verge upon

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To say that the later portraits verge upon caricature is not much of an overstatement.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

Because you consistently verge upon the profound, the revealing�and then pull back, almost in embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Alcestis Euripides made one of the best plays in the world, full of true pathos, full of jovial humor, both of which sometimes verge upon the burlesque.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

But perhaps there are schools among us now which verge upon the opposite extreme.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

But I confess that the talk and the quality of it, the meeting and its informality did strike me as so singularly stimulating as to verge upon the riotous.

From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins