Sentences with phrase «motion train wreck»

It's almost like a slow motion train wreck where viewers are powerless to look away.

Given the slow motion train wreck that publishing seems to be right now, I'd say quitting your day job to write full time might be... risky.

The slow - motion train wreck began with an obscure Tax Court of Canada ruling in 2003, in which the judge sided with insurer State Farm against the Canada Revenue Agency.

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.

This is an industry grappling with potentially gigantic changes that may be forced on it by technological advances, and as someone who works in both the journalism and technology fields, I get the feeling that I've seen some version of this same slow - motion train wreck before.

There are real problems out there, Andy, and those of us who are willing to read about the slow - motion train wreck of the global environment need someone brave and unconnected enough to critique all sides of the story.

Prediction: «The eurozone is a slow - motion train wreck,» Roubini said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2012.

For the afflicted countries, this is a slow - motion train wreck.

Just imagine if Lincoln had started the Gettysburg Address with his original text, which is believed to have been «These past 87 years have been one hell of a slow - motion train wreck, amiright?»

Still, Marist pollster Lee Miringoff says the next bad news that comes out the slow - motion train wreck that is the Weiner saga could force his resignation.

Spore's biology grades rolled in like a slow - motion train wreck.

Hall plays Chubbuck like a slow - motion train wreck.

In pushing his waiver initiative — which, Department of Education spokesperson Sara Gast said, is not yet finalized — he described the current state of NCLB as a «slow - motion train wreck.»

Three weeks ago, Duncan told reporters that his office is seeking to develop a «plan B» for saving schools from what he called the impending «slow - motion train wreck» of NCLB.

On Monday, the Obama administration said it would use waivers to provide regulatory relief to states, confirming an earlier plan that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan first mentioned in June in light of what he called a «slow - motion train wreck» created by the law.

Because of that delay, Duncan has said he wants to find a «Plan B» to stop the «slow - motion train wreck» of NCLB by waiving some of the requirements for individual states in exchange for a commitment to a «basket» of accountability - focused reforms.

These three include the «slow motion train wreck», «catalyst - driven price reset», or a sudden crash.

As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.

The slow motion train wreck that is the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver break - up shows no sign of halting anytime soon as rumors of yet more secret illegitimate children are now surfacing.