perilousness

Then he admitted that each time he took up his pen, he felt a "sense of the perilousness."

The artist symbolizes the perilousness of the new situation by mounting the monitor on a grid of drinking glasses, a less than startling metaphor.

Many Republican insiders have come to believe in the days since the Democratic convention that Mr. Bush would be obliged to consider dropping Mr. Quayle by the very perilousness of his situation.

Gradually he renewed his faith in the perilousness of the Mission, savoring the impending danger in peace, without haste, looking forward to his upcoming trial like a confirmed wino being handed a moss-covered bottle of wine dating from the Napoleonic Wars.

Armed with that new-found respect for the perilousness of play, scientists lately have taken a more sophisticated approach to their research, moving beyond impressionistic observations to more rigorous studies of the physiology and psychology of play - what happens to the creature's body, brain and behavior as it revels in its escalating prowess.

But it is significant that some of the most exacting experts in the field have endorsed the campaign as being in line with what the science demands - figures such as outspoken British climatologist Kevin Anderson who has criticised both politicians and his colleagues for failing to be honest about the perilousness of our position.