Sentences with phrase «slow train wreck»

His career has followed the path of what could only be described as an extremely slow train wreck.

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

Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Contopoulos called the sector a «slow moving train wreck.»

Sprinkle in ongoing growth slowdowns in emerging markets such as Brazil and the recipe for the market's slow motion summer train wreck becomes clearer.

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.

«Life will continue, but it will be a train wreck in slow motion,» he says, perhaps resisting the temptation to note that no, we won't all have to go live on Mars yet.

• A sudden collapse in fertility produces a slow - motion train wreck in a third - world society, as the age cohorts collapse in accordion fashion.

Sometimes it's like watching a slow - mo train wreck: the trail of destruction is at once cringe - worthy and absolutely fascinating — you just can't look away.

Quincey has looked slow to me, but hasn't been the train wreck that Lovejoy has been.

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

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.

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.

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

On a reptile level, I think it behoves the herd to slow down at the scene of a gory end, the flock imprinting another's messy mortal lesson as an explanation for our fascination with train wrecks and splatter flicks.

The film lingers on the consequences of celebrity and fame, and the cruelty of the public eye — but does so in its own voyeuristic way that feels like watching a train wreck for a second time, in slow motion, and with commentary.

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.

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.

It has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion after having had a sip of Scalosian water.

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.

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

We stumbled over words, our voices breaking as we tripped over our slow - moving, train - wreck avatars.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.»

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

ALEC also offers a document titled «EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: Strategies for State Legislators» that «outlines best practices for state legislators (including following the many states that are considering resolutions in 2011 to call for Congress to slow and stop this regulatory onslaught [by the EPA]-RRB-.»

This is facinating (maybe like a slow - motion train wreck).

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

A train wreck in slow motion.

Whether it's alternative facts, fake news, Trump's battle with judges and courts or Trump's senior staff having surreptitious dealings with Russian intelligence agents prior to him becoming president (which the Republican - controlled Senate and House refuse to investigate), I think the world is seeing a slow - motion train wreck unfold on a daily basis.

It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion, knowing that I was driving the train.