fault line

Undeterred, she reached out directly to Osmond, who had been following the fault lines in the younger Huxleys' marriage with professional interest.

Lee’s novel of a 20th century Korean family exposes the fault lines in relationships and borders that are not drawn on a map.

Rudy is depicted as an agent of the empire, but there’s a fault line in his being.

Perhaps the most apt metaphor for a book set in Los Angeles and Tehran is to simply say, “Liquid” is a book troubling the fault lines.

Given the city’s geographic proximity to a major fault line, his team had recommended that the government update its building codes to make structures more resilient and improve seismic contingency planning.