Sentence examples for like a dead weight from inspiring English sources

The court heard that he then fell to the ground like "a dead weight".

That terror sat upon my shoulders, and sat in my stomach like a dead weight.

At the 9th, though, he began his remarkable descent, dropping down the leaderboard like a dead weight.

His most profitable film to date, it picked up eight Oscar nominations, and suddenly Tarantino no longer looked like a dead weight from some hipster past.

It takes far too long to chew and I'm sure it's what's been sitting like a dead weight in my stomach since first bite.

But her inspiration sits like a dead weight behind the button-pushing, coded direction of Jason Reitman, who turns it into a Mr. Potato Head movie: he sticks traits on typecast bodies to fabricate characters to his needs, and he shoots the movie to match, with short clip-like scenes or shots that insert and highlight these traits.

Liking its appearance, "a dead weight in front of a building" with a touch of the sarcophagus, he persuaded Camden council to part with it.

Nicole Kidman, Hollywood's reigning ice maiden, spent what seemed like hours dragging a dead weight around the Brechtian set of Dogville.

Or is nostalgia more a dead weight than an anchor?

She is fitted with an iron neck brace and bell, and shackled to a dead weight.

Another relative described it as a "dead weight of a name".