Sentences with phrase «massive train wreck»

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There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

Reading the US reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook you would have thought that the launch of the company's first tablet was a train wreck of massive proportions, a device that you shouldn't touch with a barge pole.

A massive Dane running down a flight of stairs or a hallway is a train wreck waiting to happen, especially when it's sharing the track with other family members.

Like a lot of people who watched that train wreck up close, I came away wanting to understand the massive gap between the euphoric expectations of the environmental movement and the real political outcomes.