Slipping that thought into a case about the treatment of a Christian student group reminded some of a technique perfected by Justice William J. Brennan Jr., whose fellow justices were wary of his "time bombs".
"I call his speeches time bombs," a papal aide once told me.
Fuct has the scars to earn the bars, as evident in the story of his first time bombing with Augor MSK.
Cooper was his own ticking time bomb who was brought in to show the result of trying to ignore who you truly are.
At one time, she scurried around New York carrying an unmarked brown paper bag in which lay the manuscript that her husband had described to his editor as a "time bomb".
Even in a Valley that worships productivity, he is an outlier, plowing through e-mails and meetings as if strapped to a time bomb, his unblinking stare speeding up colleagues until they sound like chipmunks.
But the entire season, Lane has been his own personal ticking time bomb.
In that respect, it resembles parts of The Hurt Locker, when Jeremy Renner's character returns to the U.S. and can't cope with the dullness of everyday life after spending his time defusing bombs.
By doing so, he will be able to say he made good on his promise not to shut the government down again, while simultaneously leaving a ticking time bomb for his successor -- and one with a very short fuse.
He said the attack on Dr. Petit set off his aggressions "like a ticking time bomb".
