Word: perilousness
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...Mill on the Floss Ah, if only all Sunday-night TV movies dealing with women in peril could be as subtly haunting as this PBS version of George Eliot's 1860 novel. The filmed story of Maggie Tulliver (played by Emily Watson) features no stalkers, mind you, but evokes poetically the inescapable dangers of possessing a divided heart...
...Post-Natal Attention As their physical condition improves, the septuplets face a new peril: media attention. A cautionary tale of fame and fertility...
...collapse of the Soviet Union "was a remarkable opportunity in history but one fraught with enormous peril," the life-long hoosier told his audience...
...Asians are not quite individuals, then they are not quite human. Asians are, in this view, little more than worker drones willing to sacrifice themselves in an instant for the good of the state. This argument, is in essence, identical to the statements of people warning of "The Yellow Peril" in the 1950s. The Chinese regime is more than clever enough to use these beliefs against...
Hillary has learned the perverse Washington lesson that a First Lady succeeds in public at her husband's peril. Presidential power being a zero-sum equation, it was impossible for her to look strong without the President's looking weak. She learned the hard way what First Ladies before her had assumed: that her influence was better felt than seen. So late in 1994 she vanished from the West Wing. She sent her chief of staff at the time, Maggie Williams, to meetings. If she needed to make a point, she did it one on one with such trusted aides...