Sentence examples for dead end from from inspiring English sources
This then is the Nietzschean dead end from which Western philosophy has still not emerged.
Many of his keenest Kikuyu supporters must realise that his refusal to budge is leading all Kenyans, whether supporters of himself or Mr Odinga, into a bloody and bankrupting dead end from which it may soon become impossible to retreat.
The offspring of these unions tend to be infertile, and thus a dead end from an evolutionary standpoint.
I bowed to no one in my contempt for "Only God Forgives," which, a juicy performance from Kristin Scott Thomas aside, felt like a creative dead end from a talented filmmaker.
It therefore seems fair to say that they may well be stuck in an evolutionary dead end, from which more elaborate life forms are extremely unlikely to arise.
Everyone hits a dead end from time to time; those who have emotional and mental strength are able to find another way to get where they're going.
Through various fits, starts, and dead ends from Australopithecus to Paranthropus, through various Homo species like erectus and habilis, to modern sapiens, our lineage is short.
After hearing story upon story of bureaucratic dead ends from Alon's daughters, Burton was moved to write a book offering an explanation.
However a consequence of the evolution of fully terrestrial/freshwater life histories, as in this Jamaican sesarmid radiation, is that it may restrict crabs to the island they evolved on, rendering them evolutionary dead ends from a global perspective.
The Gotthard tunnel was the Swiss Suez Canal, Helmut Stalder says: "Before it, Switzerland was a dead end; then, from one day to another, it was the heart of the Continent".
There are up to a dozen possible routes, and the direct one versus the scenic one versus the loop-de-loop versus the dead end changes from person to person.
