She was seized by a fierce, barely controllable desire to be there, to climb through the schism and taste the mystery beyond.

You had better explain yourself, Admiral,' Todd said, anger rising to a barely controllable pitch.

However, he acquired superhuman strength, enhanced senses, claws, and barely controllable bloodlust during his transformation.

The crew made preparations to abandon the aircraft, by then barely controllable and a crash inevitable.

The first powered airplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, a lifting-canard (although conceived as a control-canard), was "highly unstable" and barely controllable.

The Romans considered them dullwitted but feared them as barely controllable savages.

Stalin suddenly became aware that his heart was beating violently; he could scarcely see and he felt a barely controllable urge to twitch all over.

And now that the man had eluded and humiliated him, that hate had festered into something white hot and barely controllable.

"It's Pearly, and you know it," replied a deep scratchy voice in barely controllable anger.

Molly slowly comes to remember her parents, but still is barely controllable and confined to the boundaries of the habitat.