11.   Her film hovers between passion and philosophical argument without fully achieving its ambition to fuse the two.

12.   His tangled views of the city, hovering between representation and abstraction, sold out, and before long he was profiled in Life magazine.

13.   Hovering between operetta and grand opera, the Spanish musical form called zarzuela is revived periodically in this country by performers with requisite clout.

14.   Hovering between romantic fantasy and deflated realism, Ms. Willis taps a rare subtlety of feeling.

15.   Hover just between Shutdown and the Start button and a scroll arrow appears.

16.   In both incarnations, critics have praised his precise depiction of a man hovering just between sanity and somewhere else.

17.   Rather than investing in insulation or energy-efficient air-conditioners, consumers here seem to be hovering between denial and outright defiance.

18.   She was known for cryptic, lusciously painted interiors, still lifes, landscapes and street scenes that hovered between abstraction and representation.

19.   Sharon and I hold our breath as he hovers between the proverbial rock and hard place.

20.   That specter hovered between the lines of comments made by Baker at a news conference at the Senate Office Building in Tallahassee, Fla.