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She accused him of being "overly descriptive" and "verging on not being totally respectful of the victim".

Jones said: "You are being overly descriptive, and I think verging on not being totally respectful of the victim at this point. So, can you tone down the rhetoric slightly?"

He clings to a sense of decency amid an atmosphere of moral decay, sometimes verging on the surreal.

You never know how she’s going to react and while her large eyes are often sullen and sad, her expression unreadable, Dyrholm’s are wide and bright, verging on the edge of mania.

She says his behaviour was “appalling and degrading, verging on psychological abuse", adding: "I don’t believe I’ve been given a fair trial.”