Sentence examples similar to dead end capacity from inspiring English sources

In this utterly delightful play, two mid-lifers – a female divorce lawyer and a man who is celebrating his 35th birthday in his normal dead-end capacity as a receiver of stolen goods for a gangster – hook up in a bar, go to bed for abandoned, semi-anonymous sex, and latterly go on a spree with the £25,000 he should be handing over to his distinctly unsavoury boss.

In fact, selfing lineages or taxa are typically assumed to be an evolutionary 'blind alley', or 'dead end' ([ 14– 17]; selfing as an evolutionary dead end or SEDE hypothesis), presumably because of their limited capacity to adapt to changing environment, or their susceptibility to the accumulation of deleterious mutations [ 2, 7, 14].

It was dead end after dead end after dead end.

Yet another dead end.

This was a dead end.

It is a dead end.

It's a dead end".

A dead end...

"That is a dead end," he said.

It seemed like a dead end.

The batteries were always the dead end.