Sentence examples for headlong flight from inspiring English sources

Today, American conservatives are in headlong flight from their President's democratic evangelism.

Like any reasonable person, Bayley is appalled by Sid's headlong flight into oblivion.

Duiker derives from the Afrikaans duikerbok ("diving buck"), which describes the sudden headlong flight of duikers flushed from hiding.

Thus the settlers' headlong flight eastward, especially on the Texas frontier, where such raiding was at its worst.

Mrs. Elvsted, despite her headlong flight from a loveless marriage, often comes across as priggish; but Sara Topham's vigorous performance lets us see the character's ecstatic side.

Which is to say that "Tag" is a late, anxious variation on the dominant theme of modern American film comedy, namely the headlong flight from maturity.

Loving also resembles his headlong-flight road movie Midnight Special in that, here, returning to Virginia is like a perilous spy mission, and love itself an act of resistance.

Gary Sinise, as a ruthless hotel developer with vague underworld ties, sneers and grimaces a few times and then tumbles headlong down a flight of stairs.

In the morning we took a wildflower walk through a live-oak forest, stopped off at the Children's Museum of Houston and then rushed headlong for a flight home.

After an intricate tandem improvisation, they closed with a cascading line in tight harmony, evoking the thrill of a headlong race down a flight of stairs.

But we shall see how certain fugitive and fortuitous impressions carry us back even more effectively to the past, with a more delicate precision, with a more light-winged, more immaterial, more headlong, more unerring, more immortal flight, than these organic dislocations.