"Inception" had its faults, but the frictionless ease with which it slipped from one reverie to the next kept it buoyant and alert; Nolan knew, as Buster Keaton knew, that moviegoers are paying dreamers, even if Keaton also knew, and proved in "Sherlock Jr.," that dreams are more fragmentary than Nolan would admit.
I wanted to be freaked or frightened by "Asylum," instead of which it slipped down as blamelessly as a BBC costume drama, and Marton Csokas's Edgar appears to be suffering less from homicidal insanity than from a stubborn strain of randy plaintiveness.
In the end, ICI House's chief legacy became its size, on lists of which it steadily slipped down.
It could also expand Yahoo's appeal to young people, an area in which it has slipped.
The knot needs to be set pretty firmly after being tied, after which it won't slip.
The voice of the instrument, which barely takes shape before it slips away, gives you a face, and perhaps a picture of a woman sitting in a room no one else is allowed to enter; the voice of the singer puts the woman in a rocking chair.
All that and the company admitted in the midst of it all that its growth rate will likely slip, which, it dryly noted, "could negatively impact [its] stock price".
One is how he clearly has no idea what Google Play is and how, upon learning that it's essentially an Amazon competitor, makes a joke about it (in which he slips up and calls it Google Plus).
If your hand slips off — which it often will — the timer restarts.
