Sentences with phrase «dead albatross»

The only reason MS is even in this mess is because they wanted Kinect to be the face of the gaming division, and they hung that dead albatross on the Xbox One's neck at launch.

The contents of this dead albatross chick's stomach include plastic debris scavenged from the ocean.

Not exact matches

While the albatross is shot dead in the classic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, the Playbook lives on — it seems RIM can't afford to shoot it down yet.

The Southern Ocean is home to several species that are near extinction, including the albatross, a large sea bird that in ancient folklore was believed to carry the souls of dead sailors.

I stepped on Midway Island to find an albatross dead from ingesting plastic, the ripped open decaying body lying on the beach with multi-colored plastic caps and debris embedded in its stomach, a common sight on the remote island.

I nearly stumbled over it — a dead adult Laysan Albatross whose head rested up against a bright blue rubber flip flop washed ashore at some point, probably during the tsunami last year.