| 单词 | slippery |
| 例句 | In spring, ripened fruit littered the ground to make walking a hazardous, slippery adventure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still handcuffed, Cole crawled awkwardly over the bow onto the slippery rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Moving as quickly as we dare on the slippery ledge, we make our way to a narrow bridge and cross it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I grabbed the end of the Agena with both hands, but it was hard to hold on, because the end of the docking collar was tapered and slippery, and my pressurized gloves were awkward. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingertips make small swirling patterns in the cool, slippery earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She tries to grab the slippery railing ledge, but her hand slides right off and she goes plummeting down. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He shoves me through dank passageways and down slippery staircases. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A competent soldier, but a man who works with an eye to the future, a slippery man, a careful soldier; he will build his reputation whatever the cost. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk Sarah up the steps to the front door: these steps can be slippery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This time, when it got to the end of the tub, it decided to jump up the slippery curve. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z They were still narrow and slippery, but no longer darkly threatening. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I was dusting when I saw the picture: a rough shell holding slippery, slimy innards and, right in the middle, a perfect, iridescent white pearl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sickening thud usually came after a shot rang out. slippery slope. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So she was, and soon two slippery, shiny, brand-new calves were lying in the dirt of the pit, and Tansy was licking and nuzzling them gently. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The same was true of the public cloakroom—a damp, slippery, dark place full of dripping coats, bags, hats, and gloves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Miraculously, Matty’s shoes remained, coated with the slippery mud so that he appeared to be wearing heavy wet boots by the time he dragged himself from the other side of the swamp. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Shiny, slippery rats, fat and fast, poured in and out of the basket, twitching their noses and flicking their tails. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But while I think I had a sense of Foxface, who she was and how she operated, he's a little more slippery. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And if there’s one thing my dad hates, it’s slippery slopes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I take the slippery slice and shove it in my mouth. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It reached my hands, wet and slippery, it touched my neck, my chin, my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as though a person could walk out to sea on this reef, although it looked very rocky and slippery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too slippery to hold on to, but with both of us, we could push him against the bank as we stood on some tree roots to keep our footing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were vertical bars, smooth and no thicker than match sticks, which made them slippery to climb, but by turning more or less sideways, she was able to grip them fairly well. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He tried again to rise, but his arms and legs only sank into a slippery smoothness, like a deep silk pillow swallowing his limbs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z How high she was over his wand-lean body, how slippery was his sliding sliding smile. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Salmon are slippery fish, and Loki was the slipperiest of salmon; he wriggled and tried to slip through Thor’s fingers, but Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He pressed on, hoping his palms wouldn’t become too slippery to handle the weapon properly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z After looking around a bit, I perch on a slippery horsehair chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As the flap continues to drop, I find my feet scrambling, harder and harder, to find purchase on the slippery tiles. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The brown boulders covered in slippery seaweed looked like hairy trolls, and the medium stones shifted below us. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But the contact of tongues, alive and slippery muscle, moist flesh on flesh, and the strange sound it drew from her, changed that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s cold and warm and slippery and rigid, all at once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Three or four empty bullock carts passed us on the way to collect the broken stones, the bullocks drawing them struggling to get through the morass, their hides slippery with rain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed slopes so steep and slippery it was nearly impossible to keep their footing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A breeze was coming in the back, door, and some mourning doves that had nested on the back porch were cooing, making that slippery, burbling sound that Calder always associated with summer in his neighborhood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The rain was letting up, but the streets were as slippery and as smooth as melted soap, and one had to guess distances in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The world went even darker around him as his feet thumped to a landing on a slippery surface, then shot out from under him; he fell backward into Teresa’s arms. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Hazel followed him up out of the tide pool and up the slippery trail to solid ground. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The hill is steep and slippery with rocks and shale, land sliding down as I go up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Under their boots, the decks were slippery with the blood of the watchman, who now lay dead at the bottom of the main hatchway. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The three butterflies, two of them too skittish to sit next to the windows facing the steep drop just inches from the slippery road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a hard rubber ring with a slippery center. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Its fingernails scraped her skin, but it was too slippery to grip, and Coraline pulled away successfully. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The spray from the river coats it, making it slippery and cold. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Water surged around my legs, causing me to fall once on the slippery bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart landed on his head, buried two feet deep in wet slippery garbage. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “These are not high heels! There’s barely any heel. But the bottoms are slippery.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He found it easier to walk on the spongy grasses above tide fine instead of over the slippery rocks nearer the water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z My palms were sweating and slippery on the wheel. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The rocks underfoot were slippery and loose, and it was much harder going down than it had been climbing up; but he didn’t falter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Vu slices it into slippery strips and stews it with seaweed and the magic sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The interior of the car is black, the leather seats cool and slippery. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We pulled and grabbed at kids as they made their way up the slippery incline to the top. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was broken, when my record finally fell, it had nothing to do with a lucky heave or a slippery surface. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if I have to choose between the two, the Summa proof is stronger. The other’s a bit slippery for my taste. Rather convenient.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Thankfully, he stops pretty fast because he wants a go on the slippery dip. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Howard teetered on the slippery rocks and I was sure he was going to fall in any minute, but he didn’t. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In dazed wonder, I stood in front of the box, holding my face close to the rabbit’s, running my fingers over the slippery glass, vaguely hearing Mamita’s far-off voice saying my name. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, using only his elbows, he squirmed and crawled his way over the slippery rocks and up onto the grassy ground above the tide line. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When he returned he would bring back gifts: slippery, shiny silks, or thick woolen tweeds, or toy dolls made of pale, cold porcelain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m amazed that I don’t fall on my face since the grass and the fallen leaves are so slippery. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z That morning, like every morning, he had hitched up his trousers with a yard of baling twine, which is smooth and slippery, and needs a horseman’s knot to stay in place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My hands are so slippery and shaky, I have to tear the bag open with my teeth. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Harry, who did not feel as sanguine as he had pretended when reassuring Hermione, was glad to reach the gate and the slippery pavement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The planks were slippery, and it felt like at any moment the whole thing might just fall apart and leave them to sink beneath the surface. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They have their trays lowered and are drinking tea and playing Snap, fumbling the slippery cards, laughing like cars on gravel when they cheat or make mistakes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My hand grows fatigued, my fingers slippery with sweat, and I drop the pin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We left it on so long that the brown grass turned into a big slippery puddle and I wondered if the governor himself might come and tell us off. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The walk was kilometers long and the ice was slippery. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Kira drifted into sleep, the words gliding slippery from her thoughts. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a very appealing way—the bars looked slippery, and the water below was so terribly fast. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Doing something, even carrying big, awkward piles of slippery reeds, was better than doing nothing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “They seem too slippery for good posture in the seated position.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So the rock walls were damp and slippery. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For a few moments, Peeta and I take in the scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He’s in front of his cabin in the shade of the big slippery elm tree, contemplating a twisted limb. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She dips in two fingers, digs up a wet, soft, slippery thing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He groped behind him and she forced the bundle of slippery cloth into his free hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z To the touch, the crocus sometimes felt soft: and slippery, like the flesh of a worm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My grip on the lute case was slippery from my sweating palms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Purplish-gray clouds hung low over the castle and a constant fall of chilly rain made the lawns slippery and muddy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I know she took stuff from him because Mrs. Manfred would die before she bought slippery underwear or silk stockings for Dorcas. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked his footing deliberately along the slippery bottom, working his way upstream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But his fingers were stiff and slippery; his heart was in his mouth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The nerves are tough and slippery and resist the knife. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She tumbles onto the slippery floor and instantly vanishes from sight. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z People said that she tanned hides so soft that they felt to the skin like the slippery velvet that the traders sold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We cling to each other and the slippery rubber. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The surface feels cold and slippery, the tiny droplets of water in the air condensing onto the glass. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence gathered its skirts and slid, like Spider Woman, up the slippery bathroom wall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The paving stones were cracked and uneven, slippery underfoot, and rough against her soft feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was cold and slippery to the touch. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Buddy perched opposite us on the edge of a slippery armchair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I gnawed on the meat around the pig’s feet and sucked the bones until the salty, slippery membrane slid out and swished around my tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z On either leg she could hop up onto a rock slippery with damp moss and stand balanced there with the other tucked up like a waterbird. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The silk sheets were cool and slippery beneath her, and when she shifted, her skin slid across them with a whispering noise that sounded abnormally loud in the hush of her chamber. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Mully, help Clydas back to his chambers. The night is dark, and the paths will be slippery with snow. Satin, go with them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The monsters always tried to apologize when they were caught, using the same slippery words that had worked for them before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We threw our bodies on the slippery tiles, gliding fast until we hit the wall. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She felt like she was struggling in the embrace of a slippery, suffocating beast, and for a moment it pulled her down below. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He went into the old man’s field to look at the melons, all round and full of slippery sinews of wet seeds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Dress sleeves are rolled up, ponytails tightened, and with squeals of delight, the Amazons—as they’ve christened themselves—step out on the slippery evening grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocks were cold and smooth and slippery under his feet arid the water lapped up to his knees, but Turner hardly noticed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As she tipped the denim bag on its side, the silky, slippery pages of a dozen magazines fell out onto the tiled bathroom floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He was suddenly hollow; his fingers loosened and fell from the reins, slippery with sweat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His foot slipped and for a moment he dangled above the distant deck with nothing but his slippery palms clinging to the ropes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I tried to rise and fell down again, my hands slippery with sweat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They taste like a very sweet banana, are earthy and a little slippery. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the column of soldiers and horses poured down the slippery slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Regardless of the weather, the expedition rode mules and marched for over sixteen hours a day, sometimes through sheets of rain and slippery mud, sometimes under the baking sun. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z His skin is slippery with water and he smells like sweat and my shirt sticks to his arms when he slides them around me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A “smooth” strain possessed a slippery, sugary coat on the cell surface and could escape the immune system with newtlike deftness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Snow brushed over the tips of every peak up in the San Gabriels, but down on the track there was only rain and slippery mud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cliff rose in front of me and though the rocks were slippery with sea moss I found a hold for a hand and then a foot. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Mullet Fingers was fleet and slippery while Dana was sluggish and sore-footed, still not fully recovered from his encounter with the rattraps. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blast, he’s as slippery as a greased pig.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He did not watch the process, but surveyed the ceiling as my fingers, slippery now with his gore, worked to tighten the tourniquet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “It was more like skating. It’s really getting slippery out there.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The water was warm and slimy, and the bottom was slippery. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s scared and slippery as I wait for something to happen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But for the most part, these traces were obliterated, with the hedges running wild and native trees—slippery elm and tamarack—outnumbering the quince and Japanese maple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His hands were slippery on the rounded wood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At first there was only smooth, slippery rock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We swam in the pool and took turns going down the slide in a long train we made by holding on to one another’s slippery shoulders. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He picked up his bucket and his jars and his crowbar and went slowly over the slippery rocks back toward the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ess was moving too quickly, like a fish herself, slippery. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Clinging to the walls of that slippery shower, I felt a heart beat inside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was a large frame house, with miles of slippery wood floor, a kitchen clad in stainless steel so shiny it burned, a living room with a fireplace and giant TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Malaria and sleeping sickness are even more slippery customers in their ability rapidly to change their antigens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Honey. If you can get hold of any slippery elm powder, add a bit of that as well. But a spoonful of honey should help on its own,” I say. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Time was a tricky thing—as slippery as mud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He had a potbelly and slicked-back, greasy hair that matched his slippery ways. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z But before you could wrap your fingers around the slippery glass, I accidentally let go. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the maze Brinker’s sense of generalship disappeared, and he too became as slippery as an Arab, as intriguing as a eunuch. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A shape moves along the sidewalk behind us, slippery in my periphery. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She could feel the Ebola blood through her gloves: it felt wet and slippery, even though her hands were clean and dry and dusted with baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The hilt of my scim drips with it, making it slippery beneath my hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He would never master the Second’s eerie stalking silence, and he could hear his shallow breaths and the slippery shifting of his feet in the vaulted stone hallways. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was metal and slippery but was braced with steel bands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The jack handle was slippery with greasy mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Klauson bought a slippery teal convertible even though it was fall in Montana. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Calder reached down and grabbed a danger: slippery when wet sign that had been left by the door and padded it with a stack of university newspapers. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The front steps of the building are slippery, and Bobbie and Clay carefully carry me down to the sidewalk where I used to play hopscotch in the old days. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It looked incongruous, floating there in the water, so odd in its shape compared to the sleek, slippery design of fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His feet met something squashy and slippery on the floor and he stumbled: There were two bodies lying there, lying facedown in a pool of blood, but there was no time to investigate. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Jenna asks, panting with the effort to keep her footing on the slippery slope. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Saturday I would practice on the “slippery table”; Sunday I saved for my family. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands felt slippery on the steering wheel, and he felt as if every curve in the road were slowing him down and he might never reach the place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “They ambushed me. Took my glasses. Threw me in the pool. They were gone by the time I got out, but it was slippery and I fell back in. Now you’re here. The end.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She let her fingers move gently in the water, and the fish glided in between them and held itself there with lazy motions of its tail while she very delicately stroked its slippery sides. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The slippery, light green leaves had fibrous stalks that did not become tender from cooking and so had to be carefully plucked out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Her fingers were slippery with blood, but she would not let go of the dagger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When they had struggled to the bottom of the bank, they found a stream running down from the hills behind in a deeply dug bed with steep slippery sides overhung with brambles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The “slippery table” was only telling me part of the story. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll try a slice of peach,” she said, and gingerly picked out a slippery pink-orange furry slice with her long fingers. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Both were very hungry and they stopped talking in order to concentrate on the slippery wet food. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheets of rain come down, making the ground slippery. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I then filled in all these holes with pebbles and along this path laid down long strips of kelp, making a slippery bed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The stone steps are slippery with morning drizzle as we begin the tedious climb up to the front door of Central Fligh School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those fish were slippery and desperate, and I was just plain desperate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t know a word. I’m very stupid about studying anything, can’t bear French, it’s such a slippery, silly sort of language,” was the brusque reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s real slippery,” I told Peach once I had worked my way onto Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Fat drops of rain start to fall, making each isle slippery and harder to stand on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a big pond and it didn’t take us long to clear it all, and after we shoveled, the ice beneath was smooth and slippery and light green and white. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A heavy rain was hitting the streets, making everything gray and slippery. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I used to practice during the week in the simulator and in the zero G airplane, but I saved Saturday morning for the “slippery table.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven screamed as Thorn scrambled for purchase on a slippery rock. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The world of plants is a slippery slope. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The rain has turned the metal into a slippery slope—and I almost slide off during my landing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If your pointe shoes are too slippery or satiny, you can walk over to the trays, step into them, and grind the resin dust into the smooth fabric. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When I offered Rich a fork, he insisted on using the slippery ivory chopsticks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod pulled the jacket up over his head, and clambered up the slippery paths to the top of the hill, to the Frobisher mausoleum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z How Jack and Connor cheered me on as I dug in with my bare hands, clenching my teeth against the cold as I gripped its slippery shell. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I grip Alan and the slippery sides of our leaking craft. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The gray clay was slippery, and it stuck to the soles of his boots. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Grass grows over the rails, making them slippery. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As they drove up the hill Mother always called “the great slippery” because of that first time they were stuck on it, Joe suddenly said something wonderful to Marly. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The base of the cliff was large boulders, some of them slippery with damp moss on their shadowed sides. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We promptly began picking them up, but beans are so small and slippery that they roll into every conceivable corner and hole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We all did, and the air seemed slippery and cool as it blew on your hand. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Luna didn’t have very many memories that were as tenacious as this one—her memory, typically, was a slippery thing, and difficult to pin down—and so she hung on to it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We took the three slippery mangoes, taking weak bites, sucking on them like little babies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We put pepper in the feet of our stockings, Vaseline on our faces, and stared through dark icebox mornings at four stewed prunes, slippery lumps of oatmeal, and cocoa with a roof of skin. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced between them struggling for the connection, something to close the distance between the silent staring child and the slippery crazy words. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Negotiating optimistically the steep, slippery slopes of life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z George moves more quickly than Axel has ever seen before, through the gate, down the walkway, even on the uneven stones, even over the slippery leaves on the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But my body was slippery and he was too drunk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to scramble up the slippery rocks in the direction of the bark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He climbed to the place over the slippery rocks, held himself firmly, and gently reached down and parted the brown algae. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes games are left out on the floor, with slippery cards on smooth linoleum. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The floor was one big pit, ringed by a slippery stone walkway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I stood tall, only just maintaining my balance with my sneakers on the slippery mossy log. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She looked at the partygoers moving with her up the slippery stairs and through the cleft between the dragon’s tail and mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The jar is cold and wet and slippery, so it falls away from me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Deep into wet pits of clay, into sticky ditches, up slippery slopes I would struggle with the pail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads were slippery on our way upstate and our car flew into the Hudson River. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z With the string in both hands, but still fastened to my wrist, I braced my feet on the slippery rock and leaned backwards. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her movements were slippery and slow, as though she was moving in a dream. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “No doubt about it, Colonel, this floor is slippery as hell,” Cecil replied. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mesmerized when she said things like “slippery slope,” which, behind her lips, exposed the underside of her tongue. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The snow here had become impacted: It was hard and slippery where people had trodden on it all day. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I apologize and do what she asks while she struggles to open a slippery bottle of cold Chardonnay. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The gutters run with brownish water; the wooden bridge over the ravine is slippery and soft and has regained its smell of rot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Huddled down in the water between the ferns and moss, I scrubbed myself with the bark of the slippery elm. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so slippery he lost his balance. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The packet was wrapped in slippery, greenish material and bound up with a strap. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They were both laughing, and then the laughter stilled, gave way to a new, strange graveness, a slippery joining. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was wet and slippery even inside the cabin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Of course ‘made to work’ is a slippery concept: plenty of alchemists thought they had seen base metal turn into gold, and plenty of doctors thought they had cured their patients through bloodletting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He chewed the jerky as carefully as the mare chewed the grass, pushing against cords of gristle with his tongue, feeling the slippery fibers give way between his teeth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was weak and his hands were slippery with sweat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Tales are slippery, her mother had often said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had bashed his leg against the slippery, sharp rocks. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Wait. It’s slippery. Our shoes will slide,” shouted the shoemaker. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I remember the slippery streets after the hail storm. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The trees were swathed in morning mist and the fallen leaves were damp and slippery underfoot. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Her hard-baked shoes were slippery, and her sodden knapsack seemed to weigh a ton. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the meantime, while I watch the thin, beautiful mestizos living glamorous lives on TV, and the fat, ugly indigenas serving them, I try hard, very hard, to hang on to Jose’s slippery words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I pick it up and pop it into my mouth, but it jumps out again, as if it’s being controlled by a string and not just fumbled by my slippery fingers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Let us pray and cover the roads with the blood of Jesus,” she had said, and he replied that the roads would be safer, less slippery, if not covered with blood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mosca had asked him how they used them with their slippery fishtails. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The tile was slippery, and I swung my legs around, trying to squirm away. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the churning water shouted: “Go, Buck! Go!” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s forbidden and dangerous; also it’s dark and the hillside will be slippery, I might have trouble climbing up again. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They pull ashore and touch soft, slippery mud. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She arrived, changing out her too-tight shoes for the slippery house shoes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It contained perhaps forty gravestones and was surrounded by a knee-high stone wall covered in slippery moss. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll get it open. I brought along a few tools—burglar’s tools, you might say—in my back pack. Should I climb up the stand? No. It looks slippery. I think I’ll try the curtain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He dipped his head and drank and then jumped to a rock, slippery with moss but stable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s slippery. What would happen if we fell in?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I seize up a sleeping man, tear at him hungrily, bite through his bone-locks and suck hot, slippery blood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Another couple dozen frogs, paid for by me and Stan, exploded under us before we skidded to a slippery stop. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I felt it, slippery and shimmery inside the shell of my body, trying to slide out through the top of my head. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Weary and scared, Lyra began to stumble over the harsh and slippery rocks, following the bear, wondering how she could talk her way out of this. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He skidded around the corner, his trainers slippery with blood; Snape had an immense head start. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He scrambled down the slippery bank to the place where a boulder, large enough to stand on, jutted out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Then they would flop on their stomachs and toboggan across the slippery ice. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Around one o’clock the door opens and, with a burst of color and noise and raindrops, the boys tumble in and throw their slippery arms around me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Track batons are slippery, especially if your palms are itchy when you’re trying to grab one. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Feeling more cheerful, Ralph began to jump around in the slippery pocket. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They hadn't liked that, and neither had her arm, but she'd needed the other to drag the toddlers: their two little hands gripped in her one, slick and slippery with sweat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They went with the pot roast done in the pressure cooker along with the limp carrots and the flaccid potatoes and the onions with their slippery layers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They slid from one wet icy rock to another, resting briefly on thin ledges, then continuing the slippery descent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeled it away and salted the damp, slippery white surface of the egg. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sandbars to the sea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No. I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He proceeded on foot, the ground gritty and slippery to his steps, the low gravity causing him difficulty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This slippery word—meaning “alone,” “solely,” or “and no other”—can be found almost anywhere in a sentence, even where it doesn’t belong. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, once you start giving things away for free it’s a slippery slope. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And I finally dropped one bag after the other when my hands began to bleed and became too slippery to hold onto anything. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A seed like a fish eye, slippery shiny black. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The stairs went on forever—narrow, steep, and slippery. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z For my twin sister’s name I prefer the spelling Lee, as that makes her—from the back-court position from which I generally watch her—the slippery length of muscle that she is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A nurse offers to fold up the sari but, exasperated by the six slippery yards, ends up stuffing the material into Ashima’s slate blue suitcase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In Doon’s box were dozens of small packets wrapped in a slippery material. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was no path here, the slope was steep and slippery with gravel, and Kate—unlike her pursuers—was dragging a ladder and carrying someone on her back. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There were lots of handholds and steps and the sandy rock was quite firm, not at all slippery. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In this exceedingly slippery situation, citizens who suffered direct financial loss from damage to apple orchards or bees discovered that there was no one to sue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cole knelt on the slippery rocks and drank until the chalky dryness left his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She rubbed the water into our scalps, behind our ears, under our arms, then sent us to chase one another in the slippery mud. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The road under their feet was slippery with spring mud, and the grass that brushed against their legs was wet with dew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was slippery and narrow, with nothing to hold on to along the sides. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They came to a foul-smelling stream and crossed it by a slippery, primitive bridge of logs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With one slippery hand and his teeth, Nailer managed to open the plastic bottle and drink while he clung to the wall. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The path around the island was slippery, but their feet were used to walking in mud. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z This was much the same: the fragile skin, the soothing water, the gentle motion of his hand, slippery with soap. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z If you taste something that’s not quite as slippery as Miracle Whip but more slippery than Whitney’s vanilla yogurt, then, you might give it a 10. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I try to climb it, but it’s covered in slippery algae. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She’d ripped off the sleeves of her T-shirt and used the cloth to wrap her bloody palms, but her fingers were still slippery and weak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As Douglas suspected, the Court in Terry had begun its slide down a very slippery slope. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The steps to the back alley were slippery with vomit and he grabbed her elbow to steady her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He scrabbled for a grip on the slippery hull. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The rocks were for the most part flat and smooth but slippery. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I was three and a half years old and remember lying on the backseat watching slippery raindrops making patterns as they plopped down the car’s windows. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It looked like a boxing ring, but I called it the “slippery table,” because the metal floor was built to be as slick as possible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The rats were satisfied that both foxes were dead, and if they were not, well, who was going to climb down through all of those stinging nettles into the slippery ooze to find out? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It made the floor slippery, and he went down. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain three days before has left the field wet and slippery with mud, making it difficult for the villagers to keep their balance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This arm that never held itself out, extended from my body, to give me balance as I walked thin rails or logs, round and slippery with danger. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The white socks, the Mary Janes, the always-inadequate birthday present swathed in tissue paper, and the little girls with their assessing eyes, their slippery deceitful smiles, tartaned up like Lady Macbeth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The ice outside had made the ground too slippery for horses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I journey into night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She thrust her arms above her head again and then eased herself down the hill, one slippery step at a time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The creature’s skin felt slippery, as if it had been covered in jelly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The slippery grass in the water sways back and forth to the rhythm of our movements, gently brushing against my legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was small, but crafty, with darting eyes and slippery hands. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a slippery man, and his Black Chamber was a shady operation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A car heading into the slippery curve a tad too fast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Perhaps he glances around, and then you see that his lips are smeared with something slippery and red, mixed with black specks, as if he has been chewing coffee grounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem fair that he could remember that so well, when so many of his other memories felt so slippery. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly the boy with red hair lost his footing on the slippery bank and tumbled into the churning river. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On either side of the slippery path to the church doors, the snow lay deep and untouched. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He fell, when drunk, on the slippery cobblestones of Revenue Street, and broke his hip. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The shore surrounding the ice moat was little more than a slender, slippery rind of white stone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They were too young, with their soft, slippery little-kid tongues, lacking the hard consonants they needed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The ice seemed stable, covered with a fine carpet of snow so that it wasn’t too slippery. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The purplish ground was slippery and constantly pulsing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To Ralph’s horror, he found himself placed in a slippery glass bowl. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Underneath, the soil was very wet and slippery, after the rain. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Shadow took the hearse up to ten miles per hour, which seemed enough on the slippery roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Her lips go light green right about the time her boys go charging down to the slippery dip. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Trapped, he sat in a slippery vinyl chair under Principal Hornstein’s probing gaze. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In most adversarial situations, to prove your own case is to disprove your opponent’s—though rhetoric being as slippery as it is, the task is seldom precisely symmetrical. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The ground was sodden and slippery, equal parts mud and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sweat from my hands makes them slippery, but I hold on like my life depends on it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The rain might have stopped, but the compound was still a morass of shallow lakes and slippery mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But he was so weak, and the sides of the canal were so slippery. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the rain had made the going hard and slippery. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They were forced by the soldiers to scramble down the high gravel embankment, and the slippery stones slid away underfoot. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We were all wet and slippery and hard to hold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sure-footed on the slippery rocks and he loved the hunt. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a kid, he lost his footing on the slippery dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Six levels to climb in the dark with her hands slippery from sweat and the fires of hell burning below, with the rope weighing her down and no net to catch her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She started to climb off the rock, awkwardly, but the ice had nude it slippery and her foot went out from under her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Local legend had it you couldn’t take three paces without stepping on broken glass, dog poo, or a rusty piece of the pool’s slippery metal slide that had flaked away. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When Mango finally made his way down that tree, sliding on the slippery bark, he was scared and shivering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Frankie, trying to hold on to the struggling dog, lost his footing and fell backwards in the slippery snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But other books, they were as slippery as marbles in butter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, slippery as a yolk, I dive headfirst into the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But it was heavy, and with the zebra’s haunches being higher than its belly—and blood being slippery—the hyena started to slide into its victim. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Roman, Andrew, and I stay up well past midnight, trying to make sense of McCandless’s life and death, yet his essence re-mains slippery, vague, elusive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so slippery, so worthless, that my anger died. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned in its direction and scrambled up the difficult slippery rocks, sliding back at each step almost as far as they’d gone forward. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She preferred wooden chopsticks, she’d said, the ivory ones were too slippery. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Pong knelt on the slippery wood boards, heaving and shaking. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I thought it would of been slippery, but my foot went in about ankle deep and I didn’t slide none at all. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed my palm down on his forehead and it was almost slippery, like a well-polished mask. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He stumbled on the slippery planking and, as he sat up, found Fiver beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked their steps away from the skirts of the cliff, among a wilderness of boulders and rough stones, wet and slippery with the heavy rain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Melissa dipped her finger into the slippery, shiny substance and traced her lips. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Just as he examined the underwear she hung in the bathroom—black slips, slippery bras, white pants. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The rain made the wood slippery and the ground muddy. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The Fowl boy was indeed a slippery opponent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The room slowly turns around us, the ledge still slippery, the wall of water shining white with the sun. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Ophie sank down into a curtsy, tricky with the heavy tray and the slippery shoes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Yet the pavement was wet and slippery, and what few people there were were in a hurry. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I blinked away slippery tears and tried to force my spine rigid, but that made me tremble even more. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z My right hand had become wet and slippery on the knife. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Too late I realized I’d jumped to the inn’s roof—no wood shingles here, but clay tiles slippery with rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly Erin’s lips are on mine and my mouth is all hot and slippery. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The punt cord had been drenched through with rain, pliant, slippery and fibrous. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Frank suddenly became aware that the hand gripping his walking stick was slippery with sweat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Going up the road toward home the road was smooth and slippery for a while and the ice orange from the horses until the wood-hauling track turned off. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Boxes filled with fruit and vegetables had torn, and their contents had spilled and broken into slippery messes on the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Several times he cut himself prying his knife against the slippery wood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But here, in the slippery, potholed dermis of our planet, the boys move like fully adapted insects — nimble, flexible, flowing — while I lurch about like, well, a 52-year-old dad in need of a yoga routine. Under the Shenandoah Mountains, a West Virginia caving adventure 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Then that thought of the hot, slippery sex we’d been talking about is a million miles from the room. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z A stripped-down, socially conscious drama set in the slippery world of human trafficking, Yan Vizinberg’s “Cargo” is commendably free of cheap emotional manipulation. | 'Cargo': Yan Vizinberg?s ?Cargo,? With Natasha Rinis ? Review 2011-10-21T00:23:52Z I had also noticed that Bobby Schindler was billing himself as a “disability rights” activist, using the slippery slope argument to show that the “threat” to one minority group automatically meant a threat to all. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Two writers who have lived the expat life in Venice view your slippery presence in this fragile city as tantamount to a crime. Books: Portraits on the Page of Paris, London and Venice 2014-04-17T17:20:24Z But for more than 50 years, they have conjured a slippery blend of early R&B, hardcore country, novelty songs and rockabilly by seizing the improvisational energy of jazz. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Our new research, recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, examined a slippery way by which people get away from facts that contradict their beliefs. Facts do not matter: The depressing science that explains vaccine trutherism 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Adding to the challenge, “we’re dealing with a floor that is not real wood,” he said, making for a slippery surface for tapping. Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Workum bases her choreography on the improvisational practice known as authentic movement, in which the mind and the body work in tandem — slippery as it sounds — to delve into deep states of kinesthetic awareness. Review: Katie Workum Presents ‘Black Lakes’ at Danspace Project 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Amazing story about what went down via @guardian: "It’s wholly turbulent yet far from barbaric: despite the slippery carpet below, it is a politely non-jostling, giddily absurd melee of bodies." Why Popular Culture Is Still So Obsessed With Vampires 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Douglas is a charming and slippery actor who specializes, naturally enough, in impersonating charming and slippery men. | 'Solitary Man': Michael Douglas Tries on Another Slippery Skin 2010-05-20T23:53:00Z “If you start monetizing the value of the art on the walls, it raises a whole host of problems and leads to a slippery slope,” Laurence Eisenstein, a leading critic, said. A Baltimore museum tried to raise money by selling three pricey artworks. It backfired stupendously. 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s slippery and ornate, dealing with its sometimes heavy subject matter with a strange, often sly sense of humor. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z It laments how easy it is for poems and readers to “miss each other” — no matter how slippery the exchange becomes, a longing to connect remains. Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But time is a slippery business for reptiles that never seem to grow old. 'The White Snake' at Old Globe is a sprightly fable of attraction 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z And “Starcatcher,” like “Jackson,” walks a slippery tightrope between flippancy and highly charged sincerity without losing its balance. | 'Peter and the Starcatcher': Peter Pan (the Early Years), With Bounding Main and All 2011-03-10T03:30:25Z But as the season progresses, Joseph discovers that being on a team is more than just running in tiny, slippery uniforms. A Back-to-School Book List for the Ages 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “Power Ranger,” by Mr. Douglas, put a funk groove on slippery footing, with absolutely valiant work by Ms. Oh and a suspenseful, unhurried solo by Mr. Baron. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z The fallout added another chapter to the slippery debate over fiction versus nonfiction. Books of The Times: Alexander Maksik’s New Novel, ‘A Marker to Measure Drift’ 2013-08-22T19:58:56Z On the appeal of the iPhone: "Would you line up around the corner if it was called 'The slippery germ brick?'" New Girl: move over Jess, Schmidt is the real star 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z It's not that we all don't want to look and feel good, but it's a slippery slope. "Body Parts" examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z SAT Learn about marine creatures and plants at low tide, wear shoes that can get wet and suitable for slippery surfaces, 12:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-06-21T01:23:04Z The chronology is slippery, and the depiction of Iraqis is unlikely to win any citations for sensitivity. Oscars 2015: A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis Discuss the Contenders 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But New York isn’t a popular market for swimwear production, meaning there are fewer specialized sewers there who know how to work with fabric that is smaller, stretchier and more slippery than, say, denim. What Makes a Bathing Suit So Expensive? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z I won’t give away this delicious twist, but it’s a testament to the film’s keen understanding of desire as something powerful yet slippery, eluding us even as it brings out our truest selves. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Comedy often depends on ethically slippery manipulation, misleading setups and disorienting punch lines. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “J” keeps the comedian’s slippery dexterity and jettisons the humor. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future A slippery sax interlude tells you when hot, steamy sex is about to happen, even if you don’t actually see it. Review: Blade Runner 2049 Is Visually Stunning and Excessively Faithful to the Original 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z "Pardon the pun, but ice fandom is a slippery slope." A frozen water expert sheds light on Starbucks' pellet ice transition 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The overture begins with haunting bells and slippery melodies whose glissandos render them distant memories of unplaceable tunes. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The narrow trail can be rocky and slippery. Quiet hikes and undiscovered cabins at Washington’s favorite state park 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The family set-up, Molly says, was built on deceit: her dad was secretive, mysterious, slippery, impossible to pin down. My dad, the bank robber: ‘He never told the truth’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Art Angels” is a slippery thing that pulses with malice and misery and weirdness and doubt; it contains multitudes. Grimes wages battle with herself on the wild and wonderful ‘Art Angels’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The choreographer Luciana Achugar, whose experiments have long involved such slippery questions, has for years explored what a utopian theater might look like in her contemporary dance works. Review: Sensation and Skin, in a Theater Housed in Bodies 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Forget those slippery wisps of silk that claim to be masks. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020 A slippery language of compromise allows the mind to use them while doubting them at the same time, with phrases such as “one informs the other” and both “interpenetrate.” It’s easy to overthink Picasso 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Living in LA is already a slippery slope to be negotiating for anyone trying to retain some form of sanity. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z His style is a mix of choppy footwork, one-arm balances and slippery dives, all delivered with a manner that's part hip-hop homeboy, part music hall comic. Flash Mob – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-17T14:31:32Z Illusion, a slippery story of love, is at the Brighton Dome on the eve of Valentine's Day before it moves to the North Wall in Oxford next Friday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z The creature likes to get high on “gas bubbles” and stare beseechingly into Will’s eyes while stroking his face with a slippery tentacle. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z I see myself writing more in the American tradition of writers like Denis Johnson or George Saunders or Karen Russell who experiment with a kind of slippery realism. The vapor between languages: Idra Novey on writing and translation 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But they aren’t much of a match for the rationalization, self-deception, fatigue and slippery ethics that Mr. Ariely links to the lying game. Books of The Times: ‘The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty’ by Dan Ariely 2012-06-28T19:44:45Z But authenticity is a slippery topic to raise in this discussion. Critic?s Notebook: McCartney at the Plate 2011-07-14T22:39:33Z Downey is too convincing of an actor to not possess a mildly slippery quality. Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t just made it all the way back, he’s made it all the way to the top And as I left, reluctantly, just after 2:30 in the morning, there was the alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, addressing a slippery arrangement of “Cantaloupe Island.” Music Review: Honoring Herbie Hancock?s 70th, at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-26T00:35:00Z In SA, things are defined differently— it’s more of a “slippery slope” mentality. The lie detector test that saved my marriage 2013-01-02T22:01:00Z “The one thing I didn’t count on was that there were going to be real grapes. They’re actually really slippery, just so you know.” How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Niall Jones is a rather more slippery creature, as performer and choreographer. Dance Review: Danspace Project?s Parallels Series at St. Mark?s Church 2012-02-25T00:10:17Z It is not as tough as some of the others on this list, but Mount Pilchuck is rocky and can be slippery, so be prepared for varying conditions. Sky’s the limit for the best hiking workout with views 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The elk leader struggled to find a path to the top, trying this route and that before sliding down the slippery scree. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Darrell D'Silva has also enriched his portrait of Mark Antony as a beefy boozer by suggesting that he actively relishes the slippery rhetoric by which he manages to win over the Roman people. Julius Caesar ? review 2011-01-11T21:30:00Z In that sense, it is typical Adès: referential, if not reverential, and slippery. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z There is little that is pleasurable about Chuck, who stands out as the prime target of viewer scorn on a show full of slippery lawyers and murderous drug dealers. Need a Bad Brother? Better Call Michael McKean 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Finally, forget those slippery plastic drop cloths you see in the bargain aisle at the hardware store. How to make that DIY paint job look more professional 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z From the wok emerge slippery, smoky, locally produced chow fun noodles from the Florida Avenue Market. Maketto review: The H Street hangout looks, acts and tastes like a party 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Two films about filmmakers navigating the slippery boundaries between life and art. The New York Film Festival Is Back, and Our Critics Have Favorites 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z This false, slippery narration, which the reader is called upon to interpret as self-deception, damns the 21st century flâneur. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Its golden curry is thick with slippery noodles and pieces of chicken, both of which swell with the flavor of the curry. Review | Sisters Thai in Potomac reminds us that food isn’t everything 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The result is a nimble, slippery ease, entirely his own. Scuff, Patter, Chug, Poke, Swim: Expanding Definitions of Dance 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “I want to check the kitchen is conducive, that it’s safe, that the floors aren’t slippery.” Wash, clean, scrub: Can Jay Rayner hack life as a kitchen porter? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z “There’s a slippery line between what is staging and what is writing in this,” Ms. Chavkin, 34, said. In Bess Wohl’s ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z James Perkins's design conjures both urban wastelands and Grace's bedroom, perched like a tower in a fairytale kingdom, and there is no shirking of the suggestion that truth is slippery and sometimes treacherous. Liar, Liar – review 2013-02-18T17:43:11Z In both books, she plays with genre in a slippery but propulsive way, fusing together fantasy, crime fiction and a hint of social critique. A serial killer haunts Lauren Beukes' riveting 'Broken Monsters' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The label also provides a slippery subject for criticism. Are You Missing Out on the Metaverse? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z He notes how memory is slippery and friable. Chasing Down a Decades-Old Family Tragedy 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z At Wistariahurst — a historic house museum here — a small playing area and slippery parquet floors made even a blunted weapon a menace. 3 Days in a Van With a Shakespeare Troupe: Daggers and Dunkin’ Donuts 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But sometimes the line between indictment and incitement is thin and slippery. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z That means going with the flow of a globe-crossing plot that is as twisty and slippery as a …. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The change is unfortunate, and perhaps the beginning of a slippery slope of self-editing. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “Vexations” is a highly slippery piece: When I went to the bathroom, I noticed I couldn’t remember its singsong melody. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z While this thinly fictionalised examination of journalistic ethics recognises that truth is slippery, it never makes for gripping theatre, and sits uncomfortably in its chosen form. Gibraltar – review 2013-04-01T14:34:36Z SUN Walk to see marine life at low tide, wear shoes for wet, slippery surfaces, 10:15 a.m. Community calendar 2012-05-02T22:49:07Z “It’s a very slippery slope when you start to criticize,” said Leslie Bennetts, who profiled celebrities for Vanity Fair through 2010. ‘Reading the story today makes me cringe’: Female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z "There was a festival we did a couple of years ago and the stage was a bit slippery," she laughs. The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z You are usually standing in a slippery dangerous tub or in a tiny stall where you cannot move out of the water stream. Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z There is also the question of how to eat these slippery customers. Oysters: food of the gods or the devil’s own delicacy? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But allowing a person some measure of authority over their own depiction on film sets a director on a slippery slope that ends with pleasing the talent instead of challenging the audience. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Memory may seem to be a guarantor of memoir's authenticity, but when pressed into service for a more general kind of food history, it can be become as slippery as an eel. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z What raises this production above the level of civic-obligation theatergoing is Josh Collins’s gorgeously slippery star turn, in his American stage debut. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z I find that a very scary, slippery slope. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Or does this push us further down the slippery slope of alternative facts on which we are currently sliding? The Biggest Fake News in Fashion 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The aesthetic direction of those groups — choreography with slippery swirls and hollow gestures — wasn’t something I pined for. Review: Reimagined Gibney Company Makes a Long-Winded Debut 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But it’s a slippery slope from trying to eat right to developing an eating disorder. Orthorexia: when healthy eating turns against you 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Durning plays the slippery Texan governor who must decide whether to close down the establishment. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z Our guide, Harm Jan Wilbrink, warned us that the stone embankment leading to the sprawling mud flats might be slippery. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We spoke to Kurzweil from his home in Rhode Island about the pain of digging into the past, the slippery quality of personal memory, and the sweet taste of revenge. I spent 40 years looking for the kid who bullied me: “I think we do carry those childhood injustices with us” 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z While the film tackles an admittedly slippery contemporary moment, its grasp is weakened by divided attentions and unwieldy approaches. ‘Caught in the Web’: a tangled tale of cyberbullying in China 2013-12-05T20:16:20Z “Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless and so slippery and elusive to the grasp,” Twain fumed in his 1880 European travelogue “A Tramp Abroad.” Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Lancaster Dodd could have been a familiar type: a charming, slippery, charlatan. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z Slickers or slickies or slippery dumplings, it doesn’t matter what you call them: The star component is a hybrid of thick noodle and flat dumpling. Delmarva’s slippery dumplings are right at home in a soupy bowl of chicken 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It is that rarest of beasts: a slippery, cerebral summer blockbuster that slaloms from illusion to reality and back again and leaves its viewer bewitched, bothered and bewildered. Film review: Inception 2010-07-09T23:17:00Z Robin, meanwhile, is a slippery orphan, desperately poor but as adept with technology as any tween in the West. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway But, even if the play is slippery, it lives theatrically through Walsh's astonishing way with words. Penelope 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z The slippery ribbons are luscious on their own but grow transcendent after a swipe through the fiery, grass-green curry pooled on their plate. New in New York: 3 restaurants with flash, flair and flavor. 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z With the slippery, bendable qualities of English, the evolution of comedy from physical to verbal was a much smoother transition in Britain than in Germany. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z While he was a teenager, he became a sideman in his uncle’s bands, learning, he said, to read the slippery mood of a drunken crowd. Pop: Glen Hansard, Touring Behind His ‘Rhythm and Repose’ 2012-06-22T16:00:01Z Lockdown drinking is a slippery slope because heavier drinking causes adaptations in the brain that create greater deficits in emotional regulation, Chester said. Quarantinis are a meme of this crisis. But relying on alcohol could lead to serious problems. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z It's a handy metaphor for stardom, and for the slippery surfaces Taylor knew her entire life. Taylor a star in every phase 2011-03-23T17:22:00Z Steve Coleman, an alto saxophonist and composer given to complex systems, has honed his flagship band like a steel blade, and here was a set that capitalized on all of its flexible slippery strengths. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z The ghost of the slippery master must be smiling. The Afterlife of Willem de Kooning 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The slippery suspect in question wasn't a person, however—it was a cow. 25 animals that have been imprisoned or arrested 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Nominally about genetic cloning, Churchill’s hourlong drama moves beyond scientific inquiry to address more human issues, like sibling hatred and the slippery nature of happiness. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It smells like strawberry shortcake and is slippery, like the moments Jackson is trying to keep in his grasp. Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z It came out so easily, like a slippery baby. Jill Soloway Tells the Personal Story Behind “Transparent” 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Skying's starry-eyed, cosmic leanings are complicated by Badwan's slippery, sepulchral presence. The Horrors: Skying - review 2011-07-07T14:29:01Z It begins with what seems a disorienting call to attention: thin, reedy chords, sometimes sustained and sometimes slippery, are played in high registers by woodwinds and percussion. Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z This Bronx garden is inviting the public to spend Saturday and Sunday with some slippery characters that pass by it every spring. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Asked what their next big challenge might be, Ms. Gleich pointed to what she considered the most challenging and slippery slope of all: marriage. They’d Climb the Highest Mountain, but Not Necessarily for Each Other 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z It's not an uncommon sight at the shows, where young women strut the often slippery catwalks to thumping music on impossibly high heels, so high that the occasional tumble is all but inevitable. Heels so high, sometimes the models fall down 2012-02-08T19:01:19Z Until a recent past, this slimy, slippery, snake-shaped, incredibly agile fish inhabited virtually every body of water in Europe and Northern Africa, often in mind-blowing abundances. Eels have fascinated us for ages. Here's why we need to stop eating them 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Andrew led as we picked our way along the slippery rocks, and I clung to his solid 6-foot-4 frame for support against the gusts. Seeking refuge in the wild: Hiking in Chilean Patagonia But technology is a slippery slope for hoteliers. Luxury Hotels: Luring the Next Generation 2013-06-05T15:48:52Z Moreover, there are no specific laws protecting architecture, due to its slippery definition as a work of applied art – with functional and artistic qualities, in which only the latter is protected. Seeing double: the rise and rise of China's copycat architecture 2013-01-07T18:59:00Z “All Mine” sounds like it’s being delivered through a shower of static, and “Price of Fame” rests on a bed of resonant plinks that feel bulbous and slippery. R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Vice travels to Florida to hear from law enforcement officials, gun store owners and others who are afraid that any measure to regulate firearms will result in a slippery slope ending with an outright ban. Top 5 investigative videos: Stoned on the job 2013-04-27T18:00:00Z Much of the abstraction happened in the rhythm section, which emulated the slippery ebb and flow of the current Wayne Shorter Quartet, with enigmatic pockets of space. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z Bill Clinton conversations get slippery because, at the end of the day, feelings about his guilt or innocence, or his goodness or badness, often came down to whether a person liked him in office. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Is it all a slippery slope to some kind of Kardashian hell? Aging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In its slippery way, it neatly illustrates its owner’s philosophy for getting through life: better to stay up in the air than be stuck in a box. Possessed : Betony Vernon’s Guardian Angel 2013-08-23T20:40:03Z There was a certain wildness in her choreography, too — a slippery chaos bubbling beneath the highly refined surface — that fits with the natural world. Trisha Brown on the Beach: Catch a Wave of Dancing Bliss 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z His partner, George Macdonnell, was thought to be “one of the most slippery con men in the world.” New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Its structure closely resembles Trump’s proposed design—featuring precast reinforced concrete panels, four feet wide by twelve feet high, topped by a cast-concrete pipe rendered slippery smooth to prevent climbing. The Walls Before Trump’s Wall 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Chernick said he liked that the blood is sticky, rather than slippery, to reduce stage hazards. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z He added, “If we’re going to get into trying to personally evaluate artists in terms of their personal lives, that’s a slippery slope that we wouldn’t want to get into.” ArtsBeat: Cyber Furor Over Chris Brown's Appearance at Grammys 2012-02-15T18:22:56Z It’s the 1920s entry in Wilson’s “Decades” cycle, dealing with the legendary blues singer Rainey during a testy recording session organized by stingy, slippery white producers. Review | How August Wilson learned about life and writing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Nonfiction stories on screen, long a little traction-challenged, have become especially slippery of late. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Making his Broadway debut, DeVito was favored as a slippery furniture salesman in the revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” Tony Awards: Big winners, surprise losers and what it all means for the theater 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z And then there’s the even more slippery genre known as “relational art,” whose goal is to cast light on human interactions by triggering new ones. One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z I’ll argue that his ethical transgressions began far higher up on this slippery slope, with a much less severe conflict-of-interest infraction. Perspective | Why Chris Cuomo’s ‘family first’ defense just doesn’t fly 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Their life span will be short, slippery and sweet. Review | At this Maryland restaurant, hand-pulled noodles are the star attraction 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Day got wind of a whale hunt shortly after he and his sound recordist were rappelled 100ft down a cliff to a slippery ledge for a night to film the Faroese guga hunt. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Appalachian Trail — that is, end-to-end, rather than in sections — we were called upon to risk life and limb over treacherous mountains, slippery rock scrambles and you-name-it-infested everythings. From Georgia to Maine: What I learned on a 6-month hike along the Appalachian Trail 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z What we see as a sloppy, slurping mess is a rainbow of gravity-defying droplets, then a looped ribbon that twists around itself, next a leaping fish or a slippery mermaid. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z “Taking life in the name of compassion also invites a slippery slope toward ending the lives of people with non-terminal conditions,” the statement said. Should the terminally ill control their death? 2012-09-22T13:00:00Z The exception is “Motivation,” this album’s single, on which Ms. Rowland is appealingly slippery. New Music: KELLY ROWLAND 2011-07-25T21:45:25Z “The more of ourselves we give away, the more the more we’re sort of rewarded for it, and that’s a slippery slope,” she said. Celebrity Pregnancy Is Big Business 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Vitti opposes removing the books, warning it would lead to a "slippery slope." Children's books set in Afghanistan, Iraq challenged in Florida schools 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z I'm generally a a stickler for words and intentionality, so this all makes this inherently slippery slope even "slippier" when all of these arguments are posited. Why do some vegans eat oysters? 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z So this book’s prologue is its most slippery section. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z He knows he can be slippery, his distrust of the interview process deep and abiding. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z As any kid knows, that stuff can be very slippery. Perspective | Olympics athletes show how to be resilient. They fall, get up and try again. 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Hoover liked to weave a lot of illusions of slimy, slippery animals into his speeches at that time. film: Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood?s ?J. Edgar? 2011-11-02T12:13:02Z Over a hundred Delta Air Lines passengers experienced a slippery attempt at takeoff on Saturday, when their plane slid off the taxiway at a Wisconsin airport amid icy conditions. Delta flight slides off taxiway at Wisconsin airport amid 'icy conditions' 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z I am perched on a slippery roof ridge at the Buffalo Peaks Ranch in the rain, feet sliding on ancient asphalt shingles atop rotting plywood decking, tethered only by a rope. Lending a Library a Hand in Colorado 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Nor are the slippery psychosexual scares of “It Follows,” his breakthrough horror movie from 2015. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But it does put you on a slope as slippery as a seal slathered in vegetable oil and Vaseline. Perspective | ’Fess up: Sometimes, even you tolerate a monster for the good of the team 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z This is what makes Chappelle’s set so slippery: His storytelling and gravitas are so magnetic that you can miss how far he goes in making the old slur of a Jewish conspiracy seem reasonable. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The law on religious believers is particularly slippery. Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z A schizophrenic who believes traffic lights are talking to him isn't the only one on slippery footing. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s never a question that Bryan will leak it to the press, but his eagerness to do so suggests that he’s already on that slippery slope. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: The Miseducation of Bryan Connerty 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Trends are slippery things that consistently resist our best attempts to define them — particularly these days when any “-core” can go viral on TikTok, distorting our ability to determine what has mass popular appeal. Searching for the ‘Vibe Shift’ at Coachella 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z He is slippery on inconvenient facts and passes over issues that are too painful to confront. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z “They started winking at the audience and, in my opinion, it lost the emotional connection. It’s a slippery slope when you make the decision that you want to be emotional and raw.” Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “Our bodies are covered with a slippery green fleece; our swimsuits are filling up with algae.” Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s a slippery mission made more difficult by the fact that the agents were bringing with them their own memories of friends and family killed by the Germans. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Escape Room’ and ‘Poltergeist’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The drizzle had thickened to a steady rain by the time we scrambled across the slippery stones in the Gann, the tide lapping at our boots. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z “The floor is slippery and you are blind.” Mark Strand, a revelatory poet of love and death 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z News reporter, the Fashion Week newbie held forth on the questionable relevance of the event, the overestimated value of “icons” and the slippery ontology of the self. Jim Carrey explains his bizarre Fashion Week interview, digging a deeper metaphysical hole 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But to add white wine would be to start down a slippery slope—what about rosé? Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps we are thinking about what constitutes representation all wrong, a slippery term that probably has more to do with complexly drawn characters and families than the mere presence of a menorah and sufganiyot. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z From a few feet away, the top face of the cube looked as slippery and delicate as a sheen of rainwater, reflecting the tree line. It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The tongue inside his mouth, “a slab of slippery meat,” is revolting to him. Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z When I shed my garments for slippery Victoria Secret panties, my self-esteem skyrocketed, and our late nights shifted to other things. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z No one production can ever make total sense of this slippery play. Julius Caesar – review 2012-06-07T00:13:00Z Reality, in all three books, turns out to be more slippery and up for grabs than the reader may at first realize. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The director's description of the "The Last Kiss," as "very moving," despite being "tonally, very you know, slippery," is delivered with perfect deadpan by Bagley. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He then turned his attention to those who say that removing the flag would lead to a “slippery slope.” “Archaic symbol of racist insurrection”: Jon Stewart destroys logic of Confederate flag supporters 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Staff members at my local emergency room admitted that they see injuries each summer from a slippery granite area at one nearby playground. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Their voices curling upward with the metallic twang of throat singing, the six vocalists gradually explore the note’s overtones, forming elusive, slippery chords dotted through with whispers, whistles and babble. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Inner voices are Fernyhough’s subject, but he admits they are slippery, hard to track, chaotic and cacophonous. What’s Up With Those Voices in Your Head? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Rabin applied what he terms “three unyielding/slippery criteria” in choosing the films: Each had to be a critical and commercial failure upon its release. From Bomb to Bust 2010-10-22T16:02:00Z “Rent,” based on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” has a challengingly slippery plot to begin with: Perhaps Larson would have refined the structure had he lived to see his show’s official opening. Perspective | ‘Rent’ and I, we’ve been going together for 23 years. And not even ‘Rent: Live’ could break us up. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z I just don’t want to encourage framing this in terms of hope at all, because the too-much/too-little/just-right business — even hope in general — is so slippery that it will only become a distraction. Perspective | Child’s illness leaves parent’s friends at a loss 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Then Michael brought a platter of whole fish, crisp on the outside with tender — really almost slippery — flesh within, one for each of us. In Sardinia, an Affordable Family-Run Farm Stay 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z His charcuterie is worth a visit all by itself, whether for the slippery, salty and gelatinous torchon of trotters or the thin slices of lightly pickled beef tongue with gribiche sauce, tangy and smooth. Restaurant Review: Blue Smoke and North End Grill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z This is the same potential slippery slope for all content these days. WWDDD: What would Don Draper do? 2011-04-13T17:30:00Z His music is good, sometimes very good, but his slippery way into other people’s psyches promises to make him indelible. 6ix9ine, the Chaos Agent 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s just so darn slippery!” argument, of course. Last month, U.S. Vatican: Gay marriage causes polygamy 2012-11-12T16:41:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Tim Crouch's superb and slippery The Author at the Traverse considers what we choose to watch on the stage. The Cry 2010-08-19T15:33:00Z But on much of the rest of the album he was as slippery as ever, and the same is true of “Blackstar.” The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z “If there’s a theme in ‘The Personality Brokers,’ woven throughout and never belabored, it’s that the self is more slippery than we allow.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Visually, they help musicians find their bearings in what would otherwise be slippery stream of symbols. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z As the zoologist St. George Jackson Mivart complained in an influential early review of “Descent,” “the instability of vicious feminine caprice” was too soft and slippery a force to drive something as important as evolution. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z No man, at least not since Noël Coward, wore a dressing gown with more slippery ease or dangerous intent. In Alan Rickman the Stage Actor, an Erotic Blend of Desire and Conscience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But on the rapper’s new album, “Eternal Atake,” reality is a slippery concept. Perspective | On Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake,’ mixed emotions swirl toward the void 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Historical , inventing within the gaps of the documentary record, is a slippery, ambidextrous form: readers may feel cheated if, captivated by the story, they check the record, only to find themselves deceived. Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle – review 2013-04-06T10:00:01Z The meaning of Arcade Fire songs can be slippery. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z Ms. Sturtevant’s work is slippery; her statements about it seem to ensure that she would not, could not be pinned down. ‘Sturtevant: Double Trouble,’ a Career Retrospective at MoMA 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z That label is only partly true; it most applies to his similarities to Merle Haggard, who of the original 1970s outlaws, was the most slippery and the most musically expansive. Popcast: Country Music Agitators 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z In other words, “law is as slippery as art,” writes Goldsmith, “but won’t admit it.” A candy-colored blend of fact, fiction and photography: 'I Fought the Law' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Some have speculated about how in some cases, non-Asian people donning the costumes could be a slippery slope to cultural appropriation. “Squid Game” costumes are being banned from some schools for their "violent message" 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Toppings like starchy mochi, slippery lychees and gummy bears are not only tasty and eye-catching, but they also provide the necessary riot of special effects. Icy, Sweet and Instagram-Ready 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Moss’s slippery, multilayered performance works use dance, theater, video and, frequently, audience participation. That Obscure, Unattainable Object of Desire: Your Own Art 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “It's slippery and it's hampering visibility on roads, so it's more difficult to see small debris like nails,” Norcross said. Toddler found in field after tornado dies 2012-03-05T13:41:00Z I would call it treacherous and slippery, but that would be embarrassing, since we passed so many Dani who bounded along in bare feet as we struggled. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z On his 2011 debut album, “Bad Vibes,” the results were slippery and sometimes sleepy. Review: Shlohmo’s ‘Dark Red’ Puts a Spin on the 1990s 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z He created slippery countercurrents within the music, and his solos moved reliably from a whisper to a roar. Music Review: Phronesis, European Jazz Trio, Performs at Jazz Standard 2013-07-03T20:37:07Z We’d be pros at this, if children weren’t such slippery little shape shifters. Flying with my toddler is easy 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z “Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and system-less, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.” Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z Many readers suggested it was a slippery slope and wondered where to draw the line. Readers Respond: Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Cynicism and wonder both permeate his new slippery art-pop album, “American Utopia,” which, he said, portrays “the state of the country: who we are, who we hope to be, all this kind of thing.” Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z They are merely slippery moments on a path where the walk is always exhilarating and the view nothing less than tremendous. Guardian book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2010-10-15T08:42:00Z Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. ‘Bond, James Bond,’ Through the Years 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z I swear, if that woman does anything to break up Banana after all the effort that has gone into getting them back under one roof, I’ve got a slippery piece of soap for her. Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action 2012-01-23T14:00:44Z What was charming becomes cloying, and Jamie’s ingratiation – even grooming of Josh – becomes slippery, sinister. While We're Young: Ben Stiller has a hipster replacement in brilliant comedy 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Without compelling melodies or lyrics to shore them up, or any real sense of forward momentum, there’s no way to rescue these slippery songs from themselves. Alabama Shakes’s latest is a departure gone too far 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z With Argo, Lincoln's great Oscar rival, things get more slippery. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z As I walked uphill, repeating Ashbery’s lines to myself, I found them as slippery as an eel, almost Heraclitean because it’s so hard to say the same line of Ashbery exactly the same way twice. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z We bid on that slippery slope for too long, but I think we're getting away from it. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Forget those slippery wisps of silk that claim to be masks. The ultimate holiday gift guide for 2020 This was Rock Against Drugs, aiming to use the hipness of rockers to discourage their young fans from going down the slippery slope to drugged out doom. Rock Against Drugs was Reagan’s answer to the hedonism of the ’80s 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z They spoke warmly about the richness of his characters and his writerly compassion for their follies and absurdities “They’re as slippery as we are as human beings.” Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z "I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer . . . canceling voices is a slippery slope," Ek wrote in Sunday's memo. Spotify stands by Joe Rogan, despite latest N-word debacle and losing more artists and subscribers 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Next Kathryn brings up the possibility of a glass floor for the viewing platform, presumably to stop visitors – perhaps made extra slippery from an earlier dripping on – from plummeting to their deaths. TV review: Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special; Secrets of Our Living Planet; True Love 2012-06-17T22:00:01Z It’s all just a little too convenient and slippery. Perspective | Chris Cuomo’s ratings soared when he interviewed his brother last spring. Now that’s off-limits. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The texture of a pickle can be off-putting for some people; foods described as "slippery" or "slimy" are ranked at the top for adult picky eaters. What’s behind America’s pickle craze? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z In fulfillment of the band’s one-thoughtful-song-per-album mandate, everyone pretends to be contemplative and sad, but Levine wasn’t made for that — he was built to be callow and slippery, and he’s commendably good at those things. Peak cheesiness and painful sincerity: New music from Maroon 5 and Counting Crows “Milo Hayward,” one of his more soulful originals, featured a slippery rhythmic underlay that would sound at home on the album “Miles Smiles.” 2010-01-30T05:30:00Z Wolff is also slippery about whether he was present for some of the conversations he relays or is merely offering a version of events from those who were. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z They keep things syncopated and slippery, and Auerbach tosses off an ornery solo on “Getaway.” Album review: Dr. John, 'Locked Down' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-01T23:26:00Z As savvy and elegant as this show is, it makes you wonder what would happen if Ms. Collier tapped into that newer, more slippery photo culture. ‘Anne Collier,’ a Photography Retrospective at Bard College 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “It was extremely unwise to believe that such potent, slippery beings could have masters,” Rushdie writes. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z There are moments where the act doesn't quite gel, where the music becomes too slippery to get a grip on, its genesis in stoned jam sessions a little too obvious – a descent into impenetrable murk. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-25T15:06:00Z “When we condemn by instinct our democracy is on a slippery slope.” Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again? 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Throughout, Chee endeavors to catch himself at a distance and reckon, ever humble and bracingly honest, with the slippery terrain of memory, identity and love. Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Charles sometimes played poker with some of the jockeys — a slippery bunch, he said. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Race to the Tower is a double marathon along the Cotswolds Way via slippery forest trails, up and over hills that, added together, amount to the equivalent of 7,500 feet in elevation. After drugs and booze, an ultramarathon taught me how to love the mile I’m in 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Broderick is our guide to the time, place and people of “Talk House,” though his slippery character would probably prefer that we not attribute any such responsibility to him. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As a collection of songs, it’s as slippery as its rhythms. Album review: Atoms for Peace, 'Amok' 2013-02-25T02:50:00Z Some may find it a bit slippery, but it leaves skin feeling noticeably supple. These Creams Will Make Your Dry Skin Forget About Winter 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Authenticity, an always slippery but foundational concept in hip-hop, has taken on even greater significance in the internet age. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z As swimmers emerged from the pool, the deck became more slippery, more crowded, more like the dance floors of a time when fear didn’t hang over every social gathering. Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z But it’s also a slippery label that has little to do with how a person’s brain works and everything to do with how she is culturally received. Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Because Chablis’s terroir, that slippery notion that combines the influence of the soil, the microclimate, the elevation, the inclination of the land toward the sun and the cultural influence, is so distinctive. Unraveling the Mystery of Chablis 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Whether comedy's gain was science's loss is unclear, but had Miller taken up teaching, I imagine a generation of children inspired to mount the slippery slope of ignorance. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z "Lay," for example, is the most slippery of verbs – and it's a noun, too, of course, meaning a ballad or song. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z With an icy detachment, it peers through the fog of war and examines the slippery military intelligence on both sides to portray a world steeped in secrecy, deception and paranoia. Movie Review: ‘Shadow Dancer,’ Starring Clive Owen 2013-05-30T20:34:48Z If attorneys started dropping clients based on bad behavior, the slope would very quickly become slippery. Why Mel Gibson's lawyers haven't dropped him 2010-07-29T18:30:00Z Steely Dan was a rock band with jazzy aspirations — until the group made “Aja,” a milestone of the fusion years and their first encounter with Shorter’s slippery saxophone playing. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Delicate, slippery Cantonese rice flour crepes filled with beef, pork or shrimp, then rolled, steamed and dusted with sesame seeds are a street-food specialty at Joe Rong’s popular storefront in Flushing, Queens. Taiwanese Fried Chicken and Bubble Tea Head to the Flatiron District 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Noah is like every wealthy heir — there is an element of slippery with him. Jonathan Rhys Meyers on being a bold boy playing amoral men: "Nobility can be a little bit tedious" 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z And Mozgala portrays John as someone who is slippery, coy and clever, with a shadiness beneath. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z By whatever means, Hayes was able to coax out sounds that could shift from slippery syncopation to dizzying, psychedelic crescendos. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z And a painting from Rajasthan of the final battle between the armies of Rama and Ravana depicts war as it is: a ghastly, slippery, reeking puddle of blood and mashed flesh. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Are we doing things that are on that slippery slope?” The college-admissions scandal rattled rich parents. But will it change them? 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s a slippery hybrid: self-flagellation and charm offensive. Review | Ethan Hawke turns his acting experience — and past infidelities — into brilliant fiction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Lueger was a slippery, pragmatic, un-Hitler-like politician; the so-called liberals, for their part, undermined democracy by opposing an expansion of the vote. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Most of the concert’s high points — “Diamond of God,” “Perfect Sounds” — were drawn from the group’s most recent mixtape, the excellent “808s & Dark Grapes II,” which is slippery and vibrant. Music Review: Main Attrakionz at the New Museum - Review 2011-08-28T21:58:00Z Keep any negative musings on jellied eels to yourself at this celebration of Ely's slippery namesake. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z Yet for all his prudence, Bush did go down some slippery slopes. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But there’s money to be made in the notion of a “cure” for disease – a slippery word you will be hard pressed to find anyone in the world of cancer treatment ever using. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z “Punk rock” became a more general-use term, as slippery as it was sought after. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Dussolier's role is almost by definition a more slippery part to grasp. Paris' fate is at stake in the flawless, WWII-set 'Diplomacy' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “This is where we go down a slippery slope,” she said with a chuckle. Cider Moves Beyond the Apple 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Running style: If the terrain is snowy or slippery, shorten your running stride and keep your feet lower to the ground. What bike and run commuters need to know to keep it up through winter 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Jan Bayati of German music management company Bottom Row says 48-year-old Lee died Tuesday in Nevada after a semitrailer crashed into a group of motorcycles on a slippery road. Swiss rocker Steve Lee dies in US highway accident 2010-10-06T14:20:00Z Gooey with Gorgonzola, slippery with candied balsamic onions, it was Simpson's favorite and one of mine, too. You won't leave Bellevue's Lunchbox Laboratory hungry 2012-04-12T20:15:10Z In one, shallot, mint and dried shrimp bolstered the soft, slippery white pulp of grilled eggplant. Mai Thaiku fixes homestyle food, cool and quick 2013-07-18T23:24:52Z But between the verse and the chorus, Burna generates a groan so sodden and slippery with beautiful melody, it’s impossible to describe what’s truly being expressed. Perspective | Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’ with a sound that defies geography 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Particularly well known for his stint in Miles Davis’s band during the 1960s, this tenor saxophonist uses a lissome, slippery tone to craft melodies of scattered beauty. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The slope could become even more slippery if extremist or racist organizations sought similar status. What’s a legitimate news outlet? A new face in the White House press pool raises questions. 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z During one such illness, while she was managing a program aimed at reducing psychiatric hospital recidivism, she tried treating herself with herbs – elderberry root and slippery elm – instead of visiting a doctor. Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But the idea must be slippery, because it will not stick. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “I’m proud of myself. I’m slippery that way.” Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z There was lots of clambering up slopes while hanging on to roots, and a bit of hopping across streams on slippery rocks. Frugal Traveler Blog: Opening Up Paraguay’s Landlocked Guairá Region 2013-04-30T17:10:13Z Because figuring out how to feel about Bill Clinton seems instrumental in figuring out how to process the current moment, and the discussions always get slippery. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z In recent years, she’s distanced herself from that good-time vibe to present works that place female dancers in slippery, dreamlike settings where movement relates to deep sensations. Review: Katie Workum Presents ‘Black Lakes’ at Danspace Project 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z This slippery approach is one strategy for dealing with the intractable issue at hand in “A Living Documentary”: how to do the work one wants, while also earning a living. Theater Review: ‘A Living Documentary,’ a Solo Show at New York Live Arts 2014-03-07T23:19:35Z The best bit was when, against a harmonically slippery background riff sustained in the Gordon trio and LCO strings, each children's section took a break in turn. London Chamber Orchestra/Warren-Green – review 2013-04-19T16:41:24Z Ms. Davis takes a solo of slippery insistence, then turns things over to the trumpeter Marquis Hill, a virtuoso with a sandy tone and an ear for reflective phrasing. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Two new picture books and a graphic novel treat swimming as an expansive state of being, slippery with promise. Water Dance 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z We would have braved the slippery climb had my knee not been throbbing. Overnighter: In Bustling Vietnam, a Rare and (still untrammeled) Escape 2012-01-13T17:53:11Z At the Met, Bernheim played against type with his slippery vocalism and louche, jaded demeanor. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z More bobbing, weaving, and slippery behaviour is no doubt in the offing. Mumbai University drops Rohinton Mistry novel after extremists complain 2010-10-19T16:12:00Z Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss Like its smirking antihero and chief narrator, the serial con artist Frédéric Bourdin, “The Imposter” is slippery, manipulative, unstable and smoothly confounding. Movie Review: ‘The Imposter,’ About the Con Artist Frédéric Bourdin 2012-07-12T22:39:37Z It’s generic: These slippery bodies stop one beat short of anguish. Review: Wendy Whelan’s ‘Restless Creature’ Is Full of Jagged Rhythms 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z When she let the walls down, though, she was entrancing — the slippery semi-yodel on “Drunk and With Dreams,” and the hungry energy on “Iota.” Music Review: Angel Olsen Sings From Her New Album at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-02-21T22:53:23Z Though “Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen” offers much that speaks to our own slippery times, it’s neither philosophy posing as a story nor a patronizing sneer at those gullible folk of yesteryear. Birthing Bunnies: An 18th-Century Woman’s Bizarre Medical Hoax 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Deadpan humor is a slippery creature; miss the tone by just a little, and the potential wriggles away. Review: In ‘Take Me,’ a Kidnapping Turns Cat-and-Mouse 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Walking barefoot on Lewis: "The peat was slippery and cool, and where I stepped on sphagnum it surged up and around my foot, damp as a poultice." The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z “The Third Man” hangs on a slippery mystery named Harry Lime, memorably played by a scarcely seen Orson Welles. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The risks can feel too slippery to calculate, the logistics too maddening to square. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In cooler months, this section of trail can get slippery, and there’s a bit of exposure, so I keep Lucy close. Easy hike to Elowah Falls is a gem of the Columbia Gorge 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The definition of liberalism itself is capacious, and therefore slippery. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The good Duke, in his way, is almost as slippery as the bad Lucio, and Mr. Mays brings a kaleidoscopic array of shadings to the character. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z Analogue's slippery examination of suicide, Beachy Head, is at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal tonight and then visits Paisley, York and Aberystwyth next week. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-18T18:48:25Z The performers are already risking life and limb, so to increase the degree of difficulty by making them deal with slippery surfaces seems almost absurd. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The world, the twins are learning, is a slippery and complicated place. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Such slippery reference points underscore one reason why the band has endured: Their darkness is uniquely their own. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the women around me, engaged in their own muscle work, were sweating so much that the floors became slippery. Urban Athlete: A Tracy Anderson Workout in New York 2012-06-07T23:02:36Z Ruscha remains an elusive artist and Los Angeles an elusive city, each of them slippery to the last. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Alternating between remorse and what-about-isms, he could be forthcoming and straightforward, but also slippery, refusing any suggestion that he might tone down the chaos. 6ix9ine, Rap’s Newly Freed, Chart-Topping Villain, Admits to Everything 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z In examining what kind of society would begrudge an elderly man a chance at literacy, the filmmakers situate Maruge’s tale on the slippery ground between satire and suspense thriller. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z My eyes watered and my gag reflex twitched as I pulled out chunks of chocolate cake, nibbled pieces of cheese, slimy lettuce and gristly meat all coated in a slippery muck. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them The works are also slippery in a more psychologically demanding way, which ends up being the most interesting thing about them. Simmons & Burke's newest at Kohn: Digital collages that dazzle and daunt 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z We soon realized Mr. Nani was following no set route, just feeling his way across the landscape by walking along the narrow edges of the terraces that at times resembled muddy, slippery balance beams. In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Rap is built with words, and when those words are made soft and slippery enough to feel like they’re bending rhythm and time, they plunge us into the freedom of an eternal present. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The eerie music, with wiry lines and slippery chords, conveys collective disorientation. Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ Uses Opera to Tell a Jazz Story 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z It accumulates at the high-water mark where it can create a slippery and sometimes smelly barrier to the sea. People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z With Piper back in a solitary lockup, Larry’s father, rightly, tells her he’s done: “You live on this slippery slope, kid, and for some reason you can’ t seem to stop doing rain dances.” 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Season 2 Begins in a More Menacing World 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Historical comparisons are always contingent and can be slippery, but they are necessary because they enable us to understand the nature of mistakes. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It was the year in which Polanski slipped the net and the documentary turned slippery, with a gaggle of supposedly factual films that veered perilously close to fiction. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z Both of those realities were inarguably blunted by Presley’s manager, the slippery Col. ‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ Review: Fully in the Building 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the elements of the play as self-commentary on its slippery theatrical nature are played up by its director, the troupe’s founding artistic director, David Herskovits. | 'The Tempest': Whimsical Winds Buffet Hearts on a Magical Isle 2011-05-10T21:45:55Z “Very good, Sara, really,” he told her warmly after she finished a pas de deux full of tricky, slippery partnering, with Andrew Veyette. Liam Scarlett Creates a Work for City Ballet 2014-01-24T19:41:14Z What Mr. Lovano is after here is both simpler and more slippery, and better suited to his particular gifts. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z Karen, the slippery slope is to being a short order cook and making three different meals every single night so that every person gets exactly what he/she "loves" at all times. When Dinner Proves Divisive: One Strategy, Many Dishes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Some do so guiltily, as if on a slippery slope to smiley faces. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z In both artists’ work, the grid is slippery but indomitable. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The dish is often too sweet and slippery with oil, but in Mr. Kim’s hands it’s measured and restrained. Handsome Rice Serves Beautiful Korean Short Ribs 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z There, Jordan Morley, who portrays the slippery, malevolent Boy Witch, led a walk-through of his intricate performance loop, repeated three times during each show. ?Sleep No More? Is Theater Embedded With Dancers 2011-09-06T21:55:06Z The prisoners they take are just as slippery as their leader, Dawn. 'The Walking Dead' recap: The storylines get 'Crossed' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Slide whistles and unusual percussion evoke eerie, slippery nocturnal stillness. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z “Stories are like dough,” Polly thinks, reflecting on the slippery business of family myth. Strangers in the Night, Exchanging Genre Conventions 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Eaton exploits photography’s slippery relationship to reality by seeming to collapse time and space, reminding us that what we see is not always what it seems. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z "It's a very slippery thing to try to get out any truisms about war," he said in an interview about the film. Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z And though Ashling’s strangeness is undeniable, it’s also slippery to pin down. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Owens called the shiny, slippery finishes “hallucinogenic” for their reflective depth. Generation Genius! 2012-09-27T18:27:45Z It speaks to the slippery grip of this daring, vexing book that I found my thoughts often straying from the story and wandering instead toward its author. Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z But it is not just a matter of the witnesses being slippery: crucially, the bandit, the samurai and the samurai's wife each claim to have committed the murderous act themselves, the samurai by suicide. Film review: Rash?mon 2010-06-17T22:30:00Z This maddening, brain-scrambling show, which just opened at the esteemed Soho Rep, is nothing if not slippery. Review: What’s Past Is Prologue in ‘While You Were Partying’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Who wouldn’t want the chance to be a slippery, flitting postmodern sylph? Review: Stephen Petronio Company Revives ‘Glacial Decoy,’ With Its Supple Sylphs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Theron’s Kelly is closer to being the main character, which is kind of odd in itself, given what a slippery, unknowable figure the real Megyn Kelly turned out to be. “Bombshell” is a muddled, soapy mess that doesn’t do Fox News nor #MeToo any favors 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Morris, a guitarist, plays with bladelike concision and slippery counterintuition. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But as each of these captivating novels demonstrates, reassurance is a slippery creature. Sex, Love and Religious Fervor Abound in Two New Novels 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Ruth, who is now 31 and lives outside of Atlanta, describes her family's religion as a "slippery slope that led to Quiverfull." The parentification trap: How evangelical daughters like the Duggar girls become mothers in training 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z It's a particularly slippery job, nailing down the mercury that is singer Karen Orzolek, one of the finest front-people of her generation. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – review 2013-07-20T23:07:01Z “There is a slippery slope if you get very precious about holding out a litmus test for service on a board,” said Reynold Levy, the former president of Lincoln Center and a philanthropy expert. New Scrutiny of Museum Boards Takes Aim at World of Wealth and Status 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The slippery arithmetic and the sly system of measurement that converts bundles into manak boras into kilos is controlled by the contractors, and leaves plenty of room for manipulation of the worst kind. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z One senses, here, some clever metaphors for the death of print and the slippery quality of its replacement. Art in Review: CARTER MULL: ?The Day?s Specific Dreams? 2011-05-12T21:00:18Z In Thomas Pierce’s warm and inventive debut novel, “The Afterlives,” reality is slippery, time is out of joint and profound disorientation is a feature of daily existence. A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Other dancers and the film portray Mr. Filin as a slippery character, while Mr. Dmitrichenko was sometimes described as overly emotional. Out of Prison for Acid Attack, Dancer Hopes to Get Back to the Bolshoi 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a fun enough idea, but it never quite landed, and segueing from that ironic niceness to Oh’s genuine earnestness just set everything off on a confusing, slippery start. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a slippery term that seems to mean something different to every generation. Meet the Next Generation of Black Folk Singers 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z But, for the most part, the only things that distract me – briefly – from the pleasures of the sea are slippery, mossy rocks, and seaweed pulling my ankles into an embrace. I like pools, and have named ducks in swimming ponds. But the sea heals above all else | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Phillips’s film is slippery, divisive and borderline irresponsible in its climactic call to arms. Send in the crowns: in trumping Venice competition, Joker begins grand slam | Xan Brooks 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Our tete-a-tete with the gorillas of the Amahoro, or “Peace,” group is even more rewarding after we endure a steep hike through slippery mud and waist-high stinging nettles. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z At the top of the gorge, slippery steps cut into the hillside lead to the Graseck Forsthaus, a traditional Bavarian guesthouse. Overnighter: Exploring Around Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2012-02-24T17:08:02Z Firm and slippery, chewy and nutty, the house-made buckwheat noodles are the delight of Japanese families with young children in search of mild comfort food. Five Places to Go in Düsseldorf 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In her syntactically slippery second rendering, two ideas interlink. Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z But he hasn’t stopped working with trios like this one, a slippery longtime unit featuring the pianist Jacob Sacks and the bassist Thomas Morgan. Jazz Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In every digital industry the attempt to combat piracy has led to a massive reduction in cover price: the slippery slope towards free digital content. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z That logic is somewhat slippery, but without Leeds in the mix, An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams would lose its most dramatic entry. The Aesthete: An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams 2014-01-29T05:00:00Z I don’t know where the slippery slope ends.” The Met, the opera on Leon Klinghoffer’s murder and the politics of protest Shaham is a mercurial violinist with a silvery, slippery tone beautifully employed in the opening solo. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z “The American experiment” is a slippery little phrase, summoning the country’s noblest ideals while leaving generous room to forgive our failures to achieve them. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It didn’t much matter if the backing vocal, with that familiar slippery digital voice, was louder than what he was rapping into the microphone. Fetty Wap’s Tweaked Sound Yields Hit in ‘Trap Queen’ 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But he thinks paid reviews put theater criticism on a “slippery slope” toward losing its value and credibility. That offer asking theaters to pony up $150 for pay-to-play reviews falls flat in L.A. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The use of slippery slope, here in quotes, interested me. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The stage crew mopped in plain view while we watched a brief video of the slippery grace of microscopic critters, a nod to the dance company’s namesake, an energetic barnyard fungus. Pilobolus’s naked display of magic In an interview aboard the Governors Island ferry, the critics — Hudson, 5, and Jacqueline, 3 — proffered a slippery set of criteria, verging on the tautological. Testing New York City’s Longest Slide, on Governors Island 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “It just seems like a slippery slope for me. Then what’s it going to be, the best movie with a woman cast?” Perspective | John Krasinski turned ‘A Quiet Place’ into a surprise hit. So how about an Oscar? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Silk or satin pillowcases, with their slippery feel, reduce the friction on strands. How to Look Like You Live in Paris, or at Least Have Your Hair Claim You Do 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Kitson’s funny, slippery, dare-you-to-be-exasperated solo show “Keep.,” making its U.S. premiere at Studio Theatre, often argues that holding on to old possessions is a way of staying honest, of acknowledging past choices. Review | Comedian Daniel Kitson rants about the joy — and tyranny — of stuff 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Hunches prove as slippery and addictive as gossip, and other entanglements are in play, too. Review: ‘Wild Canaries’: Love, Death and Suspicious Minds 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s messy, slippery music whose charms reveal themselves over repeat listens. Your Week in Seattle Music: Ringo Starr, Wye Oak, The Fixx and more 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z There is cheese by the pound, from Wisconsin or France; meat cured in house; fish like the best of Russ & Daughters: herring, salmon belly salad, anchovies slippery and argent. The Menuist: An avocado chocolate pudding from Abbott Kinney that everybody will love 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z An amalgam of gender stereotypes distilled into one rough yet slippery package, she isn’t fragile or ferocious, victim or predator, feminine or masculine. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander, Blunted in Tooth and Claw 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But even in a slippery situation like that, I had unwavering trust in my dad. Trauma ran away with my childhood: Losing my father to violence forced me to grow up fast 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Hodes teaches a seminar on history and autobiography, and the slippery relationship between them. An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z It begins with a slippery tune, woodwinds dominant, as tart chords punch out accents and off beats. Review: U.S. Youth Orchestra Inspires a Chinese Counterpart 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z “Grand Strategy” is a capacious but slippery concept, one that has generated continuing debates about its meaning. Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z To hear Mr. Katz tell it, the slippery experience of watching “Cold Weather,” which opens Friday in New York, mirrors his process of writing it. Film: An Indie Gumshoe in Oregon?s Gloom 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z There are also suggestions in the libretto of dreams and analysis, and the slippery nature of memory. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z No one warned me that dieting would be a slippery slope. How a Pre-Wedding Diet Led to an Eating Disorder 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Set in the mid-1990s, the series underscores the slippery social standing of Italian girls, and women, seeking to find a footing in a world where men call the shots. Netflix Brings the Intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Naples to the Screen 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Arneson is represented by a panoply of ceramic sculptures and reliefs that attest to his slippery, multifaceted talent as well as his vigorous transpositions of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Art in Review: ?CIRCLE OF FRIENDS?: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley 2011-08-18T20:45:29Z But please let me know what you made of this slippery, unsettling piece of work. The Author: Edinburgh's most talked about play 2010-08-12T11:21:00Z And still, I was struck, maybe for the first time, by one of the play’s most slippery ironies. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Judging art by the foibles of the artist is a slippery slope to banality.My favorite author is Faulkner. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But then there’s the astonishingly fine flavor and texture of the blue shrimp themselves, glossy and appealingly slippery on a bed of ice pebbles. The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z I was also reminded that I was dealing here with a very slippery fish. Peter Handke’s Tale of the Telling of the Tale 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The timeline is slippery, flashing back at length and jumping months ahead. Review | An enigmatic child sends a small town on a search for answers 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Sirens are remarkably slippery, enabling them to slide through a predator’s jaws with ease. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Hollywood has built its power by creating slippery, symbolic dreams that are dreamed by everyone in the world at the same time, and then assuring us that they mean nothing. Why Hollywood's response to 9/11 involved Harry Potter and Spider-Man 2011-09-09T18:51:00Z If history is any indication, the speakers will warn about a slippery slope. A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z A slippery bowl of seaweed and raw amberjack evoked a tide pool, teeming with life, the kind you squat over as a kid, watching in awe. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But so do the slippery aspects of electronic and new music, which explained its presence at the Greenwich House Music School on Thursday night, kicking off the 25th season of the North River Music series. Music Review: Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery 2010-10-25T22:19:00Z The technology sends power to all four wheels at once, which makes the car perform much better on corners and slippery roads. Glossary: Automotive Terminology 2010-07-23T16:00:00Z The play explores the slippery power dynamics between men and women, directors and actors and those desiring pain and those more than delighted to administer it. 'Venus in Fur' is a delicious study of sexual power dynamics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Self proves slippery here in other ways too. | 'Three Women' and 'Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath': Seeking Sylvia Plath, in Her Own Words and Someone Else?s 2010-10-27T21:00:00Z Heavy, dragging phrases looped in an ever-deepening expression of melancholy; one lithe, slippery dance grew gradually more cocky. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Banks: "The Details" is a black comedy about the slippery slope of infidelity. Sundance familiar territory for Elizabeth Banks 2011-01-24T02:27:53Z He was also, not to be forgotten, highly intelligent, profoundly manipulative, contrary, slippery and a superb performer. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z For Sander, formal repetition wasn’t an end in itself but a conveniently stable framework for the slippery individuality of his subjects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Terms like “Pandora’s box” and “slippery slope” are routinely invoked by those who believe a museum’s artworks should never be treated as assets to be monetized, unless it is to buy new art. The Met plans to use money from art sales to help it survive the pandemic. Critics say it’s a dangerous precedent. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Instead the director relies on emotional connection which can be slippery given how impressionistic it is. "You Won't Be Alone" is a sensual and gory shapeshifting film that pushes back at society 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl and Legend were at dinner with friends when the reaction -- think twitchy eyes and a "slippery" tongue -- hit her. Chrissy Teigen was trippin' -- on a raw cashew nut 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But, slippery as he is, this is too important to let slide. ‘No, Mr. Trump, that’s a lie’: What Lesley Stahl should have said Sunday night 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z He was unfailingly polite, but I felt as if I were pushing against a shifting, slippery wall of sand. Is Lars von Trier Trolling Us? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Ice is unlike any other medium, he says — slippery and heavy. Ice sculptors compete in a chilly championship 2011-02-07T18:37:32Z Because Mr. Spacey doesn’t do chastened the way he does slippery and snide, you want to avert your eyes; eating humble pie just doesn’t become him. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z MLB officials banned the spitball, because they were afraid a pitcher might lose control of the slippery pitch and kill another player. Perspective | ‘Sticky stuff,’ spitballs, steroids and other ways MLB players have broken the rules to win 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In that sense, the title “Comedian” is ironic — for Mr. Cattelan, like all the best clowns, is a tragedian who makes our certainties as slippery as a banana peel. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Some Ewe rhythms have a slippery, collapsing quality, an amorphous relationship to any easily recognizable downbeat. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The term “female gaze” is a bit slippery and academic; we don’t really know what it is, we just know what it is not. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z I welcomed the uneven terrain and slippery stream crossings as a chance to build stability and fall resilience. After taking a painful tumble, this doctor and runner is learning the best way to fall 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z So slippery that he considered doing the 1,300-foot walk barefoot. Daredevil: Sand made NJ tightrope walk tricky 2012-08-10T13:15:55Z Ms. Lee’s deep, magnetic voice jaggedly rises and dips, augmented by strident drums that power the dancers’ seamless partnering and slippery hurtling through space. Review: A Taste of Seoul at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Roth – who was set to play the younger Lecter in 2002's Red Dragon, until Anthony Hopkins dyed his hair and reprised the role – has a reputation for being slippery. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z In Van Lieshout's work, good and bad are slippery terms, and he frets about being too arty, not artful enough, about what art is and isn't. Erik van Lieshout: enter the void 2011-01-10T21:59:00Z Then he hit his turn signal, lurched off the highway and eased on down said slippery road. Is Don Lemon sexist? Maybe, but that's just part of the problem for CNN 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z This isn’t “Singin’ in the Rain” — the very idea of finding solace in a puddle would make Wednesday’s eyes roll — but a twisted left turn down a slippery path. The Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation. Be Weird. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Some of the most popular trails, including Courthouse Butte Loop Trail leading to the iconic massif and Cathedral Rock Trail, which can be slippery when wet, are noticeably quieter in winter. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z There were also some slippery means to get it there, since the film used staged reenactments, a technique favored neither by journalists nor law-enforcement officials. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The most slippery and structurally advanced music of the set belonged to Mr. Loueke, who, with his longtime trio, also captured the afternoon’s purest spirit of play. Wallace Roney Plays Wayne Shorter at Parker Jazz Festival 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z “It’s always a very slippery slope how much you let the original building influence your designs,” Mr. Mergenthaler said. The Batcave, a Graffiti Landmark in Brooklyn, Grows Up 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Eight of us, including my dad, clung to tangled vines to steady ourselves against the slippery undergrowth along a slope in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. Climbing Over Rocks, Holding on to Vines and Then, at Last, Gorillas 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Rounding out the ensemble were Willie Jones III on drums, Gerald Cannon on bass and Mark Gross, whose slippery saxophone solos raised the temperature an extra degree or two. Music Review: Gregory Generet at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-30T22:52:00Z But the dynamics of leading a large, fractured majority remain unchanged, and Boehner retains as slippery a grip as ever. John Boehner pleads for unity at GOP retreat 2012-01-21T04:56:00Z They are usually narrated by a slippery, sceptical, ironical self, written in the first, second, or third person. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z Thrashing and full of impact but endlessly slippery, Logan Richardson’s two-electric-guitar quintet remains guided at every turn by his alto saxophone. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Among their cohesive trademarks were a slippery, open-ended approach to harmony and a magically elastic way with rhythm. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z His slippery relationship with vegan food, his never-dry hair, the way he gets all overexcited when he gets to "go method" with gangs. Why I prefer the US version of The Killing to the Danish original 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s as slippery as noodles, with any attempt to characterize it often countered by an exception. These Gingery Soba Noodles May Just Defy Definition 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s akin to catching your reflection in water: the outlines and features are there but the details are slippery, shifting. The Morning Show: why the messy #MeToo drama is both hit and miss 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s an album of empathy and reverie, with slippery complexities that only rarely serve as a distraction. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z Recounting more of the plot would be a disservice to those who enjoy nifty swerves of story line, slippery characters and noiresque crosses and double-crosses. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z Parker’s “Scrapple From the Apple” loses its steady pulse, becoming an immersion in overtones and soupy interplay, especially between Mr. Braxton’s contrabass clarinet and the sighing, slippery bass of Joe Fonda. The Playlist: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Unite, and 12 More New Songs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z "High-maintenance" was a slippery and yet sticky category defined by physical and behavioural characteristics. ‘High maintenance’ is a red flag on dating apps. Women are still expected to shrink themselves 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z I ran my hand through the slippery packets of foam slugs; they were yellow and pink, like rhubarb and custard sweets. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But for the most part he speaks through slippery, nervous, quick beats with industrial churn. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z As slippery as its female star’s often oil-slicked body, this shape-shifting tale of two newly orphaned teenagers and the men who would prey on them plays with our eyes even more than our minds. Movie Review: Alicia Scherson’s Moody, Mysterious ‘Il Fortuno’ 2013-09-06T02:43:31Z Her lyrics are vulnerable but uncomplicated, as raw as journal jottings, or as slippery half-remembered inspirational quotes that floated out of the Internet and into the forefront of her consciousness. Review | Adele’s ‘30’ has more to offer than dazzling sadness 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Dennis Kelly's Love and Money, a slippery play about different kinds of credit, financial and emotional, is revived by Waking Exploits at Chapter Arts. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-12T12:06:57Z And weeks later, my bathroom tiles are still slippery. A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Memory can be slippery stuff and sometimes it was hard for him to find the overarching voice that would somehow absorb the reality of the diary, plus what he’d written later on. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z With his hooded eyes, angular features and praying mantis figure, he can project a slippery, suspicious quality, like a more intellectual Mr. Bean. Peter Capaldi Makes His Debut as Doctor Who 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z I'd start with a small, manageable story: one hand has twenty-seven bones, split into three types—the carpals, the metacarpals, and the slippery phalanges. A girl's skeleton in the museum: On runaways, the Jersey Shore and a cold case that haunted me 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Wearing a traditional glittering golden robe and headdress, and using amplification, she sang the songs in the ethnic style of this repertory, involving nasal tone and slippery pitch, and putting emphasis on the words. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z These slippery meanings attract Báez: They suggest the possibility of alternative histories. In Boston, Art That Rises From the Deep 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z The three young men who made this slippery, inexpert and totally addictive movie have also been accused of being "supremely douchey," which is not a charge that can be objectively rebutted. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z But like most in the low-immigration camp she is skeptical about guest worker plans, at home or abroad, seeing a slippery slope to exploitation. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z Regardless of where your sympathies lie regarding the slippery Frémonts, there’s no denying the new importance Inskeep has given them. The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The entries are dated 1973, yet slippery temporal shifts are disrupting her research and our understanding of the narrative. ‘Enys Men’ Review: Island of the Lost 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Halfway through the Martha I developed the admittedly sick hope that Patrick would track Martha down; he has the kind of slippery charisma you want to see more of. John Hawkes? Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal 2011-10-21T20:04:15Z I ran up the hills, because I knew I wouldn’t slip, and was more cautious going downhill on slippery stones. The Icebug race – along stunning coastline and through untouched forests 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But lusciously sweet and slippery when fully ripe. Persimmons, Pomegranates and Radicchio for a Colorful Winter Salad 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z At least it shows Mr. Hortin’s nimble proficiency for stuttering, slippery movement. Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Nods to Balanchine 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The inherent fallacy in “how you remember it” becomes the slippery tenet of the album, which forced the band members to scrutinize how and what they truly remember about the era. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Balancing on the slippery, shimmering stones of the breathtaking bridge, with the cold waters of the Neretva River glistening far below, Amir Hanic pokes his nose up and takes his last breath. Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The saxophonist is a postbop player with the inevitable Coltrane and Wayne Shorter connections, but his improvising – a blend of steadily accumulating iron logic and slippery, light-toned lyricism – has a character all his own. This week's new live music 2013-01-26T06:00:08Z And the eggplant curry, hidden under fried shallots, also has an abundance of texture — a vegetable cooked to its zenith — in various places crisp, chewy, sticky or slippery. At Nari, a Thai Chef Revitalizes Fine Dining 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The meal's sweet finish might be a cool, slippery milk pudding, fragile semolina cookies made with dates or walnuts, or pistachio-packed baklava. A taste of Lebanon at Cafe Munir 2012-04-05T19:24:04Z The most dangerous thing I’d encountered so far was the slippery bathroom floor at Fudruckers, where a woman had fallen into my arms, and I had held her like a baby. I felt the love – finally – at the Women's March, but what do we do tomorrow? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But even when that happens, it somehow amplifies the slippery ambivalence that is her signature. Sharon Van Etten's expansive vocal talent sings from the darkness 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z For the dancers, there were solos or at least featured moments: Huiwang Zhang was astonishing — slippery and resilient as he wound and rolled his way along a single pathway of light. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Fragments for a Fragmented Time 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Rice and peas, fried plantains and stewed cabbage, slippery with coconut oil, are all mandatory in my book. A Brooklyn Favorite for Jamaican Food Beats the Odds 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z He planted one foot gleefully in the popular culture of Broadway; the other incautious and questing one sought footing in the slippery realm of classical. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In the book he suggests that Mr. McGinniss, who lived and worked next to the defense team, was callow and opportunistic, a writer who traveled “a slippery slope of tergiversation, opportunism and self-interest.” Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z When this coating comes into contact with water, for example through bodily fluids, it becomes slippery. Self-lubricating condom design may encourage safe sex 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z She was, therefore, much easier to caricature than the bog-standard upper-class, self-deprecating, slippery politician. Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z Identity — artistic, cultural, familial — is slippery in “Girl, Woman, Other.” ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z With a poetic libretto and mercurial score, its ideas shift in and out of focus, slippery and only suggested: the ephemerality of inspiration; the stifling frustration of doubt; the ecstasy of cultivating beauty. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z If you hike on the well-marked trails, wear sturdy shoes or sneakers: The trails can be rocky or slippery in places. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The narrow, slippery marble steps of Disney Hall presented challenges. Music Center's Moves After Dark about contemporary dance, architecture 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z SUN Explore marine life at low tide, wear shoes for wet, slippery surfaces, 10 a.m. Community calendar 2012-05-16T23:11:04Z Censorship, that old slippery slope, is anathema to comedy fans. Like it or not, it's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z For Mr. Naharin, 64, a playground is what he calls his studio, where he creates slippery, enigmatic dances that flicker between strident assertions of bold physicality and buttery fluidity. ‘Mr. Gaga’ Comes to Town 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Anyway, comparisons across cultures can be slippery unless based on confirmable data, which is not the case here. In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The result is a rare longitudinal insight into the slippery nature of scientific progress. Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z I wanted Nate to be as layered and as slippery as any actual living male and to be true enough that readers would recognize parts of themselves in him. ArtsBeat: Slippery Nate: Adelle Waldman Talks About ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’ 2013-07-17T17:05:29Z These slippery mountain stretches are notoriously dangerous in the winter and are prone to multi-car accidents because it's easy for drivers to lose control of their autos. America's Scariest Highways 2010-05-18T20:00:00Z In an equation that operates more like a dance, Parker and Arndt prove that talent is expanded when those slippery variables of time and relativity are factored in. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z All the singers drink slippery elm tea, but I got tired of it and I got into a bunch of different teas, like Earl Grey and rooibos tea, which is really popular in South Africa. Saycon Sengbloh Unwinds With Lo-Fi YouTube and Fireplace Vibes 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Even as the footwork, performed on an slippery stage, becomes more perilous, and the snow coats sweaty bodies, the chaos the dancers initiate is too controlled, too staged. Review: A Dance for Our Times Travels to a Dark Place 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, what works for one addicted brain—decimating both physical cravings and more slippery psychological urges—may not for another, and what works to mitigate one opiate may not for another. Can we trust addiction medication? 2012-10-04T22:09:00Z It's a slippery slope when you start dressing like a worldly girl. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z It is slippery and compelling, written with the vivid precision that marks Mr Carey’s best work. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Race is also encoded into conversations in more subtle, slippery ways. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Big Brother’ Becomes a Lab Experiment In Overt Racism 2013-07-16T22:44:18Z Like her hero Duchamp, she mines the slippery bond between things and language, text and thought. Artist of the week 128: Bethan Huws 2011-03-02T16:09:17Z There is often talk of a lake dunk, but we usually stick to a photo shoot on the slippery dock. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z For appetizers, there are slippery, thickish sheets of steamed tapioca and rice flours — “fresh crepe” on the menu — folded over chopped pressed tofu with chives and splashed with a soy dressing. A Bangkok Kitchen Hides Inside a Chinese Restaurant in Queens 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z These videos allegedly show equipment covered in grime, slippery puddles of liquid on the floor, broken floor tiles and discarded food and garbage strewn about. Taco Bell manager claims she was fired for closing the store to clean it: 'I just kept finding things that were disturbing' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Integrated and unified by upper-middle-class interest, the Highlands’ residents have long regarded themselves as surrounded by slippery slopes. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Yet from within that weird, slippery texture, a set of solid, repeating, consonant chords emerge, bringing the movement to an unusually eerie, slow finale. Classical Recordings: Jefferson Friedman: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3; Remixes 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z If anything, the project is itself a little elusive, which is often the nature with AR, a slippery medium that is still often confused with virtual reality, though they differ considerably. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In one scene a small-town sheriff is heard muttering about this newfangled contraption called a Walkman, which points down a “slippery slope” of juvenile distraction. | 'Super 8': Hey, Guys, Let?s Make a Monster Flick 2011-06-09T15:28:58Z There were slippery slopes, faulty analogies, straw men galore and the gleeful identifying of said fallacies that is endemic to any message board flame war. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z "He was a slippery character to be sure," said Kline of Flynn. Kevin Kline takes on Errol Flynn and 'My Old Lady' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z In terms of your “slippery slope” concern, I empathize. The debate: should Spotify ban R Kelly and Michael Jackson? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z She was so slippery – between four hands we could barely catch her but, together, we did and laid her on my thighs, then I fed her. Experience: I had a free birth 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z And certainly it’s a slippery slope when we start to criticize scripted shows for being insufficiently realistic. “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z So goes the slippery slope to “politicization” that most have found themselves on at one point or another. One of the Most Perilous Jobs in Government 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But borrowing from the Mother Tongue can be a slippery slope into absurdity, said David Coggins, a writer who lives in the West Village. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z It takes him an hour, “as the way is for the most part on slippery mud.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Then the media gave her 40 whacks, for her family values, her love of God, her slippery grasp of facts; and, just like that, the ticket was doomed by the elitist, socialist punditocracy. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z To the Orthodox community in which I was raised, the slippery slope of American secularism was made far more slippery by legumes on Passover. And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Taste, he ventured, is more slippery than we might think, and inextricably bound up with what we’re seeing, hearing and thinking. How to Eat Dinner Like the Last Citizens of Pompeii 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z And as a business matter, censoring Mr. Rogan could alienate his legion of fans and set a slippery precedent with other podcasters, according to Mark Mulligan, an industry analyst with Midia Research. Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Knoll said he and his colleagues were aware of the “slippery slope argument,” that their simulated Cushing was opening the door to more and more movies using digital reproductions of dead actors. How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The completed project, captured on 70 canisters of donated 16-millimeter film, was then relinquished to its director: a slippery, middle-aged American film teacher named Georges Cardona. Review: In ‘Shirkers,’ Stolen Footage and Dashed Dreams 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Things only get more slippery as Mr. Ojo goes on to arrange prop handcuffs, chrome-plated music stands, replica pistols, open Swiss Army knives, and other tools with reflective surfaces in minimal but well-ordered piles. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Every few minutes, his father would attempt to catch his slippery body in the net of his hands. On a Baltic Sea cruise, board in Sweden and wake up in Latvia — then do it in reverse 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z But the highlight for kids is also inside the biggest berg: a double slide that isn’t particularly high but was quite slippery, according to young visitors. National Building Museum debuts cool summer spectacle ‘Icebergs’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Bill Clinton conversations are slippery because 20 years later, we are still wrestling with how to judge the events of less-woke eras. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z There are slippery trios for the women, like silken knots unbraiding; a duet for two men is tauter, more elastic. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z What exactly they deserve to be paid, however, remains a slippery question. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z Airport personnel were aware of the inclement weather, he said, treating the taxiway with sand and alerting pilots of the slippery conditions. Delta flight slides off taxiway at Wisconsin airport amid 'icy conditions' 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “We are now mid-slope on the slippery slope of design by committee,” she said. Eisenhower Memorial clears key hurdle on Gehry design Bridge's modernist connections were then underlined with Alban Berg's Der Wein, in which Claire Booth was the exemplary soprano soloist, handling the slippery vocal lines as if there was nothing remotely challenging about them. Prom 19: BBCSO/Knussen ? review 2011-07-31T17:05:00Z For this class, the studio is covered in panels the size of yoga mats but slippery. Are Cold Workouts the New Hot Yoga? 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z For Sonny, Burma proves a slippery, duplicitous place, but it is also, Fountain takes pains to point out, a real place inhabited by real people, not just a freakshow lying beyond the homeland's borders. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review 2013-06-29T08:00:19Z “Usually when you do the ‘slippery slope’ argument, you like to end it in something bad,” he said. “Archaic symbol of racist insurrection”: Jon Stewart destroys logic of Confederate flag supporters 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The proceedings are beautifully lit by Chahine Yavroyan, conjuring the shimmering blues and greens of the sea and the slippery shapes of darting fishes. The Lady from the Sea ? review 2010-10-19T20:30:00Z Almost immediately the pianos, backed by various instruments, play a slippery theme in chords that dip and rise almost step by step. Review: Philip Glass Comes, Finally, to the New York Philharmonic 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z In between are questions about education, money, dream jobs and retirement, all circling around that slippery thing, value. Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z But Michael B Jordan’s Creed is a lot more slippery and supple than Rocky, allowing for several shades of grey that simply weren’t there first time around. Creed 2: how will a Russia-baiting Rocky sequel play in Trump's America? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z From satisfyingly slippery noodles to toasted sesame oil to umami-packed ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms and soy sauce, there are no weak links in this slow-cooked soup recipe. 33 best vegetarian soup recipes because baby, it’s cold outside 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z I was wearing fishnets, so going up and down the pole was kind of slippery. Julianne Hough on Pole Dancing, Rock of Ages, and Stealing from Harry Potter 2012-06-15T12:30:58Z By adding vegetables in the form of eggplant caponata, bookending the meaty filling, I made sure there was no chance of a slippery mess. This crowd-pleasing sandwich is made to last — and to pack 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The Wooster Group brought it to the Edinburgh international festival two years ago, in a slippery yet hypnotic production that emphasised the queer otherness of Williams' characters. Vieux Carré – review 2012-07-20T14:42:31Z It’s slippery, but as someone wise once said, you can’t hide a passionless base. Critic’s Notebook: Paul Taylor Dance at Koch Theater 2014-03-23T21:28:46Z Thank you for highlighting this because I don't think it's talked about enough and it was really, really a slippery slope for me, how religion informed my OCD. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Modernity, you notice, and not modernism with its slippery definition and advanced aesthetics; this is a show with a biographical thrust. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z In addition, the narrow trail is slippery and unstable. Black, red, green: Hawaii beaches aren’t just golden 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “The tone — it’s really slippery, isn’t it?” the director says of the old melodrama, in a line you may think of later on. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z In the world of slippery dumplings, there are many variations. Delmarva’s slippery dumplings are right at home in a soupy bowl of chicken 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z I was about 10 feet up on the face, which was slippery and almost perpendicular. How we made Deliverance 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z They felt slippery, and my upper arms were beginning to get sticky as the blood started to freeze. Earning my EMS passage: All EMTs have one day that changed their lives — this was mine 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It was an act of sheer will to construct a city from nothing on the slippery mud flats of the Camargue marshlands in the mid-13th century. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Almost every line in “Muses” hints at multiple meanings, words being the slippery things that they are. Review: Look, Yes, but Listening Is the Key to ‘The Academy of Muses’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Hart’s dense imagery jumped around, a restless, slippery dream, an indictment of the now. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z One reason for its slippery status, and one reason Ms. Shteir finds the subject fascinating, is that no one quite knows where to file it. Possessed: The Coveter?s Dilemma 2011-07-22T23:27:46Z Tonal Suite is similarly jazzy, and Two Big to Fail combines an almost romantically lilting melody against an edgy pulse, as slippery as an itch you can't scratch. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change 2010-09-02T21:01:00Z Like many of his contemporaries, Mr. Caballero prefers a shorter soak, just long enough to infiltrate the seafood and slightly roughen its slippery texture. Life at Caleta 111 Revolves Around Limes and Tiger’s Milk 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z His fluent, slippery feet buckled but never lost their grip. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z But I think this is all a very slippery slope, obviously. Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle 2011-12-20T16:15:11Z We can end up on the slippery slope toward such battles without even noticing. Infallibility battles: How to avoid those ‘I’m right and you’re wrong about everything’ fights 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Authenticity is a notoriously slippery standard of measurement, subject to all manner of bias and oversight. Americanafest NYC at Damrosch Park Bandshell 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The longtime front-line rapport between Mr. Alessi and Mr. Coltrane was another power alignment in the band, but by definition a slippery one, the stuff of quick synchronicities and passing frictions. Ravi Coltrane and Company Perform at Jazz Standard 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Our shaman’s office was perilously reached by means of a slippery board laid across 100 yards of deep mud and slime. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z “It’s easy to get on a slippery slope. It’s better to resolve your sleep issues by dealing with the underlying source of stress.” Six ways to stay healthy when you're stressed 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z For each, the draw was Mr. Cherkaoui, the popular Belgian contemporary choreographer whose movement, slippery and fluid, makes use of the entire body; it isn’t typical Broadway ta-da. Don’t Box Them In. Their Dancing Belongs to the World. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And thus the slippery slope was oiled by the best intentions, and down everyone slid. The Red Carpet Is Its Own Economy 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The broth is life-affirming, and the flesh presented alongside slippery skin, the fat half melting. A Soup That Needs No Accompaniment at Just Pho 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z If we’re worried about a slippery slope scenario in which this precedent will lead to other artists having their art removed for different moral violations, I’m not sure that concern is well founded. The debate: should Spotify ban R Kelly and Michael Jackson? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z For the beef noodle soup, I liked the flat white bands made of rice flour, slippery with a bit of stretch. At Happy Stony Noodle, a Childhood Favorite Anchors the Menu 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Thanks to the slippery feminism of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Brosnahan has already ensured she is part of a giant leap in that direction. ‘It’s about a woman finding her voice’: Mrs Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan on great roles – and controversial men 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Her innocence authorizes its slippery and simplistic handling of complicated themes. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The terms “best,” “favorite,” “acclaimed” and “popular” are slippery, but they aren’t useless. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z “The Fifth Estate,” in which he perfectly captures the slippery nature of Julian Assange — free-speech hero, treacherous colleague, possible megalomaniac — had just come out. T Magazine: The Case of the Accidental Superstar 2014-03-07T14:00:51Z After a few years in Taylor’s ensemble, Mr. Shepp began recording on his own, mixing poetry with a warbling and slippery saxophone sound. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But the Yiannopoulos controversy is made harder to parse by a slippery characteristic of contemporary book publishing: the sheer size of publishing conglomerates, and the vast, often ideologically contradictory, array of books that they peddle. Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Like Noah Cross, these characters, given the right time and place, are capable of anything, and their progression down the slippery slope to soul-destroying compromise is a fascinating journey. 'Dirty' takes on the slippery slope of compromise 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The drawings — women’s faces, awkwardly inked on shiny paper and slippery acetate — aren’t as compelling. Art in Review: MICKALENE THOMAS: ?More Than Everything? 2011-10-20T18:58:09Z From the novel’s opening, race is slippery, uneasy and unstable. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z However, it’s disingenuous to pretend there isn’t a slippery slope here. The debate: should Spotify ban R Kelly and Michael Jackson? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The three main women pose and whisper, displaying themselves or playing little games as they move through cycles of slippery, carefully calibrated snippets of movement. Dance Review: New Ideas Between Twists and Turns 2011-03-18T22:04:29Z Its central role for Taylor Stanley, a mixed-race dancer, was mercurial, slippery, hard to classify. Kyle Abraham Wants You to See Another Side of Misty Copeland 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Both her therapist and her father are complicated, slippery characters, and through Jeanie’s relationships with them, and her relationships with her married lover and her missing twin brother, the plot folds into a brilliant twist. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Does that mean theater, with its fictions and slippery frames and glorifying spotlight, is a bad place to think about Putin? Washington theaters shine a spotlight on Vladimir Putin 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It was a precarious walk on slippery stones, and rain was beginning to fall, but finally, the waterfall appeared. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z These slippery characters only got together last year and they like to combine the electronic with the organic, mixing new-fangled programming with good old-fashioned instrument-bashing. New band of the day ? No 839: Superhumanoids 2010-08-03T16:12:00Z Mr. Carter, one of the most recorded and widely respected jazz musicians, is known for his slippery, free-ranging bass playing and tireless precision. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z There’s barely any room to breathe here, and the album, which lacks some of the slippery intuitiveness of Mr. Greene’s earlier work, gets better as it becomes darker. Critic's Notebook: Going Into the Haze in Their Debut Albums 2011-07-12T22:59:41Z But if there’s a theme in “The Personality Brokers,” woven throughout and never belabored, it’s that the self is more slippery than we allow. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The program also seems to attract slippery interference from the powers that be. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z He has taken the trouble to read the literature and track down the living descendants of the Wild Bunch in order to get the slippery details as straight as he can. Behind the Legend of Butch Cassidy 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Other architects say such changes represent a slippery slope; allow escalators to be moved and eventually a landmark isn’t a landmark anymore. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Landmark Battle 2011-09-29T00:12:21Z The exhibition brings to life a wide range of subjects, from the barren, windswept landscapes of her home country to the slippery insides of Bjork's own mouth as she sings the track "Mouthmantra." Interactive exhibition features work of Icelandic singer Bjork 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z As slippery, unlikable and thoroughly corrupt as any screen president, Logan nevertheless possessed an oily charisma that could propel him far in this contest. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It was a slippery slope of weeks of good times, then the mean zinger or insult. Ask Amy: Couple decides on deep-freeze to break up friendship 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Otherwise, this book brims with slippery sentences that reach their truths like rivers finding the sea. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z And those right places capitalize on their ability to shape our minds with slippery, imperious moves that are only slightly more veiled than the company store. Thirsty in West Virginia 2014-01-19T00:00:00Z Without a solid sheet of slippery ice on the chute, and the pond, there can be no toboggan races in this seaside community set on the rocky Atlantic coast 190 miles north of Boston. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Early on in the film, Benjamin asks his students to define “presence,” that slippery quality that only true stars possess. ‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The slope is far too slippery for me. Addiction isn’t “fun”: The problem with moderation manifestoes 2014-03-03T23:59:00Z Sheeran rounds into form when he uses his softness to his advantage, cocooning himself in layers of warm harmony and setting that slippery, surprisingly agile lyricism against slowly building arrangements. REVIEW: Ed Sheeran Multiplies His Appeal on x 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Boesman’s score is an exuberant, slippery mix of styles, full of onomatopoeic effects and witty allusions. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I tried not to wince as I felt its texture: warm, slippery, squidgy. In Scotland, Guts, Glory and Haggis 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z I plan to try it the next time my bricks get slippery. Slippery brick walkway? That means algae. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The telephone was slippery with sweat in my hand, and I feared my mother was listening from another receiver. “Hey, I’m Peter”: On living with a gay voice 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The most recent piece on the album — “The Navigator,” which concludes this set — is a magnum opus of slippery, sinuous invention. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z “The car hood was slippery,” she writes, “so we used our bare feet for traction,” one of many well-chosen details that breezily bring the reader into her private and public domains. Review: ‘Yes Please,’ by Amy Poehler A few weeks after Spotify proclaimed that "canceling voices is a slippery slope" in a statement, the platform is proving its inability to enforce its own rules with another troubling case. Spotify quietly removes several Alex Jones episodes that have been mysteriously uploaded recently 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z A chhonk made with cumin seeds, star anise, and chili flakes provided spice and texture in a dish of slippery ramen in miso broth mimicking the chili oil that is often served alongside the soup. Chhonk, the Indian Spice Infusion That Enlivens Most Anything 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In some sense, I suppose, that shows restraint, since parents often try to remove such books from classrooms, but it’s a slippery slope from here to there. Keeping literature dirty 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s a funny little game to play and it’s a slippery slope. Kristen Stewart’s stunning apology 2012-07-26T13:50:00Z For me that weakness provides a perverse sort of hope: Ruscha remains an elusive artist and Los Angeles an elusive city, each of them slippery to the last. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Layton does a nifty job of blending all these characters and perspectives, but so much of the film consists of highly subjective dramatized reenactments that it makes an already confusing story feel even more slippery. He fooled a missing teenager’s family — or did he? 2012-07-17T21:15:00Z Arguing about the slippery slope is, of course, itself a way of acknowledging it. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z That this slippery narration — a risky choice — not only propels the story forward but also resonates with the book’s themes of instability and skewed perception is a testament to Dragoman’s powers. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z He is sheltered and quiet, quite slippery in a way. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z And yet, in this year particularly, that task was as slippery as it’s ever been. Popcast: What Will We Be Listening to This Fall? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Of course it also refers those original three little words that have led untold millions onto the slippery slope of commitment, a concept that Ms. Maggart approaches in all her shows with a deep ambivalence. Music Review: Maude Maggart Explores Love at the Oak Room 2010-04-14T21:17:00Z For 15 or 20 minutes, we attempted to climb back up only to find the lack of handholds, slippery surfaces and the angle of the rocks seemingly beyond our capabilities. Two hikers blaze their own trail at Utah’s Arches National Park 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In hindsight, that show appears more of a special case than the beginning of a slippery slope. Is There an Epidemic of Nudity on Primetime TV? 2013-06-10T17:18:38Z Full of garlic, celery, carrots and noodles simmered until so soft and slippery that chewing is hardly required; it’s pure childhood comfort for me. This Scottish Chicken Soup Is Its Own Kind of Medicine 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Tyler’s face alone is worthy of a weekly show, loose skin slippery over a distant skeleton. Arts & Leisure Preview: Steven Tyler Escapes From Idolatry 2011-02-09T16:50:05Z Each note, even in a fast run, was precisely considered: a slippery smooth note followed by a diamond-hard one. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s a book about memory suppression, and about the slippery nature of identity itself, slapped together from docile facts and devious fictions. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He has a slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men onscreen and onstage with equal ease. Ben Whishaw Makes Himself at Home in New York 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It is a story about a slippery slope.” ‘(Dis)Honesty — The Truth About Lies’ Examines How Falsehoods Sprout 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The slippery force of the album speaks to their rapport. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z Capturing the slippery essence of everyday living in this fashion is quite a bit more difficult than it first seems, especially when executed via people as handcuffed by inarticulateness as these. Story collections by Thomas McGuane, Luis Alberto Urrea and Graham Swift 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The crucial factor was Mr. Blade, a more muted and slippery drummer than Mr. Corea usually employs. Music Review: A Musical Home With Three Sides 2010-10-01T23:02:00Z It was slippery, filled with thorns, and steep. Your phone can't save you now: On Buddhism, technology and the alleged supremacy of the mind 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z They are surrounded by a solid company, even if some accents get slippery in the London scenes. ‘The Vagrant Trilogy’ Review: Palestinians in Exile, Yearning for Home 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Lynch takes a cigarette, lights up and inspects his work table, perhaps wishing he could express himself with the gel formula cement rather than these slippery, inadequate words. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z They continued once she joined him in the stage area, as his body shuddered through its own cycle of hinging, slippery bursts. Dance Review: A Duet, Delicately Spun And Formally Elegant 2011-01-27T23:10:29Z With its portrait of America in extremis after the shock of Pearl Harbor, the novel offers sobering parallels to today, like the demonization of immigrants, the rise of America-first nationalism, the slippery nature of truth. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z If sugar consumption is a slippery slope, then advocating moderation is not a meaningful concept. Is sugar the world’s most popular drug? | Gary Taubes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The funny clip shows the slippery customer run through the doors from the street and past the registers — giving the cashier a shock. Otter filmed running through supermarket in Ireland 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Dawn used to be the enemy,” he recalled, as we descended a steep slope of slippery rocks. Bright Lights? Dimmer. Big City? More Distant. 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It all represents, for purists and fans alike, something of a slippery slope. The devil is in Blu-ray's detail 2010-08-31T08:15:00Z A person’s relationship to sobriety can be one slippery eel. TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Race ends up seeming both slippery and essential. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Nor was it hip-hop that supplied him with his sound, but rather UK garage, that descendant of house music, with its warped basslines, slippery beats and bling image. The end of the Streets 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z Yet while these three are variations on the original holy trinity, part of what makes them contemporary isn’t just their skin colors but also the slippery playfulness of their roles. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Delivers the Thrills, With a Touch of Humanity 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It was in this period that he produced – though he might have preferred caught – clutch after clutch of poems, slippery and pristine as the dream salmon he sometimes encountered on his nights in town. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z So when you talk about people who believe the NRA’s rhetoric, that any kind of gun law is a slippery slope to confiscation or overturning the Second Amendment, that is a very vocal minority. ‘The NRA is weaker than they’ve ever been,’ says founder of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Don’t let the benches made from salvaged wood fool you: this oasis, designed for ages 5 to 12, requires on-your-feet supervision, with its slippery rocks and elevated deck. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z But “harassment” is a slippery word, especially on Twitter, whose architecture turns public posts into personal messages. Censoring Twitter 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The combination of crackling skin, succulent flesh and slippery noodles is one I plan to revisit. The Trump Hotel restaurant: Gilded touches on yet another steakhouse 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z As I wrote in October, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, there is a slippery slope separating a Nazi and anyone who is willing to play on stereotypes about Jewish people in general. Watching Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" in the Trump era 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z One imagines that the artist was too slippery or contradictory for the museum, too much of a prankster and publicity hound. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But with Pamela’s help, perhaps real freedom is a possibility, and our slippery mammal can one day flap out into the welcoming waters of Knightsbridge for good. The ballad of Pammy and Julian Assange - her poor, mournful sea lion 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “I put them on and pick up a book and sort of jiggle myself around, to see how slippery they are,” she said. For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z There are moments when what sounds like an echo of that slippery opening theme emerges: The pianos try to catch hold of the tune and pin it down. Review: Philip Glass Comes, Finally, to the New York Philharmonic 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z What makes her so slippery is that she is so wide-ranging. The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono 2012-06-08T15:40:20Z “Something in the Dirt” is one of those weird little surprises sometimes found skulking in the crannies of mainstream film festivals, slippery and screwy and impossible to categorize. ‘Something in the Dirt’ Review: The Truth Is Over There, by the Sofa 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Modelling is hard and strange in slippery ways. Edie Campbell: ‘I was told I was too fat to open Milan Fashion Week’ 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The slippery slope is firmly constructed from a long national and international public record. Review | Schenkkan’s ‘Wall’ imagines Trump consequences. Disaster! 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The suit’s smoothness felt satiny and delightful against the sleeping bag’s slippery insides: a hot dog in a bun. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z “The picture slides from my mind, slippery as wet spaghetti,” Zoe exclaims at one point, which is a simile with as much literary merit as wet spaghetti. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Judging art by the foibles of the artist is a slippery slope to banality. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z There is no way that Nan Goldin took prescription opiates for wrist pain 2014 ignorant of the slippery slope she was about to embark on. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It's a slippery slope from a shooting match along the lines of the film "The Favourite," to angrily then grudgingly working together, then to making out in the wreckage of a plane. "Yellowjackets" unapologetically follows YA logic, from the Big Dance to bitter betrayals 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z His is a book in which the words “I” and “we” are slippery indeed. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Had Strong Opinions About Appalachians. Now, Appalachians Return the Favor. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Well, the wonder of this would-be summer action hit, which manages the neat trick of being slippery and deceptive without possessing the least intellectual ambition, is that the description fits both flavors of Salt. "Salt": Angelina Jolie's dazzling action spectacle 2010-07-22T11:01:00Z The boundary between body and world is firm and yet slippery. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The slippery slope here is that you will start to limit yourself further and further, until your guy’s jealousy and anger controls your every move. Perspective | Ask Amy: Live-in boyfriend is suspicious of her every move 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z With its non-linear structure and final act aha moment, and its fascination with the slippery nature of identity and memory, Following announces with remarkable clarity the career that would follow. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “But I can’t use my point shoes, because the floor is made of stone, and it’s slippery. We can’t do many jumps either.” In Italy, ‘Io Resto a Casa,’ but Still I Dance 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Lyrically, “Remain in Light” runs to slippery, often nonsensical stream of consciousness style musings that sometimes descend into paranoia or despair. How Angelique Kidjo’s love of a Talking Heads classic turned into one of the year’s most vibrant albums 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Bathed in a shadowy beauty and slippery psychological atmosphere, “Beast” soars on Ms. Buckley’s increasingly animalistic performance. Review: A Troubled Beauty and a Mysterious ‘Beast’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Prepare to endure bad beginnings, survive a carnivorous carnival and climb slippery slopes. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It's a fertile but inherently slippery zone to work in, especially if you're trying to construct a densely argued thesis, as Phillips is. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z It sounded like a cat scampering on a slippery counter. Panic! At the vasectomy table 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The pelting rain made the trail slippery, and our BDUs stuck to our skins. Best of Salon: Army of one, soldiers undone: The hope that died in basic training 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Joyce also succeeds in revealing very opposing sides of Annie’s slippery character. In ‘Our New Girl,’ a Household Is Under Stress 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z She finds them easier to handle with her arthritic hands than the fancy kind, which are too slippery. Cecilia Chiang, a Pioneering Restaurateur, Marks a Century of Flavors 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “I grew up in the countryside of southern Korea, and there were a lot of slippery rocks along the riverbed,” he said, explaining his surefootedness. Squeezing Essence From a Stone 2011-06-23T22:47:00Z It was the early 1980s, and his family’s pantry was mostly stocked with government commodities: cereal, shortening and canned hash with the slippery texture of dog food, as Mr. Sherman remembers it. The Movement to Define Native American Cuisine 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z This is not an easy watch – it's cerebral, dourly Germanic, and downright slippery, as if you've been thrown into a linguistic plunge pool. Kaspar - review 2011-01-21T18:12:19Z On the one hand, it’s a terrifying look at capitalism’s slippery slopes and a realistic depiction of how a person’s will can shrivel into apathy and fear. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Some commentators go so far as to say that her slippery renditions of modern art's highlights are opportunistic instances of a postmodern pasticher trying to ride the coattails of famous modernists. 'Sturtevant: Double Trouble' show at MOCA will dispel misinterpretations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z What I fault him for was plunging down a slippery ethical slope from which there is no return. How BuzzFeed crossed the line in publishing salacious ‘dossier’ on Trump 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The first section, “Venezia notturno,” opens with glassy, slippery sounds that evoke Venice’s canals; the different layers assigned each player seem wholly separate until they unexpectedly converge into moments of rich, unison melody. Review: The Jack and the Calder Quartet in Concert 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z If there’s a theme in this book, woven throughout and never belabored, it’s that the self is more slippery than we allow. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Witt called Mr. Trump’s warning of a slippery slope a “red herring.” Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Those icy sidewalks — and those characters — are awfully slippery. Greg Kinnear slips into character as a swindler on 'Thin Ice' 2012-02-16T21:35:11Z The results of friction tests showed that the new material dunked in water was far more slippery than conventional latex and water, and only slightly less slippery than latex smothered in lubricants. Self-lubricating condom design may encourage safe sex 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z OUR second day began with a slippery walk across kelp-covered rocks along the shoreline. U.S. Issue: It?s a Bear?s World in Kodiak, Alaska 2011-05-13T20:16:28Z At times he slipped past spoken word into something more slippery and evanescent, involving words but not structure. Music Review: The Rapper DMX Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-02-25T00:09:39Z To watch France’s latest is to be confronted by the moral dimensions of documentary filmmaking — and maybe something deeper, concerning the slippery nature of identity itself. Deepfake Technology Enters the Documentary World 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z A solo piano recital of magisterial authority; a poetry reading of slippery connotation; a headstrong renewal of purpose, served under the guise of retrospection. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z Perhaps Americans feel powerless in an era of gushing oil, ongoing wars and a slippery economy, and want to believe that the little people can vanquish the big bad guys. Noticed: The New Power of Petite Women 2010-06-25T21:44:00Z With considerable elegance, Field worries about the status of live art – with all its "error-strewn otherness, its slippery relationship to authorship and originality, its theatrical unreliability" – in such straightlaced, institutional surroundings. Noises off: do institutions kill art? And radical theatre lives! 2012-07-13T12:13:09Z This argument holds that there’s a slippery slope—that what’s true about Wilson is equally true about many of the other men for whom campus buildings are named. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z According to Buchanan, an improved range of motion in your joints helps you safely navigate hilly, uneven, rocky and/or slippery surfaces. Indoor exercises to prepare you for hiking the great outdoors 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Opposite a grove of hemlock trees, a group of teenage boys tried to climb the slippery rocks without much luck. South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, N.J. 2012-07-12T21:26:53Z Halfway down the slippery steps to the seaside Haedongyonggung Temple, Mom and I made an executive decision to head back to the car. Seeing Korea through his parents’ eyes This was when Mr. Rylance became a contender for the slippery title of “greatest actor of his generation.” A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The only downside is getting up afterward on that slippery Mylar sheet you’ve been cocooned in. Day Spas in Manhattan: an Urban Oasis 2012-02-16T23:11:33Z It’s a slippery slope and I was throwing down the Crisco. Clint and Ron Howard Remember When They Were Just ‘The Boys’ 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a slippery slope to doggy bags at a state dinner. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-12-22T21:08:49Z The magic happens when they’re cooked in liquid: they quickly soften, swell, and turn translucent and slippery smooth. Tapioca is comforting goodness in a bowl 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The noodles wait below, as thick as spaghetti, slippery but still springy. Rice Noodles Stretching From Guangxi to the East Village 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z She is aware of the slippery slope that intense and prolonged attention can lead to. Renate Reinsve Steps, Reluctantly, Into the Spotlight 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z For a minute I teetered on a slippery spot, blindly, and it took several moments for me to regain my balance on my feet. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z These are slippery and white inside their soft shells, which are covered in chiles, lime juice and herbs. At Amácita, Tex-Mex Deftly Adapts to Los Angeles 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “It feels like a less direct threat because it is less visceral but there is a real danger of a slippery slope where the technology will be used for minor infractions and not enforced equally.” Do Not Resist: new film shows how US police have become an occupying army 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Enter the NRA, who worried that this amendment would be a “slippery slope” downward to “regulated shooting grounds.” “Dogs and cats have to die”: Stephen Colbert sums up latest insane NRA crusade 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z “Everyone will see something different. Meaning in photography is slippery; everyone brings to it what they want.” ‘You Can’t Stand in Louisiana and See a Glacier’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The ramp thrown down from the landing-craft was steep and slippery, and I fell chest-deep into the sea lapping the mined beaches. D-Day Dispatch: The first reporter on the beach 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps nowhere more than in Mr. Martínez’s novel “Santa Evita” did fact and fancy conspire to capture the slippery reality of Argentina. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z But an unease persists and grows through it all, as Francisco turns into a slippery, morally ambiguous figure. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “What an incredible story,” White marveled, no doubt jealous of a narrative that brought together slippery notions of identity, misleading your audience, dubious Romanians. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z In a recent memo to employees, Mr. Ek wrote that “canceling voices is a slippery slope” but acknowledged that a number of episodes of Mr. Rogan’s show had been removed from the platform. Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “He was slippery for many years at the end.” Death of a Downtown Icon: Remembering Benjamin Cho 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Far from backing off, journalists should hone their questioning skills and find new ways to pin down this particularly slippery administration. Perspective | NBC’s questioning of Ivanka Trump was more than appropriate. It should be just the start. 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The life-altering peculiarities of the American immigration system collide, in Hunter East Harlem Gallery’s group show “The Extraordinary,” with the slippery problem of defining artistic success. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Duets are slippery and unresolved, solos are fractured. With ‘Bowie & Queen’ Washington Ballet brings solace to goodbye 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Still, there’s a slippery line between exposing epistemological uncertainty and imposing it. Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z I assume that Harold was written as a slippery character, but Mr. Baldwin’s performance eludes the possibility of our getting any kind of grip on it at all. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z It’s opaquely menacing, but slippery — are there militaristic undertones? veiled appeals to whiteness? echoes of Stalingrad or raves in Eastern Bloc bunkers? Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z There’s not much distinctive movement in “O Zlozony,” let alone anything of Ms. Brown’s characteristically slippery, skittering style with its unpredictable impulses and loose, fluid transitions. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z “He was so elusive, so slippery, the cops had trouble even finding his corpse,” The Post’s Joel Achenbach wrote. Remembering when designer Gianni Versace was killed 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z She’s a slippery subject; but her impulse to punch holes in confining walls of all kinds was emphatic and deep-seated, and is more than welcome right now. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Talk about your slippery slope that hasn't leveled out yet. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Clear and present danger is far from optimal, but the crew of the Sentinel military watch tower would probably take it to the elusive and slippery danger they face. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z They wrap themselves around the female’s protruding torso and use her side as a slippery slide for their pleasure. Sex in the sea: What we can learn from underwater orgies, beach sand bondage and kinky lobster courtship 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z They encouraged me even more to explore an issue that I found slippery and abstract at first, but that gradually took on a clearer form. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z “It’s a dangerous step down a slippery slope,” Mr. Keillor said, counseling Mr. Dicterow about the potentially uncomfortable deference and solicitude looming ahead. Music Review: Garrison Keillor With the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-17T22:06:47Z Companies started using the material on tabletop sewing machines because it’s slippery, letting fabric move over it quickly. Laminate counters look a lot better than they did in the ’80s. Can they make a comeback? 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Morality, after all, is a slippery slope and nowhere more, perhaps, than in regard to art, to literature, which begins as the expression of a single heart, a single mind. Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z For this show, the group teams up with Kimbra, the New Zealand pop eclectic now touring behind her own stylistically slippery album, “The Golden Echo.” Jazz Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Is this the slippery slope of casualness, or can you wear sneakers stylishly? Sneakers: Where Can’t They Go? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Putting tender muscle on the bone between them is Knuffke, with his sandy vibrato and slippery tone. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Graphite is a marvelous material to work with; slippery and fine and deeply insinuating. The craft that consumed me 2012-08-10T14:59:00Z Before long it’s too steep and slippery to proceed by splitboard so I strap it to my backpack, put crampons over my boots, and Mikal hands me an ice axe for stability. From summit to sea: a snowboarding adventure in the Arctic Circle 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z This might be an editing error but it kind of works as a quality of this slippery character. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z They can be slippery, so anyone less than sure-footed will need to walk with care. Art We Saw This Summer 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Sadly, this has done nothing to help varieties such as slippery jack, stinkhorn or shaggy ink cap on to our dinner tables. Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for shiitake pho with crispy leeks 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Faleiro has a talent for ramifying plots and slippery characters — for a narrative that resists easy formulation. A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation. New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Yale to Nick Flynn and More 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z LINDSEYOIL: A slippery substance that keeps the wheels greased in Washington. Style Invitational Week 1406: The news could be verse 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Spongy panels of skin cling to the meat; the texture is intentionally slippery. Khao Man Gai, Rich, Heady and as Good as Its Rice 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In the theater, and perhaps in life, Mr. Gordon seems to posit that illusion is reliable — reality is the slippery one. Dance Review: ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ at Joyce SoHo 2012-06-07T21:56:16Z The three-plus-mile trail is slippery in rainy conditions, is subject to rockfalls and landslides, and narrows to a few feet in some spots. The site of an 1860s leper colony on Molokai island draws determined travelers 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that the literal truth is a slippery thing in Iran, and language is the last place you should go looking for it. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z One bather, standing in a slippery tub, balances precariously on her left wrist and big toe. Art Review: ?Degas and the Nude? at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-10-20T20:19:22Z There is no assured path, but an actor must somehow clarify Macbeth's slippery interior journey. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Something about losing control of that slippery tongue. Chrissy Teigen was trippin' -- on a raw cashew nut 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But it is also a heightened exploration of how several generations of fully realized female characters clamber for control and identity in the dense, slippery politics of home and office. Cultural Studies: ?The Good Wife? and Its Women 2011-04-30T04:37:02Z But in conjuring a fantastical slippery slope in which technology, pharmaceuticals and the entertainment industry co-star in a takeover of our lives, "The Congress" boasts a propulsive image-making pull. 'The Congress' envisions a future dystopian virtual reality 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Our path turned into sand, then slippery mud as we entered the appropriately named Soapmaker’s Pass. Explorer: Mexico City: Hiking Mecca? 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z Summoning the U.S. government to counter these social media behemoths is the proverbial slippery slope. I’m a First Amendment scholar — and I think Big Tech should be left alone 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Thanks to "Ironic," one of the album's bestselling singles, Morissette took plenty of ribbing—especially from English majors like myself—over her slippery definition of the term. How "Jagged Little Pill" became Alanis Morissette's legendary breakout 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Before the picture is over, though, the meaning of those cuts seems, like everything else in this slippery movie, to change. Rod Lurie Remakes Peckinpah?s ?Straw Dogs? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z I couldn’t write about now, I felt, because it was so ... slippery. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z I spent an hour inching my way up slippery roads, through snow only a few other cars appeared to have driven on, until I finally reached the Crater Lake entrance — which was closed. Place 13 of 52: On the Water, and Off, the Rogue River in Oregon Charms 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z But with its gorgeous combination of crunchy vegetables, slippery noodles and heady sauce, no one will ever guess it all started in a jar. The Secret to Better Thai Dishes May Already Be in Your Fridge 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Fashion is now on a slippery slope of its own making that began with Tom Ford’s departure from Gucci Group in 2003. Fashion Creates a Slippery Slope of Designer Departures 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In her acceptance speech, Joan Baez unequivocally distanced herself from rock and roll, while still acknowledging the slippery nature of influence. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is Still Alive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z That’s easier said than done, and “Giovanni” — long, circular, slippery — is one of the hardest assignments for an opera director, with attempts tending to fall into either unremitting dreariness or irritating glibness. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z “Us Chinese, we love the slippery and the slimy, like tendon and jelly fish,” he said. Is America Ready to Love Cottage Cheese Again? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s wholly turbulent yet far from barbaric: despite the slippery carpet below, it is a politely non-jostling, giddily absurd melee of bodies. Blade Rave: the club night where blood rains from the ceiling 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z |
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