping 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z But honestly, this borders on downright silly as virtually everyone in Paris speaks English at some level and most visitors hear almost more English than French on the street. Young American in Paris tale is lightweight but amusing 2012-04-18T22:57:04Z The group can go big, busting out a kind of bravado that borders on camp, or deliver perfect harmonies over simple ballads plucked on acoustic guitars. Watch out, country bros. The Pistol Annies are back. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Others get surreal — one episode features a nail salon owner who responds to negative customer feedback with sequences of emojis so bizarre and elaborate that they border on sinister. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The XKR has ample power, while the S has power that borders on dangerous if you aren’t prepared for what is unleashed with a gentle tap of the throttle. Jaguar XKR Is Hot Rod Sweet on LA 2011-10-03T20:42:29Z But its structure is too straggly to suit a piece of such stylistic limitation, and the charm borders on faux-naïf cuteness. Review: Mark Morris Dance Performs ‘Whelm’ and ‘Words’ at BAM 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Hays, stationed beside a rocky outcrop, was playing a Wurlitzer electric piano — refreshingly, given the day’s preponderance of battery-powered synthesizers — with an introspective focus that bordered on the perverse. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z The house was bordered on two sides by a 30-acre horse farm, so the views were so soothing. House Tour: Southampton, N.Y. 2011-06-16T23:33:09Z MacLean's own folk borders on the traditional with a lot of poetic Scottish nostalgia woven in, such as the haunting "Ready for the Storm". From Doc Watson to lifetime folk award, Dougie MacLean sings on 2013-01-30T10:50:13Z Whether this magnetism is passed from mentor to protégé or is merely the mark of similar souls, Ms. Eyal’s dancers speak of her with a sense of reverence bordering on obsession, a feeling she returns. Israeli Troupe Has Hearts Wide Open 2013-07-19T18:52:05Z The look was vintage movie poster, bordering on 1940s noir, imbuing Mr. DiCaprio with a mysterious allure befitting Humphrey Bogart back in the day. In Athens, the Last Man Painting 2014-02-26T22:55:35Z The attendees seem a little less stuffy, the dresses and personalities sometimes border on outrageous, and there never seems to be a shortage of moments where I find myself wondering, "What was she thinking?" Rihanna, a sophisticated woman 2011-06-08T19:32:16Z In each instance, that parting image borders on sentimental, and you wonder: Why did Mr. Abraham repeat himself so quickly? Review: Kyle Abraham, Sleekly Protesting Racial Injustice 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Life Imitates Art: Like her paintings, Ms. Papademetropoulos’s personal life borders on the surreal. Her Hyper-Realistic Art Is a Parallel Universe 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The understated narrative, presented in a way that borders on twee, but never trite, contains themes of surprising weight and consequence. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s hard to figure out what this odd, bordering on bizarre historical something or other is trying to do, but it’s firmly focused on the sick soul of America. Review: ‘Damnation’ and the Sick Soul of 1930s America 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The wine was fresh and lively, with aromas of dark fruit and a spicy herbal quality bordering on anise. Finding Wine and Meaning in Ancient Vineyards 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z If you have heard his voice, then you will know that it is rich and sonorous, barrel-aged, with cadences that border on the biblical. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Yet Mottola turns their talents to the most distinctive angles, letting Hamm’s deceit play as itself deceitful, giving Gadot a fierce sense of commitment that borders on camp, and letting Fisher’s brittle energy turn fierce. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and the Marketing of Cinematic Charisma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The show is gorgeous to look at, bordering on high fashion at times, and it would undoubtedly land upon a better sense of itself if given a series. 'The most original thing I have seen in forever': do Amazon's new pilots deliver? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z In fact, as far as she was concerned there were so many it bordered on being unreadable. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Bengali in Platforms is more troubling, featuring the grossly insensitive refrain – bordering on a taunt – about how "life is hard enough when you belong here". Morrissey, this joke isn't funny anymore 2010-09-03T22:25:00Z With her impeccable timing, she infused the familiar melody with sharp jabs of her limbs that bordered on manic. Dance Review: Camille A. Brown and Dancers at the Joyce Theater 2012-01-29T22:55:07Z Superficially, this certainly seems innocuous, bordering on positive. Dove’s dirty, “beautiful” scam: Why the brand’s new viral ad is so patronizing 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Family Guy, meanwhile, has become a delightfully bizarre and sometimes self-indulgent irreverent pantomime that can border on nihilism. When Peter Met Homer: A First Look at the Family Guy–Simpsons Crossover 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Some of this material bordered on the fatuous. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z Often, he borders on comic, a caricature obsessed with easy sex, limitless drugs and tall tales. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z For Bernstein, the act of creating new toys bordered on euphoric. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The maneuver ended in a standstill bordering on retreat, and the North American movie business remained stuck in its months-long trough. Box Office: Battle L.A. Explodes; Mars Needs Bombs 2011-03-13T05:50:00Z As for the roots of a social predictability bordering on ritual, Mr Murphy finds them in the Tokugawa shogunate, when sword-carrying samurai were entitled to cut anyone down on the slightest pretext. In the air 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Luke is rash and self-centered, his attention to Cora bordering on creepy, which makes the sardonic lines that Dillane delivers so well fall flat. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Some of the scenes bordered on intrusive – they certainly felt that way from a viewer's perspective – but I think a film like this needs to rake the soul a little bit, so you get it. TV review ? 23 Week Babies: The Price of Life; Jamie's Dream School; The Great British Food Revival 2011-03-09T22:00:00Z Cho, for what its worth, lands his strikes and kicks as well as he can, but he's playing a character with abilities bordering on superhuman. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z As Swift teased out song titles like a siren bingo hall caller, fans expressed wonderment, bordering on exasperation, about the late-night reveals of "Midnights." Sleep deprivation and Taylor Swift: what the demands of modern fandom say about us 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Unfortunately the book suffers from a mindset common for the time period in which it was set, but completely out of place in the 1990's, a pervasive sense of classism that borders on social Darwinism. How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But studios court the members with the kind of reverence that borders on cynicism. The TV Watch: Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility 2011-01-17T05:43:03Z Its explicit content sometimes borders on disturbing and controversial as we watch young actress after young actress go nude for some mature-level sex scenes. Gen Z doesn't want explicit shows. So who are all these sexy teen dramas for then? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “Song Exploder” is more like “Dissect,” a podcast series that takes an encyclopedic approach to album appreciation, except Hirway’s sessions are crisper and his interest in craft borders on the psychological. ‘Song Exploder’ Reveals the Eureka Moments Behind the Hits 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z They begin a romance that borders on the strange, then grows downright eerie when Jean begins to suspect that Simone is a serial killer. Review: She Hosts ‘Women Who Kill,’ and May Be in Love With One 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z She is a dainty sprite, bordering on fey in the mold of French film heroine "Amelie." Katie Holmes, armed and dainty in vigilante satire 'Miss Meadows' 2014-04-23T13:04:51Z The question mark over the performance for me is that it bordered on being a little bit exploitative – Phoenix's psychological unravelling on screen. Screen Actors Guild snubs Joaquin Phoenix as critics question The Master 2012-12-12T22:54:00Z It’s not just producers of lowbrow TV series, but respected news outlets who increasingly treat the Amish with an alarming disrespect bordering on bigotry – often clearly in violation of their own journalistic guidelines. “Amish Mafia”: Is there really such a thing as an Amish thug? 2012-12-12T19:08:00Z His blow-by-blow approach occasionally bogs down with unnecessary detail about peripheral characters and story lines, and his efforts to protect sources can border on obfuscation. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Her lingering sense of being an outsider borders on paranoia. Movie Review: Taking Joan Rivers Seriously 2010-05-13T15:28:00Z Advice to visit Seattle’s Pike Place Market may border on cliché — but for a good reason. Heading to Seattle? What’s New in Washington’s Seaside City 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Labor Party Deputy Chair Tom Watson called it “insensitive bordering on cruel.” A reporter’s on-air horror show 2012-10-05T19:08:00Z A soppy, solipsistic and juvenile declaration and cop-out bordering on the delusional and contradicting Christianity and Islam, neither of which recognize the other, and both of which espouse universalist pretensions. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Baked, their skins stay dark, but their innards turn a shade of pink that borders on fuschia. The spice is right — and unexpected — for this plum cake 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Depending on your perspective, this is either heartening or, at a time when the trend seems to be toward mutually agreed-upon porous borders on sexual fidelity, atavistic. Women on the verge: Is "Mammals" really about marriage and monogamy after all? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Each home comes with its own small backyard that borders on the larger common area shared by all. What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Its pleasures border on the painful; you will have to like the sound of breaking glass. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The one part of the symphony that borders on the humorous is the repeated, hammered chords of its final bars. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The slick translation by Sam Taylor keeps every sentence piqued to a frenzy bordering on farce, a self-satirizing convulsion that both reflects and mocks these characters’ hysteria. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s a lively, feel-good romp with plenty of irreverent humor, though the narrative borders on hagiography, and its core message about embracing male vulnerability is labored to the point of soppiness. ‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Järvi's brand of theatricality borders on affectation, but it went down well with the young players and proved suitably dramatic in the macabre showpiece of Liszt's Totentanz. National Youth Orchestra/Kristjan J?rvi ? review 2011-01-06T21:44:01Z I’m going to talk today about one of the least acknowledged but most important tools of the successful columnist, namely, a crippling neurosis bordering on mental illness. Gene accepts Ernie Pyle award with his usual neuroticism. But thanks, anyway. It’s a frosty treat that — with its peat and bittersweetness — borders on savory. At Ballard’s Hot Cakes, spiked floats and boozy shakes 2013-04-17T00:07:40Z The scherzo whisked by, bordering on the frantic yet never crossing that line. Gianandrea Noseda Conducts Beethoven at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z As I begin work on a new feature length “spec” script, my third, I look forward to the months-long project with excitement and even something bordering on serenity. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z The initial Tintin adventures sometimes carried messages that bordered on political propaganda, and the rough stereotypes seen in the early strips could still be considered quite controversial. ?Tintin? Film Casts Cars Among Star Performers 2011-11-27T03:07:02Z This sensitive and impressive piece of work is too long to quote, but another aspect of Mr. Cullen’s work may be given, and that is his keen, almost epigrammatic gift that borders on satire. Review: ‘Color,’ by Countee Cullen 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Strathairn and Dillahunt border on doing some scenery chewing, but it may be that Newton does not trust them to underplay. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z I’m certain Christ flashing a healthy mop bordered on blasphemy. What You Remember About ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Price admits that in early drafts, “some of the Greenlandic characters bordered on cliché, because I didn’t know better.” A Darker ‘Borgen’ Returns, and Heads to Greenland 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z After all, bongo punctuations and various satiric percussive pops border on Spike Jones, the wacky 1950s bandleader. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Castillo’s work proves both challenging and interesting for many scholars. “Some of it borders on journalism and some of it borders on fine art,” Castillo says. Why Oscar Castillo's photos of Chicano life and protest are essential for understanding L.A. 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z A few lines fall flat, some reveal an inventive flair still at work and one or two moments border on the inspired. TV review: Hunted; Red Dwarf 2012-10-04T22:00:01Z Rich, dense and packed with a filling bordering on stew-like, the pot pie may be the paramount example of cold-weather comfort food. Stuff your pie crust with chicken, peas and root vegetables and put apple in the rearview mirror 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Instead, the film mostly relies on Thornton’s overdone malice — his character, in his punked-up, Southern Walter White look, often borders on the cartoonish. ‘Devil’s Peak’ Review: The Curse of a Family Name 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z To the outsider, the sense of identification borders on the creepy. Review | ‘In Chocolate We Trust’: The bittersweet tale of Hershey’s philanthropy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z I loathe the sight of piled-up dishes and prefer a tidy workspace bordering on unfeasible. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Since nothing Cooper said seemed to satisfy the doubters, it eventually bordered on tiresome television. CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'I'm not an opinion person' 2011-06-13T16:40:05Z Batsheva dancers always have presence: a self-assured directness that borders on arrogance. Review: Gibney Dances Ohad Naharin, Minus the Inner Drive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z A cool number bordering on a cold fish, Elizabeth eschews all permanent human bonds and goes to great lengths to dissolve other people's as well. "Mother and Child": Pushing past adoption clich?s 2010-05-07T11:03:00Z It should not have surprised me, then, that when I returned home from our talk to read his “Katrina Lexicon,” I found impatience bordering on disdain for the “Federal Levee Failure crowd.” Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z One principal said the cards "bordered on the occult." 11 infamous '90s school bans 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z She is – how can I put this delicately – very intense, bordering on unlikeable. Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Using his sister, Nan, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby, as the models, he created a pair of Midwestern characters — some would say caricatures — with stern, bordering on sour, expressions. Masterpiece Rental: My Life in the ‘American Gothic’ House 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The New York Daily News said the audience found his jokes "tasteless, bordering on nasty" and made him "frontrunner for 2011's worst performance by an awards show host". And the award for rudeness goes to ? Ricky Gervais! 2011-01-17T19:52:58Z His grotesque nature is so vile that it borders on unbelievable. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 12: Deal With the Devil 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Baroness, from Savannah, Ga., has a far looser allegiance to its genre, bordering on strategic disregard. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z The difference is that Dev/Ansari has this cultural baggage he doesn’t know what to do with and he has to contend with ethnic expectations and presumptions that border on the racist. Aziz Ansari: ‘Being funny is like having a superpower’ 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Some reflections are vague, airy, even bordering on cringe. Descended From Shamans and Ghost Whisperers 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes that expression is experimental, yielding extreme distortions that border on abstraction. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z The film follows him to India and back, depicting the culture clashes in both countries — and doing so with an emphasis on comedy that borders on the culturally insensitive. Tom Cruise in 'Edge of Tomorrow' takes on past, future 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Wine review: “There is often astringency that borders on a little too much rusticity …” PE: “If you like turpentine, you’ll love this wine.” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Expensive food bordering on the annoyingly healthy has replaced hot dogs and burgers, Heaven forswear. Back-to-Basics Bowling (No Fancy-Pants Stuff) 2011-04-28T20:14:48Z The link borders on something Trojan might use for testing purposes. At City Perch, enjoy the bread and desserts — if you can get a moment’s peace 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The drawback to this kind of immersive décor is that it can border on the theme park-ish, turning the specific into the ersatz and treading dangerously close to kitsch. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z But being on a flight with three anchors can border on the bizarre. Frequent Flier: Jittery News Anchors Aloft Smell News 2010-09-14T21:16:00Z Exquisitely illustrated, and filled with experiences of misfortune bordering on the farcical, Mr. Sattouf’s book is a disquieting yet essential read. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The casting and direction of the beautiful Anne Hathaway as the pretty, bespectacled, determined Emma, a sort of Yorkshire cross between Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy, borders on the disastrous. One Day ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:52Z I am filled with disbelief bordering on shame that I went this long without it. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Many have even shared that they believe his method was mean or bordering on child abuse, according to thousands of tweets that use the term "Bean Dad." Dad refused to open bean can for daughter, enraging Twitter: ‘Do the exact opposite’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “It borders on the ethically suspect,” he said. For Joan Rivers’s Doctor, Fame Delivers Its Bill 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “I knew it would be difficult, bordering on crazy,” he said. Animating van Gogh’s Life With 62,450 Oil Paintings 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Since it first appeared in Cannes, Terrence Malick’s latest film, his fifth feature in four decades, has inspired enthusiasm bordering on the ecstatic and no small measure of bafflement. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z Even after I became a journalist, the idea of writing books seemed ambitious bordering on obnoxious. Motherlode Blog: The Making of a Thriller Writer 2012-08-20T21:51:23Z That the first half nevertheless offered moments of excitement was entirely because of the energetic performance of Augustin Hadelich, who threw himself into the virtuosic solo violin part with a passion bordering on impatience. Music Review: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Leads the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-20T02:50:07Z Walton judged it "a proper novel, rather than a disguised travelogue", but one leaving an "overwhelming impression … of a disillusionment with Africa that borders on despair". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:18Z “What we like to do is something that really borders on fantasy and reality,” he said. The Blonds find religion at New York Fashion Week 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Its sense of hope borders on the axiomatic — who doesn’t believe that children are the future? Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Along with the void of the Sahara, he wrote, the fecundity of the tropics could propel him into “a state bordering on euphoria.” In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Built in 1673, the self-proclaimed oldest tavern in America is antique bordering on morose. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Newport, R.I. 2011-06-16T18:52:20Z Although it contains a robust amount of data and plentiful citations, it’s also sweetened with a reverence for its subject that borders on obsession. Review: ‘Nutella World’ delves deep into that jar of hazelnut spread 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z She cites Josef Beuys and Yves Klein among her inspirations and, to a degree, she has a similar kind of charisma, inspiring a devotion that borders on the obsessive from her legions of fans. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z He was confident on set, sometimes bordering on the dictatorial. Michael Winner, ‘Death Wish’ Director, Dies at 77 2013-01-22T05:08:34Z She felt isolated, and struggled to cope with the exhausting emotional work and harassment that came with the job, as well as the constant body shaming that often bordered on abuse. Cam girl reality: an enticing illusion leaves many models poor and defeated 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z If some of the design borders on the corporate, the cooking helps personalize breakfast, lunch or dinner. Review | At Old Maryland Grill, every night is homecoming 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z An opening movement that anticipates Bruckner’s sensations of tremulous piety and majestic ascent gives way to a clockwork ballad, a show of blithe spirits and an acidic jollity that borders on mania. Music Review: Interpreting Several Phases of a Singular Creator 2011-02-27T22:57:49Z Television reflects all kinds of vestigial double standards, and an enduring one is the different perception of anger: a man’s wrath often signals passion or zeal; a woman’s rage or orneriness borders on crazy. | 'Body of Proof': Feisty Types? Try Looking in the Morgue 2011-03-28T23:02:39Z Her anxiety is understandable; he’s something of a father figure to Mounir, who treats him with deference bordering on obsequiousness. Movie Review: In ‘Our Children,’ From Joachim Lafosse, Life Turns Tragic 2013-08-02T00:16:04Z She’s also a pathological liar whose frozen affect borders on shellshocked and whose writing aspirations serve mainly to deceive unwitting readers of her blog. Review: In ‘Nancy,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Connection 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He's an adult in a world where he used to be a teenager, and all of the life experiences he bumps into are beyond his experience and bordering on overwhelming. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z And there are several clever, bordering on clever-clever, gags from a comic who's never afraid to look cocksure in the name of humour. Tom Rosenthal ? review 2011-08-17T17:44:23Z Picard always did the right thing, but his moral certainty, bordering on self-righteousness, was balanced by doubt and guilt that could become temporarily crippling when it served the writers’ purposes. Review: ‘Picard’ Is, Finally, ‘Star Trek: Peak TV’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Her performance is reserved, bordering on seeming a little shell-shocked, as Molly works on getting her Earth-legs back under her; the show’s direction is quiet and composed. REVIEW: Halle Berry Stars in CBS's Extant 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z No convoluted backstory, no sardonic attitude, no pretension whatsoever: just easy, straightforward video game fun, elevated by splashy visuals, tight controls and an attention to detail that borders on perfectionism. ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Review: This Ain’t No Game 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z From his tense shoulders to the way he grinds his teeth in moments of stress, Howard embodies a world-weariness that borders on exhaustion, looking harried and bedraggled even at his most well-rested and upbeat. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z A gang of 3-D-modelled denizens, seated around a long table, stared at me in a blank manner that bordered on hostile. A Virtual-Reality Program to Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The novel has the immersive imaginative power of fable; it also deepens Moore’s career-long investigation into the kind of collapsed rationality that borders on genius and might, very easily, be misdiagnosed as madness. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z He energizes his soldiers with grandiloquence bordering on the Shakespearean, warning of “bloodthirsty rogues and unrepentant cutthroats bent on nothing short of our pitiless destruction.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The passage is prime Marías, close — bordering on obsessive observation of real physical movement that leads to a keen, and lovely, luminous poetic reveal. Javier Marías' elegant novel 'Thus Bad Begins' is filled with secrets 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z My research was painstaking, bordering on stalker-ish, as well as long-winded, since Google's founders were about 12 at the time. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z As seen in this knockout exhibition, they are consistently overcast, bordering on gloomy. Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin 2010-03-11T21:54:00Z The patness of this description is striking; its laziness borders on indifference. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Nominees are plied with alcohol and the mood is boisterous, bordering on the ribald. The King's Speech gets a royal reception 2011-01-14T19:21:22Z The gown, partly inspired by a Helmut Newton photograph and deeply slashed in front to show off Ms. Schilling’s shapely legs, bordered on the louche. Taylor Schilling Gets Red-Carpet Tips From Thakoon Panichgul 2013-12-31T20:40:45Z Abbott has also continued Howard's demonizing of asylum seekers with an energy bordering on the maniacal. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z His ways of creating a role can border on the extreme. Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And she can be aggressively intransigent, bordering on zealotry. A Complicated Collaboration for a New ‘Enemy of the People’ 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The story lines border on the insane: There are civil wars, gunfights, at least one grenade rolling around the feet of the scientists as they drive into the desert and, sadly, a violent death. Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Tino partly blames his vain, foul-mouthed mother, whom he embodies with a ruthlessness that borders on misogyny. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z His sensibility is so deadpan that it borders on a kind of derangement. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Bernardo Rondeau, the academy's director of programming, said Castle's films bordered on the avant-garde. Director William Castle, king of the gimmick, gets a retrospective 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He brought an outdoorsy vigor bordering on brashness to Haydn’s “Sailor’s Song,” and a plush and supple tone to Beethoven’s “Adelaide.” Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z I’m not telling you that they don’t have a legitimate case to investigate, but some of them are bordering on really, you know, deep-seated anger, which is never a good thing. John Kasich: ‘I think members of the Republican Party are in a coma right now’ 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Charles Helfenstein, author of “The Making of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,’” said, “I have always loved the film with a passion that borders on mania.” 50 Years Later, This Bond Film Should Finally Get Its Due 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The story is sweet but insubstantial, bordering on surreal but leaving potentially twisting paths unfollowed. Pilobolus Performs at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “The word Freedom is tattooed across his broad shoulders” and he “uses profanity in a way that borders on Zen poetry.” ‘Playing Dead,’ a Disappearing Act for the Fraudulent-Minded 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Bush’s refusal to face up to the fact that Iraq had no unconventional weapons “suggests a willfulness that borders on psychosis.” Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z For audiences accustomed to Tchaikovsky’s lyricism and Mozart’s familiar harmonies, this music borders on incomprehensibility. How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z His phrasing sometimes bordered on the formulaic, but his final duet with Ms. Monastyrska was tenderly delivered. Music Review: ‘Aida’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-25T23:03:14Z Yes, the chemistry between the intense emotion of the scene and the audience demographics bordered on the uncomfortable, but the effect also felt calculated. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z The Human Rights Watch report was assailed by Israel, whose ambassador to the United States said it bordered on antisemitism. Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z At Sotheby’s, a number of colleagues were put off by a status anxiety they said bordered on obsession, but that also served Mr. Ertug well in his work. The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In contrast, his fellow critic Leonard Feather christened Hendricks “the poet laureate of modern jazz” and said his writing showed “a talent bordering on genius.” Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And his live shows border on performance art, featuring grooving figures clad in silvery suits called the Tinsel Mammals. Helado Negro's 'Private Energy' is an experimental electronica album that quietly delves into the political 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I’m very, very low maintenance, bordering on extreme laziness. St. Vincent, an Experimenter in Music and in Makeup 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z But Alice’s almost perfect and grotesquely privileged family borders on fantasy, and so do the details of her illness. “Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s brilliant, if bogus, Oscar vehicle 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z There is also the fear of tangling with the murderous drug cartels that control access to the border on the Mexican side. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z In the Cuban capital, Kurlansky writes, Hemingway is “remembered with an obsession that borders on fetish.” Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z But at the end, she confesses to all sorts of enabling behaviors bordering on the extreme. From Urban Arias, an intimately composed look at a mind unraveled 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z "The reading here of a passionate yet complex character feels self-conscious bordering on awkward, even descending into caricature at times," it added. Nelson Mandela's life on screen 2013-12-06T12:31:26Z It's often so baroque that it borders on the absurd. Luther is back with more comic-book gore and fantastical crimes 2013-06-29T05:00:00Z Obama’s 2012 rival, the former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, was criticized throughout his campaign as being overly stiff, bordering on robotic. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He’s also gay, though this fact is handled with a discretion that borders on squeamishness. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z "We didn't want an archetypal thug, but a man who bordered on the personification of evil." Cop drama tries not to be uniform 2012-08-30T09:33:06Z A screenwriter for the series, Gustavo Bolivar, rejected the campaign against it as "bordering on censorship" and denied glorifying the criminals. Paramilitary soap opera stirs dispute in Colombia 2013-05-01T14:19:11Z But the sense of caution felt by many street artists may border on self-censorship. In an uncertain Egypt, street artists rein in their outrage 2013-07-23T22:06:31Z Re; Chris Hemsworth--"he does have.. a natural pensiveness bordering on melancholy that creates a nice frisson with his bulging muscles and heartthrob looks." ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z His German submariner act, meanwhile, sinks like a depth charge tonight: the character is taciturn bordering on catatonic, and the laughs separated by oceans of silence. Phill Jupitus – review 2013-05-19T16:45:02Z “That was a good question, but it didn’t, and doesn’t, absolve her of the insensitive, bordering on idiotic, things she’s said about racial issues.” ‘Just get rid of her’: Megyn Kelly is again in trouble, but NBC colleagues rejected her long before 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z One would set down just inside the border on the Afghan side; the other two would proceed to the staging area north of Abbottabad by a different route. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z De Lestrade and Lacomblez use their license to shape the story but they don’t sensationalize it in any way — the atmosphere is of melancholic reserve, bordering on but not quite surrendering to hopelessness. Review: ‘Laetitia,’ a French True-Crime Gem, Comes to HBO 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Viewed as a group, the number of Titanic-related books that have crossed my desk in recent weeks borders on the comical. ArtsBeat: For Titanic Anniversary, the Books Go On and On 2012-03-20T17:49:46Z On Twilight’s opening weekend in the United States, it turned out that the emo-crush was bordering on mass hysteria. Ten years of Twilight: the extraordinary feminist legacy of the panned vampire saga 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z While David’s steady transformation is unexpected, Alexis’s borders on the miraculous. Terrible name, terrific sitcom: how Schitt's Creek became a surprise hit 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z San Sebastian, rubbing up against the French border on the northwest Spanish coast, was an equal detour for both of us. In Spain’s northern Basque region, San Sebastian shines 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z There has long been a political valence to pop culture, and, separately, a fan participation that bordered on grass-roots activism. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z He took a particular interest in the psychology of alienated urban people, and his characters’ malaise often borders on the existential. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Yet his singing often sounds thin and occasionally borders on crooning. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z But the moments sure to generate the most buzz came from Whitney Houston and R. Kelly: both gave performances that bordered on bizarre, with two entirely different results. R. Kelly, Cee Lo, Whitney perform for Davis gala 2011-02-13T12:46:04Z On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon invited Halle Berry to somersault with him in a segment that bordered on “Tonight Show” self-parody. Halle Berry and Jimmy Fallon rolled down a mat and it was pretty cute 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z As Luna Luna plotted its grand return, the Austrian magazine Falter revealed Heller’s role in what he brushed off as a childish prank, but others have said borders on art forgery. How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z That passion can sometimes border on the overwrought, but it seemed especially appropriate on Levine’s song pick here, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.” 'The Voice' recap: Top 12 prove it ain't over till it's over 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z A childhood friend remembers her emotional investment in left-wing humanitarian causes as bordering on hysteria. 2010-02-11T18:40:00Z “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is a smorgasbord of noise and movement with a disregard for narrative coherence and psychological credibility bordering on the insane. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z It’s an effort that doesn’t rank high on most parents’ list of remarkable accomplishments, but for Stossel, performing this mundane microwave task borders on heroic. Scott Stossel’s secret: Atlantic editor revealed his raging anxiety. The reaction surprised him The tone was knockabout bordering on slapstick, and while neither actor is a born comedian, together they made an entertaining double act. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z In accordance with Keyboard Kid's "based" philosophy of hip-hop, a hippie-ish, genre-crossing viewpoint that borders on a lifestyle, it was about the music. Block Party 2012 day one wrap: Keyboard Kid, Allen Stone, Nacho Picasso 2012-07-21T21:01:05Z But before she can cash that ticket he’s gone, leaving her stranded and forced back into teaching, a profession for which she’s so constitutionally unsuited it borders on the criminal. | 'Bad Teacher': When the Teacher Gets High Marks in the Raunchy and the Profane 2011-06-23T22:21:08Z By Ms. Chandler’s account, her husband’s attitude toward the pregnancy has bordered on rabid. Three Former Skater Boys Confront Fatherhood 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Some of them border on performance art or objets d'art. 'Improbable Libraries' a fascinating trek among the stacks 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The majority of Layden’s characters come from privilege and wealth, some groomed from birth to attend this boarding school, and even non-legacy students describe Atwater with a devotion that borders on obsession. Welcome to Boarding School. Are You Safe Here? Good Question. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The effect borders on trivializing more than elevating, lending a cartoon quality to work that was, and is, admirable and principled. 'Worm': Inside the fight against Conficker virus 2011-10-19T23:16:04Z But she also told the outlet that his tweets border on disrespect toward her, and the coverage framing the differences in their views as antagonistic affects their children. The performative bickering of Kellyanne and George Conway: What's the end game? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z It took four days to arrive at Isle La Motte, a picturesque island several miles south of the Canadian border on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Body temperature, particularly of the hands, is important for pianists, but Gould's preoccupation bordered on the obsessive, feeding into his proto-paranoiac fear of physical contact. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z “It used to be 12.5, then 13 now there are some that are 15 percent, bordering on fortified territory. Any inside scoop on this?” Is the alcohol level of wines going up? 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Over the last five years, my love of misguided guides and peripheral poetry pamphlets has bordered on obsession, in fact my tattered collection of "killer crab" novels currently stands taller than my child. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z “Scream out your name” — anything that feels bordering on sexual makes me really uncomfortable. Grimes Invited Anyone to Make A.I. Grimes Songs. Here Are Her Reviews. 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Soothing as it is for those inside, viewers on the outside might feel an uneasy sense of something bordering on panic, or at the very least, mild anxiety while the water rises. Floodwaters make statement in 'Holoscenes' at Museum of California Art 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z And they certainly don't line up easily with the borders on our maps, to say nothing of the governments that delimit them. Turkey's restitution dispute with the Met challenges the 'universal museum' 2012-10-07T13:00:01Z Mr. Culkin, who played Warren in London 11 years ago, here becomes a funny and appropriately irritating alpha narcissist, whose will to rule borders on psychopathic. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z If some of that artistry bordered on illegality, the latest project, four years in the making, dives straight in. Cigar-smuggling pigeons to touch down at New York gallery 2013-10-23T12:06:27Z As Christopher Lloyd recalled, his original Weston tenure was unremarkable, bordering on disastrous. A Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher Lloyd 2010-08-25T17:20:00Z There are many laughs, with some moments bordering on slapstick, and lines played by the strong cast for maximum comic effect. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? review 2012-05-17T17:09:53Z She extends those borders on “Are We There,” her fourth album, which expands her intimate melodies to gut-wrenching new extremes. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Such a slippage might be excusable for a rock band, but for an electronic act whose claim was always on the future, it might border on the criminal. Severed Heads - review 2013-03-14T08:11:25Z Creating an origin story: God knows I love Rob Zombie, but his "Halloween" remake bordered on blasphemy. The four things horror movie remakes get wrong 2011-08-17T15:59:00Z Colleagues said watching him inhabit the role sometimes bordered on concerning. In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z But his lack of care and casual ease through life conceal darker qualities, his ineffectiveness masking toxic behavior that borders on abuse, particularly to the women in his life, whom he believes are beneath him. The dark side of Joel on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Even famed author Fran Lebowitz, who is known for her sardonic wit that occasionally borders on good-natured kvetching, declared herself a fan of the regional delicacy in an interview with The Cincinnati Enquirer. Does cinnamon belong in chili? The Midwest says yes 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z It is no longer just a game but borders on bullying. Carolyn Hax: Poor sportsmanship by adults offers a teachable moment 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z His debut studio album, “Money Sucks, Friends Rule,” bordered on self-parody with constant rallying cries and walloping beat drops. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Lee’s puppets were generally carefully made works of craftsmanship that bordered on art. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Occasionally, I want something that feels a little fresher, especially if the temperatures inside and outside of my kitchen are bordering on oppressive. A 3-ingredient recipe for the butteriest no-cook tomato sauce ever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z I mentioned all of this to some smart friends whose Avengers knowledge borders on obsessive. Perspective | I watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z This borders on caricature, and one is tempted to believe that the artist is using these black-hat, white-hat labels in a complicated game of parody or irony. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This is evidenced by an assortment of dresses, several of them by the imaginative Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, that border on sculpture in their form and lack of function. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The atmosphere was collegial, bordering on clubby, which made sense in a room stocked with nearly two dozen past honorees, some enlisted as presenters or performers. Music Review: 2013 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Are Honored 2013-01-15T22:24:48Z A nonchalance, bordering on puerility, colored her throwaway Halloween comment; what Lack characterized as cataclysmic seemed, to me and to some black people I talked to, somewhat boringly idiotic. NBC’s Firing of Megyn Kelly Is as Cynical as Her Hiring Was 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z None of this narrative padding is especially gripping, and some of it borders on dull, but the quality of the construction is above average. Review: ‘The Whispers,’ on ABC, an Imaginary Friend With Dangerous Intentions 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps more astounding still were the 6,500 rolls of unprocessed films, a testimony to a vocation that bordered on an obsession. Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien et al – review 2013-05-18T23:05:28Z He is a tenacious — bordering on pugnacious — interviewer, determined to ask Powell the aforementioned question from every possible angle. “American Anarchist” contends with the deadly impact of a writer’s words 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I grew up reading and watching science fiction with a fascination that bordered on passion. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z A chapter of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, entitled Why Americans Writers and Orators are so often Bombastic, is devoted to Americans' individualism, bordering on self-centredness, and to their religious fervour. Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z “Whelm” is one of his bizarre dreamscapes; it borders on nightmare and carries suggestions of death. Review: Mark Morris Dance Performs ‘Whelm’ and ‘Words’ at BAM 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Sometimes, the poetry is prosaic bordering on spartan. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z “So many of the best thrift spots border on an almost hoarder-like approach when it comes to merchandising, with piles of stuff everywhere,” she said. Secondhand Shoppers Worry About Their Favorite Local Spots 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Instead, some of them grew eccentric and adventurous, impulsive and experimental, instinctive and personal — at times, bordering on avant-garde. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The show’s worldview is still underdeveloped, and the aesthetics could be fancier, but the sense of comic freedom bordering on abandon is exhilarating. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z There’s a trippy scene in which a character floats into a resurrection, an ethereal drift that borders on the surreal. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z One of the faults of this logic is that many who attempt to seek asylum in America are turned away by customs agents at the border on orders of the president. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Everything else was good to superior, and scene by scene, even when the story bordered on melodrama or enlightened piety, the storytelling was believable, engaging, subtle and subtly humorous. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In the video for David Bowie’s “Lazarus,” released last week, the mythic singer and rock ’n’ roll shape-shifter, ever thin but bordering on gaunt, is blindfolded and writhing in a hospital bed. David Bowie Allowed His Art to Deliver a Final Message 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z When we visited Easter Island 30 years ago there was only one hotel and one restaurant, both unremarkable bordering on unacceptable. Celebrating a daughter’s adoption with a trip to Chile 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z He still radiates intensity bordering on mania, but without the familiar “what, me worry?” air of invincibility. | 'Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol': ?Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol? - Review 2011-12-16T00:00:15Z A pleasant assemblage of canals, bikeways, and colorful buildings, it often seems to border on the heavenly, at least for a certain brand of bourgie millennial. Hieronymus Bosch’s Five-Hundredth-Anniversary Homecoming 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Some of the lyrics border on pure cheese, but that chorus will guide you home, no matter your religion. The Best Songs Sia Wrote for Other Artists 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “The first of anything is special,” she said, adding that she was “consumed by this character. I have a relationship with her that borders on the unhealthy.” ‘Always Jane’ Is Part of a New Generation of Trans Documentaries 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Some of the tales woven loosely together in this novel, which won the Man Booker award for translated fiction, border on the grotesque, but they are enlivened by the author’s humor and optimistic voice. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s neither as thrilling as “The Dark Knight” nor as narratively efficient as the earlier “Batman Begins,” and it borders on bloated at nearly three hours. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in August 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z He might hate chairs with an intensity that borders on the psychopathic, but go and Google photos of him directing Dunkirk. Seat of the problem: why does Christopher Nolan hate chairs? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Executed with discipline that borders on mechanical, they couldn’t be better suited to a world according to George. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The ruling came after a one-day hearing that bordered on the farcical. Lawsuit against Madonna dismissed in Russia 2012-11-22T20:31:03Z It is also immensely moving – particularly a scene in a food bank, when a young mother Blake has befriended breaks down in a manner that borders on the feral. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Length aside, the rest of “English” is precise bordering on surgical. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “The thing I like about these is how they almost border on a hippie sensibility,” said Mr. Barney, whose work has probably never once been described as bordering on a hippie anything. Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Through acts that border on depraved, Sheri tries to get her daughter to understand exactly what it was like for her to care for her own dying mother two decades prior. David Vann’s ‘Aquarium’: dark story of family’s dysfunction 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Her quest to find him doesn’t border on obsession, it is obsession. Four Thrillers, United by Male Trouble 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The band’s music, which at times bordered on the sepulchral, required lyrics that soared along with it. Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Lavender hazes of snowflakes, sidewalk drawings at night, the Acropolis in white Greek light — her reverent naturalism borders on abstraction. Art Trek: Roberta Smith’s Tour of the Sizzlers on the Upper East Side 2014-04-03T22:52:07Z "Our collection features a complimentary color palette, so you can create a more drama by stacking several borders on top of one another," Lagos says. The classic decorating trick that’s making a comeback 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z By rights it should be a full-blown melodrama, and in places it is, but it’s also offset by a goofiness that sometimes borders on the inappropriate. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z But Byrd’s stubbornness — bordering on irascibility — came in the face of religious and professional opposition. William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z But to my taste receptors, dulled after years living in Sichuan, China, and in Thailand, too many dishes bordered on bland. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In “American Buffalo,” Teach is a thug prone to crackpot theories, bordering on paranoia, about his friends and associates and human nature in general. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z This example of a fanaticism bordering on crass stupidity and mental dysfunction might seem incredible to any regular blogger, and the suspicion struck me that maybe Mark Shenton was exaggerating. Noises off: Can theatre critics ever be truly objective? 2011-03-17T12:41:05Z Adolf Hitler’s interest in Norway bordered on obsession. Review | ‘Hitler’s Northern Utopia’ juxtaposes an oppressor’s fantasy state with Norway’s reality under Nazi occupation 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He has the right edge and energy, the razor-sharp mind, but also the lack of social skills and impatience that appears to border on cruelty. TV Review: Sherlock and Orchestra United 2010-07-26T05:45:00Z Denton's approach is thus deeply unethical and irresponsible and borders on the sociopathic, not to mention perpetuating a lot of the public's negative perceptions of journalists in general. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Oram, known by the others to be a “man of faith,” displays an optimism that borders on credulity, and Daniels’s doubts prove to be well-founded. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “I thought what he did was impolite, bordering on dangerous,” Baldwin said. Judge: No slander in Alec Baldwin’s comments on parking spat 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The private meditation sometimes bordered on the hermetic. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z Joel, at least, whose reactions the film focuses on, is left mourning her, in a mood that borders on melancholia. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z If you can remember back to Kelly’s appointment, six thousand years ago in 2017, the event was met with hopefulness bordering on fan fiction. Perspective | John Kelly and the myth of the ‘adult in the room’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Their adventures and misadventures bordered on the absurd but firmly established Ms. Duke — as well as the show’s perhaps too-catchy theme song — in the collective memory of the 1960s. Patty Duke, child star, Oscar winner and advocate for mental health, dies at 69 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Getting it together, however, meant creating an art gallery that, judged even by the standards of its day, bordered on lunacy, a place that defiantly refused to let itself be defined. Books of The Times: ‘112 Greene Street: The Early Years,’ ’70s Art in SoHo 2012-07-25T19:44:03Z This will be a day long remembered by fans of science-fiction fantasies, aficionados of mega-budget movie franchises and viewers who regard the “Star Wars” series with a reverence bordering on the religious. Trailer for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Goes Online 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Is it any wonder, then, that a year like this has coincided with a fascination, bordering on obsession, with the Danish concept of hygge? Hygge Is Where the Heart Is 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Part of being a teenager is putting one over on your parents, doing things you are not supposed to do — some of them really stupid, if not bordering on dangerous. Motherlode Blog: Why I Don't Rat Out My Son's Friends 2012-01-25T18:01:09Z She made up for her lack of dexterity by strumming the instrument with an intensity that bordered on the destructive; early in the set she broke a guitar string. Music Review: Alice Ripley at the Metropolitan Room 2012-07-23T21:48:46Z Even if you think you know what you’re getting, the application of sugar, water and deep-chill conditions can transform fruit from something recognizable and commonplace into an experience that borders on the surreal. Tumultuous Family Stories, Two Ways 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z And at times, there’s a suggestion or two of the half-cracked quality that others saw in Dickinson, an otherworldliness that bordered on psychological debility. ‘The Belle of Amherst’: Joely Richardson as Dickinson 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z For a moment, he looks almost entirely serious – deadpan bordering on dead earnest – as though we have finally penetrated through to the questions in life that really matter. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z Some comments bordered on homophobic and transphobic, with certain people unable to fully comprehend that a boy dressed in pink was outside the realm of possibility. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The picture is bordered on the right and left by grids of colored squares, reminiscent of Ellsworth Kelly’s 1951 painting “Colors for a Large Wall.” Nicolas Moufarrege Was a Student of Art History. This Work Shows It. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z I think that even “Black Skinhead” could border on house, “On Sight” sounds like acid house, and then “I Am a God” obviously sounds, like, super house. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z In fact, sometimes it borders on mocking Qatari influence on soccer. In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z And one of the women, Lady Bridgerton, seems to have powers of her own, bordering on prophetic. Is Lady Violet the oracle of “Bridgerton”? 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Or rather, as the wines evolved stylistically to become fruitier and sweeter, sometimes bordering on syrupy, they lost me. Grenache Three Ways, and Over Many Decades 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Here, Mr. Lazar, his body cloaked in rags, is more diverting than sinister while Ms. Canale borders on glib. Review: ‘Big Dance: Short Form’ Delivers Traditional Repertory With a Party Midway 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It should go without saying that this borders on the outrageous, even by the usual standards of music industry shortsightedness. New Music: New Albums by Aaron Neville and Widowspeak 2013-01-21T23:21:29Z While the adult table might get bogged down in politics, kids will go down a rabbit hole of YouTubers and knock-knock jokes bordering on the absurd. "Mrs. Maisel" and lessons from the kids' table 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Staiti calls him “careless to the edge of recklessness, impulsive bordering on erratic.” Our country’s first spin doctors: The painters of the American Revolution 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “Beautiful Telephones” — written for President Trump, Bley explained — was doleful bordering on despairing, with Sheppard’s entrance kicking the tempo up a notch even while maintaining its darkness. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In his sentencing statement, the judge said—and these are words I remember precisely, because they went straight to my sixteen-year-old ego—“While her written statement bordered on the eloquent, so did her testimony.” The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The sound element bordered on the inaudible, which meant that you had to almost strain to listen. What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Like always eating pizza for lunch: enticing in the realm of childish fantasy but bordering on revolting in practice. | The Perfume Diaries 2014-02-12T00:06:48Z For a company to barge in, hoover up all sales of everything online and not pay UK tax appears to be bordering on the criminal. Amazon tax petition nears 100,000 signatures 2013-03-22T07:00:16Z In my circle, at least, lab-grown meat was met with mistrust that bordered on revilement. In a world of ultra-processed food, here's why I am sold on lab-grown chicken 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z At the heart of this big, big secret lay further secrets, some so huge they bordered on the preposterous. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z At times his wounded masculinity borders on the pathetic, particularly when he bickers with Maya, who exudes the infinite patience that only comes with a long, loving companionship. ‘Africa’ Review: Aging and its Discontents 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But there isn’t much going on beneath the flashy surfaces of the performance; Cody’s suffering, which borders on the suicidal, lacks a convincing emotional core. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z The solution is ingenious, bordering on preposterous, and Higashino's skill clearly lies in contrivance rather than characterisation – but the process of deduction is fascinating. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z Some problems were basic kitchen breakdowns: a pork chop so overcooked it bordered on juiceless, or an underbaked apple streusel pie with a flabby bottom crust and stiff filling. Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Although he spent just a year in custody, four months of hard labor marred his health forever and cultivated a yearning for self-sacrifice bordering on martyrdom. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Her memoir reveals a chaotic and fractured psyche, and, unfortunately, some of her New Age digressions border on incoherent. The unending agony of Marina Abramovic 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z One tent featured acts bordering on hip-hop, balancing the shiny electronic sounds of much of the festival with some corrective sludge and murk. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z Oh, and the wallet experiment – 50 wallets "lost" around the country, all containing a tenner – borders on valid. Eye Spy – TV review 2013-06-28T06:00:03Z Rather, the artist focused on a particular vibe, and the result was a consistency that at its least successful bordered on retread. Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Several of the stories, which occasionally border on the grotesque, focus on issues of preservation and decay. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z At times Jarad, who faces 200 years for four attempted murders, demonstrates an almost dissociative denial that borders on sociopathic. “They Call Us Monsters”: teenage boys facing life in prison become screenwriters 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Yes, her last name is Lyon, but the degree to which Cookie wears animal prints borders on the ridiculous. Cookie Is an ‘Empire’ Builder for Fox 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Spread a scant ¼ cup of the masa into a 4-inch square, leaving a 1½-inch border at pointy tapered end of the husk and a roughly ¾-inch border on the other sides. It’s time to line up and make your holiday tamales 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z To be confronted with such aggression in a space like the atrium borders on shocking, and for that Mr. Moss is brave; he charged the space. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z It’s a progressive glee distinctive to this region and bordering on decadent mayhem. 2010-02-10T18:33:00Z The restaurant, called Malus, in reference to the genus for apples, the original forbidden fruit, seems designed with a minimalism that borders on the brutal. ‘A Taste of Hunger’ Review: A Relentless Pursuit of Perfection 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Alongside disciplined exaltation, there is an elegiac edge to this writing, like the black border on Victorian letters of condolence. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z He is enthusiastic bordering on hyperactive, bouncing from topic to topic and speaking in near-constant hyperbole. Jimmy Fallon, back home in NYC, can’t wait for ‘Tonight’ 2014-02-13T21:29:35Z Parking can be tricky, bordering on impossible, this time of year; the plethora of restaurants in the area keep Oakbrook Center's parking spaces occupied long after the retail stores close. Skip the food court: Chicago suburban restaurant roundup 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He’s proven again that he’s a far better actor than he is a musician, especially when he is playing a broad, comic role bordering on or exceeding caricature. Justin Timberlake’s hilarious new tequila ad settles it: He needs his own sketch comedy show 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “This led them to Marcel Duchamp, who became a passionate intellectual focus. 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