Verging

I see Spain verging on bankruptcy as bullish for metals and dangerous for the Euro ❋ Canadian Silver Bug/Green Assassin Brigade (2007)

He has the type of musical genius that I classify as verging on the edge of savant (and I mean this as the highest compliment). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or is her expression verging on a glazed over look? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, the financial economy is described in dire terms verging on hysteria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He threw himself on the sofa, clasped his hands behind his head and remained motionless, looking at the ceiling with an expression verging on despair. ❋ Unknown (2003)

N-klas paused before he answered, his remorseful expression verging on the comical. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)

N'klas paused before he answered, his remorseful expression verging on the comical. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)

Another woman who lives alone reveals a wariness verging on paranoia when she says, of an 11-year-old granddaughter, that she is cute, sweet—but manipulative, incredibly manipulative. ❋ Daniel Akst (2012)

The alternative view on Wenger is that his stubbornness is verging on the delusional, that he is teetering on the brink. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The MP, elected last year, said that renting in the area was "verging on unaffordable". ❋ Unknown (2011)

We have a side dish of buttery peas with pancetta, and they are not the fresh kind but something verging on marrowfat, which makes this feel like an Italian dish by way of Salford. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the '70s, parenting was like a combination of intense crate-training and rumspringa, so I would typically spend June through September burnt to a crisp and wandering listlessly around the city, verging on scurvy. ❋ Samantha Bee (2011)

SIEGEL: Right there, a scene of a jihadist cell in Britain, and yet, it's verging on "Keystone Cops." ❋ Unknown (2010)

BP oil workers also say that the company's fire and gas warning systems are unreliable, that the giant turbines that pump oil and gas through the system are aging and that some oil and waste holding tanks are verging on collapse. ❋ Abrahm Lustgarten (2010)

This in turn has prompted a public outcry from the Conference of European Rabbis and others, arguing that to relieve a Chief Rabbi from his position for upholding an ancient biblical law, is deplorable, "verging on fascism." ❋ Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet (2012)