verge Betydning & definition

Eksempler på verge

• At one extreme, where discourse verged off toward real demeanor, disgust could manifest itself demonstratively in acts of snobbery.

• Marked passages also hint at a representational content that verges away from a single source or from a cohesive intention.

• While the excited crowd gathered round, suddenly and unexpectedly there was a new vortex of the festival, verging on the threshold of a challenge.

• Caution verging on scepticism is indeed the tone struck in all three of these volumes.

• The ruler continued to enjoy, unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky, a respect which sometimes verged on worship.

• Despite its radical rhetoric, which often verged on socialism, the rebellion stayed within the bounds of a capitalistic framework, the traditional formula of the day.

• Although this point verges on the platitudinous, it is nonetheless an important one.

• At times, the forced participation in collective violence against the willful verged on riot.