Leslie Cockburn

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.

American Writer

Tom Chatfield

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

British Author

Sajid Javid

People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children feel they have no choice but to put their lives at risk in their search for a safe place to live.

British Politician

Charles M. Blow

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

American Journalist

John Grierson

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

British Director

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Italian Writer

Thomas McGuane

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

American Author

James Earl Jones

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

American Actor

Patrick deWitt

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

Canadian Novelist

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Chinese Philosopher

Use 'perilous' when describing journeys with physical obstacles and threats.

Physical Journeys

Reserve 'perilous' for genuinely dangerous situations, not just difficult or uncomfortable ones.

Not for Hyperbole

Apply 'perilous' to actions with potential negative outcomes, especially to health or safety.

Problematic Actions

Use when choices or decisions might lead to dangerous outcomes.

Consequential Choices

Use 'perilous' for positions or situations lacking stability and security, metaphorically or literally.

Vulnerable Positions

Conveys a sense of anxiety or fear due to instability or insecurity in non-physical contexts.

Emotional Overtones

Useful for situations close to a crisis point, where urgent action is needed.

Facing Crisis

Can describe a business or economy on the verge of financial failure.

Financial Stability

 at the present time who feel keenly disappointed. They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover

Jeff Bezos: The...

 prayed for waves with the help of a kahuna, or an expert priest, and gave thanks after surviving a perilous wipeout. Certain surf breaks were strickly reserved for the elite. But it wasn't just a solemn affair. Surfers competed and wagered on who could ride the farthest, the fastest,

The complicated history...

 by risking their lives on a dangerous and perilous journey to another country, and it's that which we're seeing in Europe today. Around the world, we present refugees with an almost impossible choice between three encampment, urban destitution and dangerous journeys.

Our refugee system is...

 bears will be doing this time of year is just putting on weight for the winter months and they can actually pass out from eating so much as you head deeper into the park has to lookout point called polychrome pass the road is perilous with a drop-off that could kill

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 glass particles would settle down into this wetlands area creating a thick mud a soupy mud viscous and unforgiving this quick mud could be perilous to any animal that happened upon it predators sink potential prey helplessly

Digging Up a Dinosaur...

 inevitable that we will have many more women in power and soon leader blessing we all are we we hope you're right and we believe you will be in part of why we hope you're right is that these are perilous and dangerous

On sincere and authentic...

 who risked their own safety in service of humanity. And some even losing their lives in the process. During the worst of the contagion, one thing kept us making those perilous daily journeys into the Ebola wards.

For survivors of Ebola,...

 more after the break the future for conservation in africa is perilous right now i would say we are at a crossroads policies several major threats to wildlife poaching remains a concern and

Kenya’s Wildlife...

 even with the protection of a big family the early months of a cub's life can be the most perilous learning to swim is just the first danger to overcome

Adorable Baby Animal...

 even with the protection of a big family the early months of a Cubs life can be the most perilous learning to swim is

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