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Recent Examples of quicksandInstead, Gracey paints a fabulously entertaining and touching picture of an insecure, complicated man hauling himself from a quicksand of grasping fans, greedy impresarios, unresolved addictions and father-son dysfunction.—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024 We have got used to 90 points being a minimum for a team wanting to win the league, but even if Liverpool are technically ‘on track’ for 95, maybe the quicksand of inconsistency will suck them in too at some point.—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024 The Conformist Kino Film (Via Amazon) Custody Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 33m
Director: Xavier Legrand
A film that’s not unlike sinking into emotional quicksand, this French drama won the Cesar Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024 Chicago and Illinois are sinking in a quicksand of pension debt.—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quicksand
Simply put, Democrats can escape their electoral quagmire by recognizing what successful liberal politicians understood until quite recently—that there's nothing compassionate or progressive about letting corporations exploit cheap foreign labor to undermine American workers.
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
However, this path has led many young adults into a financial quagmire.
Carey thinks that the innovators that will emerge from the current morass relatively unscathed are the ones that have benefited from a parent company’s fiscal and resource scaffolding from the get-go.
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
For such writers and thinkers, including Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, and Heinrich Blücher, history felt like a betrayal in which former traditions and institutions had collapsed, leaving behind a morass of emptiness and fractured communities.
Even those with home web access may not have unlimited data plans.
Ryan Gillespie,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2025
In addition to streaming via a web browser, Mubi offers apps for mobile phones, media streaming devices (Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku), and Smart TVs.
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