So young, so alive, so unaware of how precarious life can be.

Only in the postmodern world has a new perception of the world's fragility been created in us: and with it an understanding of the precarious life of a 21st-century monster.

As winter draws on, it looks as if our author's precarious life as a journalist and polemicist has landed him in his most parlous situation yet.

It was a world of precarious life and insecurity where trade degenerated into a raiding economy.

Many agricultural people moved to cities and threw themselves into new precarious lives.