For a two-minute downhill ski race, competitors want the slipperiest surface possible.
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And in doing so, it might just be the slipperiest page yet in an already stacked playbook of trolls.
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She chastised and then forgave the slipperiest member of her retinue, Varys, winning his loyalty and his honesty in the process.
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So was Immanuel Kant, for whom it was one of the slipperiest rights of the sovereign, a majestic encouragement to injustice.
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Traditionally, one of the slipperiest things about talking to God is trying to tell someone else about it after the fact.
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Experts acknowledged the multiple cultural hazards involved — including obtaining informed consent, perhaps the slipperiest issue — but were impressed the trial happened at all.
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The mystery of Pence and Pompeo They are remarkable figures in all this and prove the slipperiest creatures can float to the top.
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The G8 is a good phone that packs more power, but it's the slipperiest phone I've ever used and has some silly gimmicks.
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She is the slipperiest performer working in country music's top tier, doing just enough to stay there, and even more to remind you how little she thinks of its limitations.
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To get that speed, competitive racers spend hours crafting the perfect combination of chemical waxes to reduce friction over changing snow conditions and achieve the slipperiest surface between snow and ski.
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On view now is a sharp, droll exhibition of exactingly staged self-portraits by Rodney Graham, the slipperiest of the half-dozen conceptual photographers who came of age in 1980s Vancouver.
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Track cycling is a pretty scary event: It requires hurtling across the world's slipperiest-seeming track, strapped to a bike with no brakes, and precariously bumping elbows with a handful of ferocious competitors.
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"Every time we let straight relatives bury our dead and push our lovers away — it was an act of perversion," she proclaims, making it clear that self-denial is the slipperiest of gay slopes.
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In the five years that passed between his last album and "22, a Million," his new one to be released Friday — his slipperiest and least tactile effort — Mr. Vernon largely returned to the mist.
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The slipperiest example of the day was a piece by Matt Zoller Seitz on New York magazine's Vulture site about a new Nancy Drew show on the CW. Robert Fowler, a TV curator, laid out the problem.
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Johnny quickly finds himself outclassed in the sleaze department as Bongo turns out to be the slipperiest slime of them all.
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NPR's Stephen Thomson said the album contains "some of Ritter's slipperiest, nimblest wordplay"Stephen Thomson, "Review: Josh Ritter, 'Sermon On The Rocks'", NPR, October 7, 2015. and Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone commented that the record used "Eighties textures" and "vivid character sketches" to yield a very different result from its predecessor, The Beast in Its Tracks.Jonathan Bernstein, "Sermon on the Rocks" (review), Rolling Stone, October 29, 2015.
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They packed light, bringing along thermal earmuffs to play outdoors, and Vaseline to prevent windburn on their faces. Rex MacLeod of The Globe and Mail remarked, "The Lyndhursts might not be the best team Canada has ever sent abroad, but without doubt they would be the slipperiest". They sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe aboard the RMS Queen Mary, and reached Cherbourg, France on January 28. The Lyndhursts played their first game of the tour on January 30 in Paris, and lost by an 11–2 score to a team of Canadian all-stars from the British National League.
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The area that comprises today's Joseph Lee neighborhood was part of the Baltimore Canton Company's (founded by Peter Cooper, William Patterson, Robert Oliver, and Columbus O'Donnell) original purchase of of land in 1828. While most of the development of the land occurred nearer to the waterfront before the 1900s, the company was still involved in the development when the Joseph Lee neighborhood was created. In the book, "Streetwise Baltimore: the stories behind baltimore street names" by Carleton Jones, an entry for "Drew Street" is found on page 66 that reads: > Dan Drew was one of the slipperiest Wall Street customers who ever graced > New York, but he also invested in Baltimore's Canton Company. In a 1918 > annexation the firm, large east side landowners, christened the street in > Drew's name.
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