The idea here too was that the western expansion is obviously very, very, very over it's just sort of lapping backwards now—and it felt like you hit the coast and you just lapped back into the desert.
Having scored a distribution deal for this microbudget film she shot with friends in Seattle over a handful of days last summer, Ms. Shelton embarked on a sort of victory lap of the festival circuit.
His doctor asked if this flurry of late-life action was some sort of "victory lap".
And so this food tour, 10 years in the making, was a sort of victory lap with a snack.
Indeed, the Westway owners say they want to achieve the same sort of ironic, lap dance-free, this-is-not-a-real-topless-club feel.
He was taking the orange truck on a sort of victory lap, pointing out shooting locations and passers-by who acted in the film.
This show, the first of three sold-out nights here, doubled as a sort of victory lap for the band, which is made up of four recent Columbia grads.
At one point, he let it be known that Mrs. Clinton would be given a couple of days' grace to take some sort of victory lap around the state — as if a brand-new secretary of state would put off trivialities like America's two wars and the shaky cease-fire in Gaza so she could say thank you to Utica.
The parade in New York City, where the first pride march was held 44 years ago to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that kicked off the modern gay rights movement, was also a sort of victory lap for Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old widow who challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act after she was forced to pay $363,053 on the estate of her late wife.
And then, as best I can tell, fed the story to the NY TImes as a sort of victory lap.
