W. and Dick Cheney were too headlong, jumping off crazy cliffs and dragging the country — and the world — with them.
The United States, Germany and Japan had similar tales to tell in the late 19th century, but bust was the price of boom, and for Germany as well as Japan (add Russia, too), headlong industrialization ended in the horrors of 20th-century totalitarianism.
His basic point (and a hardly surprising one, given abundant evidence of its validity) was that Supreme Court justices and other federal judges have too often plunged headlong into election-law cases like Citizens United (of which he is critical) without fully grasping the consequences of their decisions.
As in "Headlong," slightly too much seems to happen toward the end, abetted by too many artfully delayed recognitions.
But the case of biofuels shows that without proper consideration of all greenhouse gases, not just CO2, it is too easy to rush headlong into expensive methods of mitigation that actually make things worse.
Finding themselves – and their lost brethren – is the rest of the movie, and an hour of it is expertly wrought culture-shock stuff (with, oddly, no racism at all), until the narrative telescopes a tad too drastically in a headlong 20-minute rush to the finish.
If their parents aren't helicoptering in too much, they run headlong into the world with joyous abandon.
But the headlong rush recruited too many players in too short a time to build a team ethos.
Too often they are rushing headlong merely to establish their business and fight off competitors.
Preadolescents in those days, the singers Ann Hampton Callaway, now in her early 50s, and Liz, her slightly younger sister, were born a little too late to throw themselves headlong into the fray.
His success is one of the movie's false notes; photographers tend to get too sweet a deal in headlong movies, licensed to stay reflective, or romantic, while all around are cutting loose, and Rocket duly earns our affection by trying to win that of Angelica (Alice Braga), a beauty on the beach.
