Sentence examples for the balloon of from inspiring English sources

"The balloon of success".

Indeed, the balloon of unrealistic prospects is losing air.

Danger's appearance near the end of Act I slowly lets the air out of the balloon of their memories.

His gloriously inept approaches burst the balloon of literary pretensions, while remaining deeply affectionate towards the writers and books.

Yet the man trying to prick the balloon of publicity is the one whose performances have inflated it.

The Magnetic Fields Lyric Hammersmith, London W6 Songwriter Stephin Merritt has little time for the balloon of romance.

"She can puncture the balloon of this," he added, making him feel like the same person he was 5 or 10 years ago.

"It pokes a hole in the balloon of bad news after more bad news," said Richard I. Sichel, chief investment officer of the Philadelphia Trust Company.

"One of the reasons the air has gone out of the balloon of protest songwriting is people hung their hopes on the Obama administration".

Christie is the first to prick the balloon of "trendy feminism": she is a feminist, of course (which is a bit like, as she argues, saying, "I'm a non-racist!").

The real pleasure of Shaw's play, even if it does creak like a leaky old barge, is just how modern it can seem, whether it is pricking the balloon of morality or hypocrisy.