Sentence examples for landmine of from inspiring English sources

What a joy of a book and what an absolute landmine of language.

Three months ago the Mail on Sunday unearthed a small but potent landmine of a political story.

So when American companies go there, they will find a landmine of patents with which they'll be extorted.

One of the beauties of parenting is that you never know which landmine of dorkiness you'll step on that will cause your kids to erupt in an embarrassed explosion of laughter or revulsion.

It's a landmine of a show really, with the role of the chauffeur (a very particular character from a very specific time and place, to be fair) fraught with the dangers of making decency and kindness seem like humility or just the black man knowing his place.

He contains every fault, every landmine of our culture's last decade: ugly polos, clothing with the names written on them in big bold letters, armchair political activism, sneaker obsession, falling defenselessly in love with a Kardashian, a fascination with Scott Disick, silly jokes about sitcoms, getting drunk and doing shocking things in front of pretty white girls, writing all-caps blog posts.

The term boilerplate describes the sheets of pearl-gray ice that skiers and riders recognize as the landmines of mountain trails.

For 18 months Theresa May has looked unassailable in her kitten heels, two-stepping deftly past the landmines of policing reform and immigration caps.

They had to bail Citigroup out twice in the financial crisis, and the bank also stepped on many of the financial landmines of the previous two decades.

Watching "Anita" was even more maddening: the proceedings were a betrayal not just of women but of a particular kind of black woman who had to navigate the landmines of both gender and race.

Chinese has negligible grammar — no singular or plural, no verb conjugations, no pesky masculine and feminine nouns — but there are thousands of characters to memorize as well as the landmines of any tonal language.