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Example sentences for: verges

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In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
To continue today's policy of muttering and changing the subject verges perilously on saying not just that too much alcohol is bad for you but that ignorance is good for you.
His monotone verges on the point of exploding into hundreds of hysterical semitones.
The depiction of Chinese life is said to be so grim that it "verges on the xenophobic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the Red Corner site.)
The comic books, Faison says, "drip with so much political venom that they capture the labored nature of the campaign [against Hongzhi] in a way that verges on parody."