No pitch produces quite as much embarrassment — for the hitter who flails in vain, or the pitcher who leaves it flat in the strike zone, with the speed of a high school pitch, and watches it soar off the bat.
Yet, I'm having the opposite problem – every time I get within striking distance of a bird, it soars off into the distance.
And, spring after spring, I watch as girls with corn-silk hair soar off campus in open cars, bound, I imagine, for supernal débutante parties, nymph dances amid rolling pastures beyond the last commuter stop, in some mystic arch-suburb that is the real Pennsylvania.
Either way, if it's a choice between just sweating for hours while your mates soar off without you, then feeling fucking atrocious, versus simply carrying on as normal, I know which I'd rather pick.
Seeing good shots soar off your driver is a rush.
It threatens to soar off into the incomprehensible, like an untethered helium balloon.
Some depart from traditional mandala patterns to soar off on their own, and it's hard to find dull examples.
He and his mates pile their Uglies into a plastic crate named the Voyager and soar off.
The situation gives the playwright a chance to soar off into ostensibly poetic fancies involving celestial metaphors and spiritual mystery.
Of course, you'll point out, such transformations often depend on a dominant newcomer, like Ure, providing the momentum to soar off on a new course.
