Yet, there were instances where the handling felt a little soft, and verged on the appliance-like feel of the Prius.

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Rather, a concurrent rebellion against industrial production meant that designers were able to envision one-offs that verged on fine art.

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The almost magical esteem in which he was held by the acting community fed the rage, which verged on the Oedipal.

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Her admiration for Mr Clinton seems to have verged on hero worship.

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Early reactions to Kraftwerk were often hostile, and sometimes verged on xenophobic.

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But if some looks verged on the ridiculous, that was the point.

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Italian collaboratives, like Archizoom and Superstudio, made witty one-liners that verged on pranks (the palm-tree-shaped floor lamp) alongside more refined riffs on modernism.

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Ironically, once Egyptian demonstrators verged on toppling Mubarak, the Obama Administration suddenly found virtue in demonstrations in Iran, with ringing statements by Vice-President Biden and others.

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His optimism about the future often verged on the Panglossian.

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She uses the wealth of new evidence to examine her subject's extraordinary range of interests, a mercurial side that sometimes verged on unpleasantness, and his ever urgent desire to earn money.

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The memorial service verged on radical-feminist revival.

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