perilous betydelse and definition

Exempel på perilous

• 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.