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.
