Their jokes, while juvenile, were innocuous, whereas Richards displayed a self-importance verging on grandiosity.
The Gap has suffered from declining same-store sales for years, verging on the death-spiral.
Like much of today's campaign talk, the accusation was hyperbolic, verging on the demagogic.
Such intimidation has induced a sense of caution, verging on self-censorship, among other journalists.
As if painting another, more magical world, he also did bare, unpopulated moorscapes and nearly all-white seascapes verging on abstraction.
But that is understandable: he was not alone in being surprised by a mood verging on national hysteria following her death.
Business leaders say some companies are on verging on bankruptcy because they are unable to extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.
His downbeat pronouncements about the progress of the military campaign had annoyed people in Washington too, where some regarded him as verging on the defeatist.
Tebow-mania may be verging on cute overload, but his ascension feels inevitable.
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He was echoing complaints during the debate from Tory home affairs spokesman David Lidington who said the government was demonstrating priorities "verging on the surreal".
As in the UK, for many working class industrial communities in the grip of hard times, football is a release, a passion, verging on a religion.
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That is how some peddlers of Germany's open-ended property funds have responded to reactions, verging on panic, to the closure of two such funds since early December.
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Verging on starvation and desperate to escape a contract with his first label, Morrison wound up in a New York studio with a small group of jazz musicians.
It's verging on phablet territory with a 5-inch screen (800 x 480 resolution), and running the whole show is a dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor and half a gig of RAM.
Albania, which has suffered from instability verging on anarchy for the past 10 years and is reeling under the burden of refugees from Kosovo, lacks funds to deal with problems on this scale.
Compared with this, the first movie was almost quaint, in that Gibson was supposed to be verging on mental collapse, and Glover got drawn in when he did something suicidal while on the job.
With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.
It's verging on unplayable out there.
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Diminishing social mobility, the cult of the celebrity society, the decline in serious learning, the increasing disregard for empiricism and social attitudes verging on valuephobia threaten to cast a shadow on the enlightened western liberalism which has taken us so far.
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The locations featured in these paintings are unrecognisable today but the dual meaning of the beach - a place that is both semi-sacred in its natural beauty and also verging on the profane with its good times - has only continued to grow more powerful.
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