Sentence examples for virtually buried from inspiring English sources

"Russia is virtually buried in Afghan heroin.

"Detail was piled on detail, technical effect on technical effect, until the story was virtually buried under their weight," Richard Schickel wrote in his book "The Disney Version".

It doesn't relate to what's happening today, nor does it attempt to be perceptive and curious in the way that Rei Kawakubo was with her Comme des Garçons brides, who were virtually buried under satin and flowers.

The Daily Mirror, which might have been expected to make much of an internal cabinet dispute, virtually buried the story in a sidebar on a spread about terrorist threats.

Born in the 1930's, come of age in the 1950's and 60's, and pronounced near dead in the 1970's and virtually buried by the closing of magazines/rise of the internet--you have to wonder how it is that some aspects of this wonderful world are still around.

Although Romanticism persisted in music much longer than in almost every area, it fell out of fashion in the twentieth century and anti-Romantic currents in Britain virtually buried Victorian and Edwardian music not written by Edward Elgar or Arthur Sullivan.

"No one has found anything like this since the turn of the last century," Dr. Arthur A. Demarest, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and leader of the discovery team, said yesterday in describing the palace, which dates from the eighth century A.D. "What is most incredible about this site is that most of the palace is buried virtually intact".

Why, things are so bad down there they sent a self-destructing letter to one of their agents and it came back 'Opened by Mistake.' " Superficially, this might be termed a topical joke, but its topicality is virtually meaningless, being buried in traditional show-business paraphernalia.

Painting in loose, novelistic strokes, Gaskell explained to her readers that if they had been locked away in a remote parsonage with two dead siblings buried virtually in the garden and a father who came down to breakfast with a loaded pistol, then they too might grow up with an imagination warped towards the morbid.

Re "A Cemetery for the Living" (Aug. 31), about the New York City Marble Cemetery: Most New Yorkers are unaware that a historically important yet virtually unknown person is buried in the "sister" cemetery, New York Marble Cemetery.

In Britain state capital spending is virtually uncontrolled, because it is buried in future debt.