Sentence examples for with leaden emphasis from inspiring English sources

"Wales," George said, with leaden emphasis.

"Yeah?" Blankenship asked with leaden sarcasm.

"But I wasn't ever in a band," she says, delivering the word with leaden gravitas.

Dhoni plays with leaden feet and Jimmy Anderson at second slip pouches a nonchalant catch.

They were playing with leaden legs after being forced, because of rain delays during the first week, to win six matches in as many days.

Then with leaden feet which stumbled in a sudden darkness that overwhelmed me I groped my way back to the empty house.

A nice piece of Chilean sea bass was overpowered by a strong miso glaze and paired with leaden wasabi mashed potatoes.

Luigi Pirandello's plays - legendary antidotes to naturalism - are strange amalgams: clever notions streaked with leaden exposition and whimsical flourishes.

The marriage of food and music can still be discordant, sublime jazz coupled with leaden crab cakes.

But no clear choice is forthcoming and Hoffman moves through both darker and lighter moments with leaden feet.

In his memoir, he recalled that the war seemed to drag on "with leaden feet", and that he was relieved when it finally ended.