Suggest a manhole, and he'd plummet straight down it.
And as for the leap, well, I'd rather call it a plunge, plummeting straight to ground like a dropped, stolid, clunking brick.
Hardly surprising then that he is getting increasingly anxious about Sunderland's collective plight as they continue to flirt with the prospect of once again plummeting straight out of the top flight.
This is called snapping off the lip, but few can consistently pull off the maneuver with the precision that Gilmore does: she attacks the lip at a dead-vertical angle, rockets up the most powerful part of the wave, and then turns sharply and plummets straight into the critical, turbulent area near where the wave is breaking.
Among them are "Bird #1," in which the blue-and-white body, red feet, and white tail feathers of a bird (but not the head) are shown plummeting straight down, out of the canvas, and "God Nose," an expanse of celestial blue canvas with a small cloud near the top and, below it, a disembodied white-and-gold shape that is clearly a nose but not a mortal nose.
Suddenly, a raindrop weighing about 50 times as much as the mosquito plummets straight down toward the insect.
There's barely a moment to digest that feat before plummeting straight down to a banked curve back to the start.
The flyer swings to a great height and then plummets straight down, headfirst.
Rather than plummeting straight back to Earth, the warhead glides, traveling faster than 3,500 miles an hour before it hits its target.
