Sentence examples for slippery downward from inspiring English sources
So was "At the Movies" — which was also called "Sneak Previews," "Siskel and Ebert," "Ebert and Roeper" and other names during its long, storied run — the start of a slippery downward slope or the summit of the critical art?
But I can speak from painful experience about the slippery downward slope of the past 50 years.
The true exit is concealed, and escape is prevented by slippery walls and downward-pointing hairs.
"From the perspective of a newly invigorated Rome," Mr. O'Shea writes, "all of this took on the appearance of an infernal downward spiral, a slippery slope of moral and spiritual degeneracy".
In general, trapping hairs and slippery surfaces made up by downward-pointing papillate cells are common trapping devices that occur in several other genera of Araceae (Bröderbauer et al., 2012), in pollination traps of other angiosperms and even in the pitcher traps of carnivorous plants (Poppinga et al., 2010).
And I am not seeking to push the institution of marriage downward along a nihilistic slippery slope (you know -- the one which starts with two men marrying and ends with two men marrying one woman and her aging Labrador Retriever for whom health insurance would otherwise be financially prohibitive).
If an insect or other organism falls into the pitcher, stiff downward-pointing hairs and slippery walls prevent it from crawling back out.
It's probably impossible to know whether Temple was using the phrase in conversation before it appeared in the 1887 novel Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey, where it is lamented: "Alas, Hugh Redmond was not the only man who, stung by passion, jealousy, or revenge, has taken the first downward step on the green slippery slope that leads to Avernus".
The adaxial spathe epidermis consists of downward-pointing papillate cells that are slippery and cause the insects to glide into the floral chamber (Knoll, 1926), which is formed by the inflated spathe.
