I lay there, eventually sinking into a cocoon of relief.
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Such moments keep this tough documentary from sinking into despair.
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This water force prevents the board from "sinking" into the wave.
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That seems to help it from sinking into recession by mistake.
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He had turned around his chair, sinking into the music's sweetness.
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Listening to Beach House is like sinking into a familiar dream.
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Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is uniquely excellent because it relies heavily on a resource that few other animated features have: a powerful visual grammar that has been finely honed in the trenches of comics storytelling.
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But, instead of sinking into apathy, she began to write her novel.
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"The water runs off... instead of sinking into the ground," he said.
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That, dear friends, is a tale of sinking into utter online irrelevance.
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They soften after sinking into the broth, thickening it with their bulk.
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Economist Stephen Roach believes the country is sinking into an unprecedented recession.
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Less time at home = less time sinking into a black hole of sadness.
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Sinking into my memory-foam pillows is often the highlight of my day.
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At that moment, I just remember sinking into my desk and just crying.
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The residential streets in Tampa, Florida look like they're sinking into the earth.
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They are really sinking into enjoying each other's company at their dream destination.
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The others are sinking into obsolescence without knowing what to do with themselves.
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Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is overcrowded, flooding, and sinking into the sea.
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It's a cube that looks like it's sinking into whatever surface it's sitting on.
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But under its would-be sultan, Turkey is sinking into the marsh of dictatorship.
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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is about what it sounds like.
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Sagar's noises and shudders don't stop, but I find myself sinking into the bed.
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But fresh thinking is also needed to help countries avoid sinking into protracted situations.
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Simba's paw sinking into Mufasa's is shown from a different angle in the remake.
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But by 2011, Spain was sinking into a banking crisis and facing record unemployment.
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Everything is falling apart, decaying, and the container is rapidly sinking into the mud.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (images provided by GKIDS) Cartoonist Dash Shaw's first animated feature, My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, opens with abstractions that gradually slide into distinction.
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You see the huge red sun sinking into the cornfields; you feel the dew underfoot.
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"My ears are not what they used to be," he said, sinking into a sofa.
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Was it a remote shore with a pink and purple sunset sinking into the water?
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Rather than sinking into the sofa, he perched on its edge, leaning into the conversation.
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California is burning, Delhi is shrouded in smog, and Venice is sinking into the seas.
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Today, the Millennium Tower is slowly sinking into the soft clay soil of San Francisco Bay.
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But for others, it might be a kind of sinking into the darkness of real rage.
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This game feels comfortable and familiar to me, like sinking into an old, beaten-up armchair.
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Mobile phone footage showed the ferry sinking into the muddy water and people shouting for help.
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I could feel his heart sinking into his stomach – and to be honest, mine was too.
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She remembers sinking into delirium, staring up at a fan that spun endlessly on the ceiling.
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Tents rest on cardboard and sleeping bags to try to stop them sinking into the quagmire.
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We stepped onto Hatthatara's boat sinking into sturdy deck chairs with wide, cushioned seats and footrests.
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The prose of it is like sinking into a velvet couch; it's just a beautiful book.
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When it clicks, it's like sinking into a warm bath and letting all your cares float away.
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That glorious feeling of ditching your high heels and sinking into the carpet with your bare feet?
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Elsewhere they fizzle, sinking into a sluggish enervation that suggests they've taken their own band name literally.
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Officials say Venice is sinking into the mud and facing rising sea levels due to climate change.
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As they were sinking into quicksand Finn was about to share some deep, dark secret with Rey.
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Germany is Europe's largest economy, and it looks to be on the brink of sinking into recession.
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Perched atop a "reclaimed" strip mine, the $174 million prison was sinking into the blast-softened earth.
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More diverse views in leadership means less likelihood of sinking into the quagmire of groupthink and unconscious biases.
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If you feel as if you're sinking into those old patterns, Levine suggests we try the metta meditation.
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The Casper king bed is supportive yet soft enough to cradle the body without sinking into the bed.
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Do it because your alternative is to start sinking into what could be characterized as an entitlement mentality.
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Even in the absence of political consensus, we must avoid sinking into the abyss of contemptuous name calling.
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"There's an e-commerce mentality sinking into the American consciousness," said Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of Redfin.
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The worst experiences are those where you feel the discussion sinking into a narcotizing morass of ideological reassurance.
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Rather, it feels as if her shoulder is becoming the landscape, her body sinking into the earth surrounding her.
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That earth is now dying, drowning in salt and sinking into the sea, and she is ready to leave.
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I fought against closing my eyes and sinking into it, still hopeful for a miraculous break in the clouds.
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Indonesia announced Monday that it will be relocating its capital from Jakarta, which is slowly sinking into the sea.
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But hell, things could be worse; we could be sinking into an avocado black market like the New Zealanders.
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After the explosion that injured the soldier, he remained conscious, he remembered, but knew he was sinking into shock.
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She welcomes the distraction from the tremor she feels seeping out of Aster and sinking into her own skin.
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"They're soft and supportive without giving you the feeling that you're sinking into them like a La-Z-Boy."
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I was a "distractor," busying myself with a million little things to avoid sinking into the depths of despair.
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Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea The film's character design is, accordingly, very simple.
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She tries to brush my hair but I grab the brush, my fingers sinking into the purple-tipped white bristles.
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Outside, spectators filled a grandstand to watch Hereford bulls parade before a judge, the beasts' hooves sinking into the mud.
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The land is slowly sinking into the ocean, causing relative sea levels to rise at about 22100 millimeters each year.
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But all around it, invisible to the naked eye, cold vapors are sinking into space, creating ripples of bubbling air.
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This summer is going to be pretty rough if it's only July and people are already sinking into melted roads.
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The city of Venice in Italy has been sinking into its soft sediment by an inch a year for generations.
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Both heel-focused products prevent damage caused by uneven surfaces and resist sinking into lawns during garden ceremonies and receptions.
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In the years that followed, as his mood darkened, he withdrew, sinking into a prolonged period of shame and grief.
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Ms. Burton had lived every parent's nightmare: a child flunking out, sinking into despair, his parents the last to know.
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Tesla shares are sinking into bear-market territory, as investors worry the company may not hit a key production milestone.
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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea opens at Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side) on April 14.
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They sink to about 10 meters, but can probably go down to 50 before irretrievably sinking into the abyss, Franks said.
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In the best-case scenario, we avoid sinking into the abyss and, as a society, scratch ourselves back to square one.
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I waited until my desperation for health insurance was finally outweighed by my desperation to avoid sinking into work-related depression.
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"The internet community are the ones that have kept this case from sinking into the cold-case pit," she told PEOPLE.
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Trump is determined to reverse that trend and to do so without sinking into the quicksand of a major land war.
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Sinking into the pillows that day, he began reciting something—longer, more cogent sentences than anybody had heard since the operation.
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On Sunday evenings you are probably dreading the impending week ahead, sinking into your couch with Thai leftovers on your lap.
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Bingeing a lengthy drama can feel like sinking into quicksand; I'm not so much absorbing the story as it absorbs me.
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As our reviewer, Harriet Lane, wrote: "You see the huge red sun sinking into the cornfields; you feel the dew underfoot."
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A slim cut of rough that wasn't there in 2004 saved it from sinking into the trap, and Woods took advantage.
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In recent months, Mr. Franken has gingerly waded back into public life, after sinking into what he called a clinical depression.
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"My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea," written and directed by Dash Shaw, is an eccentric and lively animated fantasy.
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Her prose is fast-thinking, entertaining and punchy, her dialogue fully authentic without sinking into the tedium of real-life conversation.
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That turbulence has continued more recently, with US oil prices sinking into three bear markets just since the start of 2017.
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"It's dirty work here," said Franco Pierotti, Henraux's longtime quarry director, his steel-toe boots sinking into the pale marble mud.
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It's been a brutal October for the so far, with major benchmarks sinking into correction territory during a month of wild swings.
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Watching The Last Jedi on the big screen was like sinking into a tepid bath—mildly pleasant but could have been hotter.
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"I wore low wedges but I saw a number of women in stilettos sinking into the grass and struggling," Redditor Cat_Wings wrote.
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Curbelo was a uniquely situated Republican—a young 37-year-old whose district includes Miami, which is slowly sinking into the ocean.
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Then he laid out the problem: How were two million people going to live in a region that was sinking into oblivion?
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Pull your belly button into the spine and continue breathing out as you're contracting, so your abdominal wall is sinking into you.
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The Dagestan native escaped a guillotine choke to take Poirier's back before shifting his position and sinking into a rear naked choke.
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But when I see that caricature of who I'm expected to be, I crumple, sinking into a wave of depression and alienation.
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This is the point where we start sinking into a dark hole, mulling whether she should have spent more time in Wisconsin.
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Jakarta, a densely-populated urban megacenter, is home to more than 10 million people and is quickly sinking into the Java Sea.
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Part of that has to do with the fact that it's designed so that it looks like it's sinking into the dashboard.
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She's either chasing highs or sinking into lows, and with mythical metaphors abound, she explains that sparkling feeling of falling in love.
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As climate change worsens, the report predicts these barriers will be completely ineffective at preventing Venice's historic architecture from sinking into the sea.
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But even though I'm aware that these images aren't real, that didn't stop them and other lesbian stereotypes from sinking into my brain.
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Being with her is easy, like sinking into a bubble bath or stealing a boy's well-worn Reebok sweater after a night out.
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"My mom had a lot of Southern-lady friends, and they were, you know, ladies ," she said, sinking into a cushy gray daybed.
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In January, the federal government allocated $48 million to relocate Isle de Jean Charles, La., an island that is sinking into the sea.
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We can only imagine the royals and dignitaries who have had the pleasure of sinking into one of these comfy-looking armchairs. 2.
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Sprinkled powder has begun to meld into the dense whipped cream, like a sea of men sinking into the encompassing foam of femininity.
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And with more families sinking into poverty, people have been forced to double up in increasingly crowded homes, accelerating transmission of the disease.
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Built as a bell tower for Pisa's cathedral and baptistery, it began sinking into the ground five years after construction began in 1173.
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This refusal to soft pedal the age difference — or pussyfoot around the tragedy of withered fame — prevents the film from sinking into sentiment.
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Sitting in the bench-length seat — with its surprising lumbar support — was like sinking into a well-worn rocker, musty smell and all.
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However, it&aposs also firm enough to avoid bouncing you around or sinking into the saddle, which is what often leads to numbness.
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She has the bills of a New Yorker to pay, and the distractions of adulthood keeping her from sinking into a story with ease.
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Humans have been known to try and pick me up but quickly drop me due to my teeth sinking into their hand or arm.
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For the first time in history, the production is being staged on a lake — and the ship is sinking into the water every night.
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"I found myself slowly sinking into a sea of troubles," McDonagh wrote in a medical journal in 2014, offering his perspective as a patient.
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Over the course of a century, miners have dug so many tunnels in the area that the city is literally sinking into the earth.
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Now, those gains are coming undone, with millions of working-class Brazilians sinking into poverty as the country endures its second year of recession.
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After sinking into his couch between two gigantic ferns, it wasn't long before his cat Zip jumped onto our laps to join our chat.
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By the time she reached 17, Juliet had shrunk by 20 pounds, her silky jet-black fur sinking into the crevices between her bones.
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The two hands grasp a corner of the building in a position that suggests they are keeping the structure from sinking into the canal.
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Mr. McKenzie pulled back the Bubble Wrap and saw a label that made him feel as if he were sinking into quicksand: Boeing China.
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But Rubio, whose hometown of Miami is slowly sinking into the sea, has been more sanguine about Trump's other climate-denying nominees, including Pruitt.
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Sinking into a dedicated — and overwhelmingly male — subculture of enthusiasts, the director Doug Nichol unearths a trove of reasons for loving the clicketyclacking machine.
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On screen, the sight of a large city slowly sinking into the sea can't help but conjure thoughts of climate change and environmental disaster.
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Those who had little before the hurricane and lost everything fared the worst, often dropping out of school and sinking into unemployment as adults.
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Earl Watson moves across the court as if sinking into sand, held at his feet by ghostlike grains manufactured in his mind and body.
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It is the opportunity to turn the page peacefully and democratically on an unfair and cruel system that our country and continent are sinking into.
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Curbelo has been particularly outspoken on climate change for a Republican, likely because his home state, Florida, is at risk of sinking into the sea.
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Government programs — like Social Security, the earned-income tax credit and food stamps — have kept tens of millions from sinking into poverty year after year.
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Think of the ravages caused in the early years of this decade when Germany imposed fiscal austerity on European countries already sinking into deep recessions.
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It now shares a wall with a boutique hotel next door, and its vaguely Southern antebellum-looking building seems to be sinking into the pavement.
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And even though the farmhouse was slowly sinking into the dirt basement, taking that old blue tub and all the memories it contains with it.
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Were you thinking about the meaning of the music or were you too preoccupied with the cold or fear of sinking into the icy deep?
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Meanwhile, entire cities are sinking into the ocean, wildfires are ravaging the West Coast of the US, glaciers are melting, and the ocean is dying.
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In the shot, the tiny puppy sits staring on what appears to be a large bean bag chair — his little frame sinking into the large furniture.
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Now worries about Snap's growth are sinking into its share price, which slumped 12 percent yesterday and 11 percent today after its 40 percent IPO pop.
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So instead of taking Midol or rubbing essential oils across my abdomen, last weekend I decided to ease my PMS by sinking into a weed bath.
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The New York Federal Reserve's barometer on business activity in the state unexpectedly fell in May, sinking into negative territory for the first time since October.
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Taunting George Foreman to exhaustion by sinking into the slack ropes, just letting him punch himself out while his own fine, hard body absorbed the blows.
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"They have fewer people than we do, and they are sinking into the sea," he said of the Pacific island nation, whose population is about 10,000.
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We'd luxuriate in our (massive) bathroom every evening, applying the latest and greatest complexion-savers (all housed in a perfectly organized vanity), before sinking into bed.
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That's how much Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm, is sinking into Cultivate, a management training startup, for its Series A investment announced on Wednesday.
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In this third act of China's revitalization, Beijing faces the daunting challenge of improving its dominant position as a global leader, or risk sinking into stagnation.
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I was sleeping on the couch every night, coming home from work completely exhausted, way too stressed out and slowly sinking into some sort of depression.
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Rich countries must do more to stop Somalia from sinking into famine, the head of the United Nations said this month, warning terrorism would increase without aid.
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This will not stop Artax the beloved political horse from sinking into this particular political swamp, but I hope this digest is helpful when arguing on Facebook.
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At that point, I was gaining five pounds every week, and, as a result, sinking into depression and struggling with constant irritability and a perpetual bad attitude.
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She then rocks out by herself, improvising cheesy dance moves (she imitates driving a steering wheel) and sinking into her living-room furniture as she lip-syncs.
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Rather than sinking into counter-productive squabbles amongst our fellow women, #TimesUp proves it's better to instead come together and accomplish more than pointing fingers ever could.
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But when the plates clear and you're sinking into a food coma, rest assured that there's some great TV waiting to see you through the long weekend.
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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said on Monday that the government would nationalise PrivatBank to "prevent it from sinking into a deeper crisis" and protect depositors.
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The spectacle of neighboring Venezuela sinking into deep economic crisis under a Socialist government has also allowed him to argue that a leftist victory would spell disaster.
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With My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Shaw and Samborski create a sense of creative exuberance that you'd typically only find in someone's homemade zine.
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Sinking into the earth seemed a real possibility, and a profound reminder that this ground was not meant for tires or sneakers, but for paws and hooves.
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In 19823, Mr. Tigerman produced an image of one of Mies's most famous buildings, Crown Hall, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, sinking into Lake Michigan.
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But Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, insisted last week that although the eurozone is growing more slowly, it is not sinking into recession.
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In the first edit, the video ended with an image of Beyoncé sinking into the water, but the singer wanted the final note to be more uplifting.
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Women who have worn heels to an outside wedding or other event have likely experienced the problem it was designed to solve: heels sinking into the grass.
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From the vantage of a big river rock, nothing was more urgent than sinking into a moment, absorbing as much as I could around and within me.
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She poked at it recently, her index finger sinking into the soft flesh near my belly button as she stretched across me to reach for our puppy.
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"I just remember sinking into my desk and just crying," Pedro Lopez Vega says, thinking back to the day he found out his mother had been detained.
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It's the sort of book you want to gulp down in a sitting, enfolded by a blanket, sinking into the gray need we all feel to be loved.
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Located in a park on the edge of the Marshes of Glynn, the piece is in the process of erosion — cracking up and gradually sinking into the mud.
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I am sinking into a deep depression that can't seem to shift like it normally does, and I'm thinking about ending my life much more often than usual.
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The money Amazon is sinking into delivery shows how the world's largest online retailer is not immune to competition, said Neil Saunders, managing director at research firm GlobalData.
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Early Friday, a car that had been parked near the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama started sinking into the sand when the storm caused tides to rise suddenly.
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February 6: Mirror-image drop and gain The Dow plunges 5003 points at the open, briefly sinking into correction territory — a drop of 10% from its record high.
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It's like watching a person drown while the lifeguard sits in her tower, performatively noting with alarm that someone is sinking into the sea and surely someone—someone!
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The tires were effective in preventing his wheels from sinking into the court, he said, but the slices and drop shots were abandoned in his first-round match.
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Unless, that is, you've got your heart set on a cake in which the berries remain on top in a colorful design instead of sinking into the batter.
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That's at least $2 billion less than the additional money SoftBank is sinking into it and less than half what it will have invested in WeWork in total.
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But Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, said last week that while the region's economy is growing more slowly, it is not sinking into recession.
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The squishy foam and stiff surface underneath prevents the spine from sinking into the mattress and relieves pressure points that typically keep you waking up every few hours.
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As the new study points out, once the board's dimension reaches 1,000x1,000, and with 1,000 queens to place, computers get borked, sinking into an apparently endless abyss of calculations.
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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea relies on strong writing, memorable lines, and relatable characters to pull viewers through 80 minutes of choppy, low-fi, gorgeous animation.
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Sinking into the jitters, glitches, and contorted sounds that feel, to my ears, like a sonic metaphor for data transfer and digital failure, I find myself unsettled at first.
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The picture revealed that both women were right: the son's future mattress rested on a box spring crookedly overhanging a low metal frame, its casters sinking into pile carpet.
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How events unfold in the coming days and the decisions that are made may prove critical for Iraq, which is at risk of sinking into factional fighting and chaos.
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The cost of the New Glenn project is projected to be about $2.5 billion, though Bezos didn't note how much, in total, he'd personally be sinking into the project.
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We've all noted the inappropriate boyish grin, which grew sweeter and more delighted-looking the deeper Jonathan Pine was supposed to be sinking into a realm of pure evil.
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The show has been moving forward — or lurching, anyway — relentless from the beginning, but while the constant conflict has been productive, it runs the risk of sinking into formula.
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In "The World as It Is," Rhodes wrote that Obama endured a series of emotions following Trump's election and focused on cheering up his staff before sinking into disbelief.
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Your heels were made for walking — and thanks to Becca Brown and Monica Ferguson, the days of sinking into grass or getting stuck in a sidewalk crack are over.
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"Imagine opening the door to your humidor and sinking into your favorite leather lounge chair — that's the sensation new Super Duty Limited inspires," said Ford design manager Aileen Barraza.
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That followed the U.S. stock market's worst week since the 23.12 financial crisis, sinking into correction territory on Thursday due to fears of a recession resulting from the epidemic.
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That followed the U.S. stock market's worst week since the 23.12 financial crisis, sinking into correction territory on Thursday due to fears of a recession resulting from the epidemic.
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That followed the U.S. stock market's worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, sinking into correction territory on Thursday due to fears of a recession resulting from the epidemic.
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We followed Ms. Haberli in a single file, our snowshoes leaving only shallow tracks as the lightweight metal frames prevented us from sinking into the three-foot-deep snow.
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The enactment of a fiscal 2018 budget and income tax rate hike by lawmakers in July over Rauner's vetoes saved the state's credit ratings from sinking into junk status.
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In order to qualify for the registry, Arkansas State University, which maintains and operates the site, had to completely revamp the tattered home, which had been sinking into the ground.
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Bombings are still common in the capital — including three on Wednesday that killed at least 80 people — and a political crisis risks sinking into clashes between supporters of rival politicians.
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In last year's winter issue, she admitted, the beautiful snowy image that graced the magazine was captured while she was quickly sinking into the snow and couldn't feel her toes.
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In one, with Bath Abbey and the River Avon in the background, he appears to be sinking into the river's currents as he grabs a rail along the city's promenade.
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For a second consecutive game, Houston suffered through a terrible start from the perimeter, missing 10 of 33 3s in the first quarter while sinking into an eight-point hole.
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He convinced Congress to pass an economic stimulus law that prevented the country from sinking into a deeper depression than the one left behind by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
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Indonesia moved its capital because it's sinking into the seaIf Bangkok were to move the capital, it would do so one the heels of similar initiatives being implemented by Indonesia.
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At 15 percent of state GDP, single-payer healthcare spending in California would be 3 percent lower than the amount the U.S. as a whole is currently sinking into healthcare.
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Located on an island off the coast of Alaska, Shishmaref is sinking into the sea, making subsistence hunting and fishing dangerous and nearly impossible for the indigenous community based there.
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Last January, President Barack Obama's administration awarded $48 million to relocate a small Louisiana town sinking into the Gulf of Mexico, the first such project funded by the federal government.
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My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea was kind of a parody of that idea—an autobiographical comic where the author is altering reality and making himself the hero.
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Yes, this was really happening, and the realization was sinking into Donald J. Trump like the initial drips of anesthesia: His life had changed utterly, and so had the world.
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Amuay Journal AMUAY, Venezuela — The aging fisherman — his sandals sinking into the sand, his optimism unflagging — looked out across the water and took the measure of his long, losing battle.
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The New York Federal Reserve said on Monday its barometer on business activity in New York state unexpectedly fell in May, sinking into negative territory for the first time since October.
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Omar and Sheikho relied on men to carry them on their shoulders for hours, sinking into the mud, wading through rain-swollen rivers and climbing hills to the border, they said.
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He's portrayed as an outsider artist, a man sinking into depression and mania while also becoming more and more prolific — and more and more convinced that painting is his divine calling.
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"I would try to make sure everyone had a place to live on islands that aren't sinking into the ocean and such," outstanding variety talk series contender Samantha Bee, 47, says.
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Already, hunters are at risk of falling through melting ice, and we have villages that are sinking into the ocean -- our culture and way of life are literally being washed away.
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Top each muffin with 2 slices of pear (it's important to do this just before you place the muffins in the oven to prevent the slices from sinking into the batter).
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There, the grinding boredom is interrupted by the occasional meandering camel, and the worst thing about the assignment is the shipping container they live in, which is sinking into the mud.
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But what good are a kite, a power bar, a flashlight, matches and a flowerpot if you're 7½ months pregnant and trapped on a derelict fishing boat sinking into the sea?
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The result was often a sensory, collective experience, not unlike at a concert, with Oiticica almost always present, dancing with you in his penetrables and sinking into boxes full of sand.
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The project&aposs developer also has had to shore up the island for seismic activity and for a rising sea level — the landmass was found to be sinking into the bay.
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When Mr. Museveni went into the bush to start a rebellion in the early 1970s, Uganda was sinking into the blood-soaked thrall of Idi Amin, a buffoonish dictator accused of cannibalism.
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If you need to heal yourself, hide or sneak up on someone, sinking into a crouch and manoeuvring into the centre of a bush is almost like putting on an invisibility cloak.
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"I never read the Harry Potter books, so I'm reading Harry Potter," says Matthew Leal, a 34-year-old San Francisco resident who found himself sinking into a depression after the election.
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Not in the sense of accepting less, but the way houses settle into their foundation: creaking, shifting, and sinking into a stillness that's a little less dynamic, but a lot more solid.
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Jamie reacts to the trauma of the war and the strange letdown of its end by sinking into alcoholism and depression, while Ronsel tries to burrow back into life with his family.
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And with a population that has gotten old before it has gotten rich, China is sinking into what will most likely be a long period of economic stagnation, as happened with Japan.
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It was in this context that Gottfried von Cramm became one of Germany's most celebrated athletes, and so was asked to represent a country that was quickly sinking into the totalitarian abyss.
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Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a public protest in the form of a floating structure that created the illusion of a suburban house sinking into the River Thames in London.
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Shaking off the world and sinking into a new album can feel like a train ride through the countryside ... unless you're on an actual train with a loud talker next to you.
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A marijuana buzz is inscrutable—a reflection of an individual's proclivities rather than an objective benchmark—so instead he asks you to digest his work as a friend sinking into the couch.
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After sinking into a "really dark depression" and entering "survival mode" after Ezra's death, Price was trying her hardest to be a functioning human being, a good wife, and a good mother.
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The Delle Rose ménage is here presented semi-abstractly, without walls and with its jumble of furniture sinking into the sand of the Louisiana Gulf Coast town where the play takes place.
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Stuck at home because of coronavirus precautions, Biden also can't meet with donors at fundraisers — which, in turn, may become less lucrative with an economy that's sinking into recession or perhaps worse.
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In that time, he discovered that Istanbul, Turkey's economic capital, had dozens of cars at the mayor's disposal and millions budgeted for officials' homes, even as the city was sinking into debt.
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You could roughly chop a mixture of dried fruit and mix it with a spoonful of Cognac and let it all steam inside the cheese, sinking into the Camembert as it roasts.
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As part of his artistic transformation, Ng Chung had abandoned his realist training and thrown himself into neo-Expressionism, sinking into Lan Kwai Fong's dissolute bar scene like Toulouse-Lautrec into Montmartre.
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Threatened with sinking into casino-act irrelevance over the next two decades, and at one point struggling with drug and alcohol problems, he sharpened his artistic focus, concentrating on American Songbook standards.
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She obsesses over her weight, drools over terrible men, and spends many a night getting drunk with her equally miserable friends and sinking into her couch in a fit of self-loathing.
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Instead of sinking into my own private digital mindset, I was aware that we, carless Baltimoreans, were all in the same boat as we stood around waiting for the ever-elusive next bus.
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But Florida was hit especially hard by the mortgage crisis, people don't make as much there as in other coastal regions like New York and LA, and Miami is sinking into the ocean.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois' upcoming elections are casting a shadow over the state's ability to pass a new budget, tackle its financial liabilities and keep its credit ratings from sinking into junk, analysts said.
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It's a universal truth that everyone loves a comfy sweatshirt; if there's any feeling half as heavenly as sinking into a toasty pullover, crewneck, hoodie, or zip-up, we've yet to discover it.
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"The most pressing and overriding task at present is to stop violence, end the chaos and restore order, so as to safeguard our homeland and prevent Hong Kong from sinking into an abyss."
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Change was afoot — a new quarterback, a more aggressive defense, a lighter schedule — as the team tried to take advantage of an opportunity to change the trajectory of a season sinking into oblivion.
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It's time for at least one political party to show some moral backbone at a moment when it seems that the entire country is sinking into a morass of indecency, inhumanity and immorality.
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Now she had the ability to live publicly and openly as she always knew she was, and she was adjusting to the idea, sinking into it as if it were a cold pond.
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It's no wonder that old Charlestonians have made themselves right at home, sinking into mohair settees in the Living Room bar and sipping highballs under slow-spinning ceiling fans at Wes Morton's brasserie.
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Still, there is a danger of sinking into what Snyder calls "pornographic misery," which is why she and her fellow writers make sure to ground all the worst aspects about this theocracy in reality.
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By season 3, it seems that whatever Lara feared would happen to her sons — sinking into the swamp of wealth and never wanting to come up for air, essentially — has also happened to her.
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The specter of more political turbulence as Congress prepares to vote on Rousseff's impeachment later this year is likely to continue to hurt an economy sinking into its worst recession since at least 1990.
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Ten years out, some of the unfinished construction projects have been abandoned and forgotten, sinking into the land or appearing as mirages away from civilization like all of our dreams from that time. —K.
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If you're already sinking into a slump that only your duvet comforter and Netflix subscription can cure, you're in for a treat this weekend — the Long Nights Moon actually encourages us to hunker down.
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Rather than sinking into despair and pulling out the motherwort, however, young people everywhere have taken the events of 2017 as a rallying call to stand up and challenge our increasingly abysmal status quo.
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To keep the poached rhubarb from sinking into the cake batter — which is decidedly not pretty — I add it to the top of the cake after the batter bakes and sets for 20 minutes.
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Let's say you're like me and looking for a way to dive in for the first time, or you forgot about these titles and are looking for a refresher before sinking into the nostalgia.
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In Niger, where the majority head, the lucky ones limp across a desolate 9-mile no-man&aposs-land to Assamaka, less a town than a collection of unsteady buildings sinking into drifts of sand.
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A 2017 U.S. study observed that Russia's Arctic infrastructure is at risk form global warning and that, within a generation, buildings in the Arctic will be at risk of sinking into the ground and collapsing.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. With England still reeling from their disastrous Euro 2016 campaign, the powers that be are desperately trying to stop the team from sinking into the murky depths.
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Unlike an earthquake or a fire, flooding from a storm like Katrina or Harvey leaves many houses and buildings still physically standing but uninhabitable, simultaneously familiar and strange, like a loved one sinking into dementia.
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A mock-up of a typical British suburban home is seen sinking into the River Thames, in a protest by Extinction Rebellion to demand faster government action on climate change, in London on Nov. 10.
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In January, a team of American scientists reported that a thirty-metre-wide block on the western side of the dam had tilted, with one end sinking into the earth a tenth of an inch.
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Like other Polish poets, Milosz felt the need to respond in a radical way to the disgrace of Europe—its sinking into inhumanity, its complicity in genocide—by trying to remake poetry from the ground up.
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The more local swimming pools I visited, the more convinced I became that Icelanders' remarkable satisfaction is tied inextricably to the experience of escaping the fierce, freezing air and sinking into warm water among their countrymen.
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And while less likely, there's also the chance you'll find your car overturned and at risk of an engine fire, slowly sinking into a lake, or stuck deep in a snowbank on a frigid winter night.
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It was the second straight setback and the third in four games for No. 17 Providence, which is in danger of sinking into the bottom half of a league race it once had designs on winning.
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"I had to decide whether I wanted to focus on the layer on top which was the first part of the reaction, or the dots which were sinking into the oil before dissolving," De Giuli explains.
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His work is often an analysis of the art that precedes it, filtered through personal experience and his current circumstance—and My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, Shaw's first feature film, is no different.
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London (CNN Business)The United States, Europe, Japan, China and India are unleashing trillions of dollars in government spending and newly created money as they desperately attempt to keep the global economy from sinking into depression.
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A mock-up of a typical suburban British home is seen sinking into the River Thames in London as part of a protest by Extinction Rebellion to demand faster government action on climate change, Nov. 10.
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In Niger, where the majority head, the lucky ones limp across a desolate 15-kilometer (9503-mile) no-man&aposs-land to Assamaka, less a town than a collection of unsteady buildings sinking into drifts of sand.
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Shortly into their oddball sex session, it becomes clear that this unlucky man is literally losing himself in her; his entire body is sinking into her vagina like a spaghetti noodle into a slurping set of lips.
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Some glitch in bureaucratic protocol had meant that instead of sinking into this moment in the dark, quietly wiping the tears from our eyes, all of us in the audience were left blinking into the bright lights.
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Ross became majority owner of the Dolphins in 43 for $1 billion, and the team has done nothing but (wait for it) flounder since, making the playoffs just once and sinking into a pattern of mediocre ineptitude.
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They were shooting downtown, in the old Georgia Archives building, a looming marble block, nicknamed the White Ice Cube, that was built in the '60s and shuttered after engineers determined it was steadily sinking into the ground.
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At the end of "A Movie Star," as in "A Place in the Sun," Shelley Winters drowns, a latter-day Ophelia sinking into a watery grave, while her killer, her once and always love, looks on, dispassionate.
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The Sentinel satellite images — captured from early 2015 to September of this year — show that the 58-story luxury condominium building is sinking into the soft soil below at a rate of nearly two inches a year.
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Over the objections of some top advisers who wanted to steer him away from confrontation, Mr. Trump demanded to face the media, determined to reject the narrative that his administration is sinking into chaos, scandal and incompetence.
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As Venezuela continues sinking into the worst economic crisis in its history, it is also emerging as a unique case study for the potential of digital money to make aid possible and decrease suffering in distressed countries.
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Some of Ben's customers are deep thinkers like Roy Cuthbert, who suggests holding Second Amendment Days ("with a huge gun show and fast-draw competition") to save the town of Rockmuse from sinking into the desert sands.
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The crush of information we've received this year about sexual misconduct is staggering — enough to knock anyone off their feet; sinking into a song like Lorde's when you're feeling defeated or unmoored is one way to cope.
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Season 33 premiered on Netflix today, and before sinking into your favorite binge-watching couch cushion for the weekend, let's review the five prisoners who left us hanging off the biggest cliffs at the end of Season 3.
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Asia's biggest economies are sinking into debt as India gives out an increasing number of bad loans and credit in China's banks accumulates similarly to how it did in the U.S. before the Great Recession, the Telegraph reports.
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As the world got weird last year—personally, politically—I often turned to music like this, sinking into Huerco S. and Dedekind Cut's down-comforter-heavy synthesizers as a way of blanketing myself from things that felt difficult.
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While there are millions of people in our country living below the poverty line and countless worthy causes here, why should the American taxpayer foot the bill for charitable donations, like saving Venice from sinking into the lagoon?
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As the week drudges on, with Friday seeming still just far enough from reach, here's something that will pair just right with the sheet mask and wine you might be sinking into this evening: the "home cafe" video.
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Those years of not succumbing, or of succumbing like someone sinking into a morass and then flailing to escape, again and again, come back to me now as I see young women around me fighting the same battles.
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Others pointed to the millions Bloomberg is separately sinking into coronavirus response efforts as tone deaf at a time when aides who worked long hours in call centers on his behalf will have to foot their own costs.
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For people who don't have experience meditating but who are looking for a way to avoid sinking into the panic vortex, can you suggest one or two simple meditation practices that would be useful for our current situation?
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Homes nearly sinking into the ocean, or being in the ocean as I've grown up, and realizing that the sea level is rising, having that be in my face my entire life, has made a huge impact on me.
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"What happened after New Orleans?" begins the track, which finds Beyoncé in a variety of striking Crescent City locales: a mansion, a parking lot, a high school gym, and a New Orleans police cruiser slowly sinking into a flood.
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LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A floating mock-up of a typical British suburban home was seen slowly sinking into the Thames in central London on Sunday in a protest organised by Extinction Rebellion to demand politicians fighting a Dec.
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But since then an escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China, plus a growing swathe of global government bond yields sinking into negative territory thanks to a worsening economic outlook, has sapped demand for the euro.
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Rating There isn't much TV that can compel me to sit down and embrace its world like I'm sinking into a hot bath, but that's exactly what it feels like to watch the warm and all-consuming Queen Sugar.
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But the short peek he gained into the dealings of the mayor's office — revealing dozens of cars at his disposal, millions budgeted for officials' homes, and a city sinking into debt — gave him ammunition in the political battle ahead.
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If you prefer the feeling of sinking into your mattress and having it hug your body, or you're a side sleeper who prefers a softer feeling mattress, the Sunset or the Moonlight Helix Luxe models may be more ideal.
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But since then an escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China, plus a growing swathe of global government bond yields sinking into negative territory thanks to a worsening economic outlook, has sapped demand for the euro.
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Toward the end of the video, the second boat is seen slowly turning on its side and sinking into the water as shocked bystanders watch from the Branson Belle, a showboat that helped rescue people, according to the Springfield News-Leader.
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It's not explained how sinking into water would make something made out of wood explode into flames, but booming expository narration and an unnerving computer-generated teen Jack Sparrow are definitely in keeping with the spirit of modern Disney World.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Federal Reserve said on Monday its barometer on business activity in New York state unexpectedly fell in May, sinking into negative territory for the first time since October, prior to the U.S. presidential election.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a public protest over the weekend, in the form of a floating structure that created the illusion of a suburban house sinking into the River Thames in London.
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Place the fitted sheet snuggly over top of it (this will keep you from sinking into the cushions during your slumber — plus, it has a cute little pocket to hold your phone overnight, with a slot for charging via USB).
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They depict dot-eyed characters in disconcerting situations that might quickly devolve into tragedies (a woman staring at another woman, one clutching a hammer; a skeleton-headed figure; a girl either emerging from or sinking into a very small box).
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Under the Fed's "severely adverse scenario," which envisions the economy rapidly sinking into a recession, banks would suffer losses totaling $578 billion, but they would still have enough capital to stay above the minimum levels required by the central bank.
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With the long-awaited feelings of dread sinking into my body, I take a bite of the toasted sandwich to find out that it isn't completely awful, instead it just tastes like a pickle has been added to the mix.
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These soft robots would flop on the surface and move about in ways that won't result in them sinking into the debris or getting stuck; in the meantime, they can grab samples and test them or eject them to a waiting orbiter.
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Sinking into a big leather chair at one of basement studios at VICE's Brooklyn offices, where he's sitting during a break from New York's fashion week festivities, and tugging at one of the many skinny braids that frames his face, he continues.
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The slowdown in the velocity of money is being blamed on a range of factors including the large amount of debt still in the system, banks sinking into a liquidity trap and the unwillingness of households, businesses and banks themselves to take risks.
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"I can remember sinking into that warm envelope—the comfort zone—and everything just falling off my shoulders, the feeling of being 'free,'" says former long-term heroin user Kevin Jaffray about a time he OD'd hours after coming out of prison.
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That suitcase full of writings may be rotting in the depths of some train depot lost-and-found or sinking into a Parisian dump by now, but the newly uncovered short story gives a fascinating look at Hemingway's development as an author.
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After abandoning his first attempt at making a feature film, Shaw put together My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea with partner Jane Samborski in the kitchen of their one-bedroom apartment, and the finished product is a collage in every respect.
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WHAT'S IMPORTANT TODAY The cost of coronavirus The US, Europe, Japan, China and India are unleashing trillions of dollars in government spending and newly created money as they desperately try to keep the global economy from sinking into depression, Julia Horowitz reports.
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As they head for the polls, or count their losses, they could well take Mr. Obama's statement in Athens as a fitting reminder of the huge damage the austerity diktat did to them at the time when their economies were already sinking into sharp recessions.
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With the highest debt to GDP ratio in the euro zone, and on its third international bailout since sinking into crisis in 2009, Athens is hoping to regain access to capital markets next year to signal that it is getting back on its feet.
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The terror one experiences on a New York City ghost tour is also a little more existential than the terror one might experience in a haunted house or the positively revolting movie theater currently sinking into the dirt next to Park Slope's worst Connecticut Muffin.
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The 10th-ranked Friars, who play five of their next seven on the road, fell for the third time in four home games with a 75-68 setback against No. 8 Xavier on Tuesday, sinking into a tie for fourth place in the Big East.
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The bill for saving the world economy is $2000 trillion and rising The United States, Europe, Japan, China and India are unleashing trillions of dollars in government spending and newly created money as they desperately attempt to keep the global economy from sinking into depression.
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Photo by Nicola Zolin Nehmatullah, 28, from the Shindand district of Afghanistan, stood alone in the fields outside the Idomeni camp, gazing across at the amber sun sinking into the snow-capped Voras mountains beyond the 10ft high razor wire fence cutting across Macedonia.
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Two loves in particular dominate "Greek to Me": the Acropolis and Homer, both of which Norris returns to so religiously that she often ends a passage about one or the other on a joking note, to avoid, I presume, sinking into sentimentality or self-dramatization.
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It seemed deserted, and Saeed and Nadia went and stood by the sea, the water stopping just short of their feet and sinking into the sand, leaving lines in the smoothness like those of expired soap bubbles blown by a parent for a child.
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Many people make the mistake of sinking into their shoulders when planking, so if you want to make sure your plank technique is on point, Kate Maxey, a strength and conditioning master trainer at Third Space London, told Insider what to bear in mind.
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No one would ever accuse Buttigieg of being an evocative writer, but the story is told with brisk engagement — it is difficult not to like him — without sinking into the kind of prose one might fear from someone trained in writing reports for McKinsey.
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On the ride to Mladost I felt myself sinking into drunkenness, or felt drunkenness rise around me, so that even as I responded to the driver's small talk I closed my eyes and could feel my head roll to the side before I yanked it up again.
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"What was going on was [the boot] kind of split and a lot of moisture had gone into the boot, so my blade was sinking into my skate and it was affecting the mounting a little bit," she continued, adding that it still wasn't an excuse.
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With Gulman going into the film with a sort of blindness to what's going on at that point in the story, it's no surprise that while he was sinking into his routine of telling one of his jokes, that sort of laughter would throw him off.
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He is, in every frame where he stands alone, a one-man bullet storm, an invitation to consider how hard it would be to exercise restraint if we possessed his weapons and skills, how we're all of us closer to sinking into hell than we might pretend.
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The uplifted right arm — the only sign that Lazarus is alive — sets the body into a cruciform pose, presaging Jesus's own death and resurrection, but it is barely visible on the canvas, sinking into the empty, abysmal darkness that makes up the upper half of the painting.
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Now, the category is filled with dreck from the big animation studios, while wonderful smaller films that qualified for consideration for a nomination like My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea and The Girl Without Hands (or, heck, just The Lego Batman Movie) were passed over.
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As a result, the only thing Berlin offered was a devastating pro-cyclical fiscal austerity in countries already sinking into recessions, with soaring unemployment, poverty, Caritas soup kitchens, falling governments and changing political leaderships, with more than 33 million Europeans experiencing various forms of marginalization and economic precarity.
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"Kurds have been managing these areas since the fall of (Iraqi President) Saddam (Hussein) in 2003 and to change the situation in an instant will make the whole situation as if it is sinking into quicksand," said Baghdad-based analyst Jasim al-Bahadli, an expert on Shi'ite armed groups.
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STEP from the fraying lobby into the tiled interior of Akebono-Yu, Tokyo's oldest sento, or public bath-house, and there is an almost churchlike silence, interrupted only by the tinkle of spring water and the odd groan of pleasure from one of the elderly customers sinking into its tubs.
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He has also installed an itty bitty bonfire on top of a fire alarm, a teeny weenie yacht sinking into a puddle, a very small camel trudging across a very small sand dune, a petite sightseer atop a surveillance camera, and a Hot Wheels Lamborghini splattered with life-sized bird poop.
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Surrounded by gilt, velvet and crystal, a glass of champagne never far from his hand, the man known as the Swan King (played by the Austrian actor Helmut Berger) literally decays before our eyes, his teeth blackening in his mouth and his blue eyes sinking into his perfectly sculptured cheekbones.
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It was a period of reflection where he spent long hours caged in solitary confinement; feeling deserted at the bottom of the pile, as if the world had forgotten about him, shut off from his mother and his friends and the rest of Manchester, sinking into memories so deep they almost felt real.
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The men chatted idly in the heat, using a shared jargon, weighted with euphemism, black humor, and profanity, a private language unintelligible to a stranger: heading into the desert was 'going up the blue'; a raid was 'a party' or 'jolly'; grumbling was 'ticking'; sinking into sand was 'crash diving' or 'periscope work.
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Though there was some sophistication to what Ms. Bell and her crew did, a nod to postmodern dance highlighting the pivoting orientation of popular dances, it's hard to be smooth when your feet keep sinking into the sand and the 30-minute exercise took on some of the character of an endurance test.
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It captures how sinking into a great play can make that play feel as though it warps time, so everything is at once more elongated and much shorter than it should rightfully be, and the "to be or not to be" monologue takes five seconds but also a lifetime to play out.
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Their full-body encompassing state reminds us of all things safe and warm: drinking hot chocolate in a café while the autumn breeze kicks around colored leaves, sinking into said sweater on a couch while binging your favorite TV show as the snow softly piles up outside, being tucked in like a child before bed.
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"A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river, sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send an SOS to the government on climate inaction and draw attention to the threat humans face from climate change and rising sea levels," read a statement released by the group in connection with the event.
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Some European observers will probably see there an eerie reminder of the German diktat to the hard-pressed euro area countries to implement structural reforms and fiscal austerity, while they were sinking into recession, with rising unemployment, heart-wrenching poverty, lengthening soup-kitchen lines and more than half of young people deprived of jobs and meaningful future.
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After seven years, the pair identified a rough pattern among displaced children: some had not regained their footing, losing years of schooling and later sinking into unemployment; others adapted, even thrived; and there was a third group, of young people in an uncertain holding pattern, keeping themselves upright but unsteadily, managing lingering effects, like depression or anxiety.
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Not long after taking over at the Trust, Ms. Wils, along with Diana L. Taylor, the chairwoman of the Trust's board of directors and the longtime companion of former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, approached Mr. Diller about rebuilding Pier 255, a narrow finger pier where the Trust held concerts and other gatherings, that was slowly sinking into the river.
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Her book is full of unforgettable scenes and vignettes — Baloch, pretending to be a clueless urbanite, her stilettos sinking into the mud on a reality show set in a village like the one where she was raised; a television talk show blurring her cleavage-spot to capitalize on her risqué image, even though she is wearing nothing revealing.
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For investors who resisted the urge to rebalance their portfolio as recently as a month ago, you may be feeling more than a tinge of regret right about now for not doing so, with the S&P 54 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both sinking into negative territory for 2529 on Wednesday after setting new all-time highs just one month ago.
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" Having done some computer programming in college, Nolan partnered with a friend and made the website for Memento himself, telling Mashable, "It's still up there; we did it as an effort to extend the storytelling into the marketing in a fashion that allowed the audience to start sinking into the world and the characters of the film even before they sat down and watched the movie.
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Most of us don't walk around in custom Dior or black velvet Christian Siriano tuxedo dresses, so sinking into the couch a few times a year to bask in the sparkle and shine of the red carpet is a welcome distraction, and a reminder that despite what it throws at you, life does go on, sometimes with the help of a few celebrities in diamond-studded gowns.
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I thought I'd dust off some old Gilded Age anecdotes for this post but upon googling "ostentatious displays of wealth" found myself sinking into a truffle-scented morass of modern day Caligulas watering their golf courses using golden blimps filled with Evian water and hiring someone to "do" their dishes by flinging dirty ones into the trash and bringing in new sets for every meal.
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The Nets, originally a member of the upstart American Basketball Association — the team won two titles in the league with the red-white-and-blue ball, before having to sell off star player Julius Erving to afford the admission fee for joining the NBA and sinking into decades of mediocrity — had been through as many owners as it had arenas, drifting from New Jersey to Long Island and back to New Jersey again.
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Those histories are distinct, but parallel, each of them a sprawling geological map of futility an epoch or two in the making—long expanses of arid salt flats on which nothing can grow; hopeful master-planned developments long ago given over to the mosquitos and snakes, now sinking into inky brackish swamp; the turbulent Straits of Zambrano and the flat expanse of Lake Candiotti, not a drop of potable water in either one.
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She has always been, as she explains in Black Swans, a "shimmering charismatic," and resultantly, a polestar for "fun" and devil-may-care delight, that she and her companions: are such gluttons for narcissistic fantasies ... that we began our lives knowing that sinking into gracious old age, being happy about grandchildren, planning family dinners, being proud we put children through college or had children not in jail — these are not the things we meant by "life" when we started.
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"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is replacing four campus buildings with a dysfunctional, unaffordable, budget-busting billion dollar building that will dismantle the historic collections that have made LACMA the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi," the text continued, below a photomontage of a rendering of Zumthor's building plunging into the ocean (presumably inspired by architect Stanley Tigerman's iconic 1403 photo-montage of a Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall sinking into Lake Michigan).
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