All the figures, with thick lips and wide, happy-go-lucky grins (wholly inappropriate to the perilous mission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
Moral achievement, perilous danger, and individual action, rather than the specific details of an expedition's instructions or successes, were thrust to centre stage.
It was an intellectually courageous but often perilous balancing act.
With the outbreak of war, crossing the road became newly perilous.
Moving cultures : the perilous problems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing society.
He rows out through perilous and stormy seas.
Even at this early stage in the century the perilous bear encounter had become a central part of the imaginative stock-in-trade.
This phenomenon is perilous, because the discrete solutions will 'look' correct and even display nice convergence as the meshes are refined.
