Sentences with phrase «ingloriously in a slump»

As I transferred the sheet pan from the oven to a waiting baking rack, I must have lost focus for a moment, because an instant later I was watching — in seemingly slow motion — the pie pan skittering off the baking sheet to imminent death below, the crust shattering on impact and the whole gingery, beautiful mess landing ingloriously in a slump on the kitchen floor.