Its premise is that, sometime in the near future, there's an American civil war — over what, we're never told — in which Manhattan has become a bullet-riddled no man's land between the Free States (on the Jersey side) and the United States (which has managed to hold Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island).
And since chauvinism became a bullet in the battles of nineteen-sixties feminism, who remembers that the original chauvinist was the possibly mythical Nicolas Chauvin, a French military man whose blind belief in his leader was unfazed even after he was maimed and disfigured seventeen times?
"Discussions about attacking Iran began with the nuclear issue, but it has now become a silver bullet to also deal with Iran's activities with Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas, and even to provoke a process of regime change," said Augustus Richard Norton, a retired Army colonel now at Boston University.
For the music industry, streaming has become a silver bullet.
From reducing stress and strengthening your immune system to aiding in female bladder control or prostate health, sex has become a silver bullet in our culture.
It's evidence of just how broken our political system is that something so simple, beneficial, and economical has become a silver bullet with which conservatives hope to dismantle all of health care reform.
She said she also worried that King would continue along Duncan's ideological path, including his preference for spurring the growth of charters, which she said has become a dangerous "magic bullet" strategy in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
The prices of essential goods, all soaring because of the high cost of air and sea transport, might fall.More broadly, locals hope that peace will return to a land that was once a cradle of Tamil erudition and culture but has become a battlefield of bullet-pocked homes and shrapnel-scarred temples.
It's frantic stuff – all the bullets you fire bounce endlessly around the screen, so it quickly becomes a crazed bullet hell challenge just to stay alive.
He says that Ecuador could become "another Venezuela," and he warns that his opponent "will become a dictator and give you bullets, bullets and bullets".
Such reliance often sets expectations of what the tool can achieve to dangerously high levels and the tool eventually becomes a "silver bullet".
