Sentences with phrase «circling in a holding pattern»

With less focus on the battlefield, we spend more time at home with Anakin and Padme (Natalie Portman), who are faced with the news of an unexpected delivery (at least unexpected for them... there isn't a soul in the audience who isn't aware the stork has been circling in a holding pattern for some time now).

We were unable to land because of severe turbulence, so we circled in a holding pattern over New York City.

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Moving back and forth in a holding pattern, instead of having an outward focus of wider and wider concentric circles of social growth away from the home of origin has a retarding effect on childhood security, and disrupts the teenager's progress toward social maturity and emotional competence.