Sentence examples for time bomb of a from inspiring English sources

Fassel's time bomb of a season ticks on.

In the absence of any solid ideas as to what the government might do to solve our ticking time bomb of a housing situation, Barwell wants the private sector to "innovate" solutions to the crisis.

Tensions between South Korea and the North remained high after the Korean War, exacerbated by such incidents as the assassination attempt on Park Chung-Hee by North Korean commandos in 1968, the bombing in Rangoon in 1983, and the North's destruction by time bomb of a South Korean airliner over the Thai-Burmese border in 1987.

"His heart finally gave out," Reed said of his son, Neil, who was treated for arrhythmia as a high school player in the early 1990s, or about the time that potential time bomb of a condition cost the Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis his life.

A ticking time bomb of a movie that starts out simmering and ends with gory, tense (and literal) explosions, The Invitation was an undoubted comeback for Kusama and she's capitalized on it since with My Only Living Son, her excellent contribution to this year's otherwise so-so horror anthology XX.

A time bomb of an engine: the 8.4-liter V-10 produces 640 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque, and is mated to a 6-speed manual transmission.

Do you think that's OK?'" "A big, thoroughly unlikable time bomb of an oaf I worked with in grad school walked in, whipped it out, started to wizz, and then put his hands on his hips and stood like that the whole time he pittled," says Stuart.

A child on a long-haul flight is a time bomb of energy.

There is "a time bomb of frustrated, disenfranchised youth", says Joan Baxter of Partnership Africa Canada, a charity.The diamond slump may have reached its bottom.

Perpetual war, grinding poverty and a time bomb of overpopulation resulting in millions of refugees crossing continents.

That novel was "Portnoy's Complaint" (1969) — a time bomb of cawing, stinging comedy (it is even typographically explosive, setting the aggregate record, in mainstream fiction, for exclamation marks, block caps and italics).