Tahari, an Israeli orphan with a rough-and-tumble youth, had found success early, but he got stuck in the quicksand of New York nightlife.
Yet USC sunk deeper and deeper into the quicksand of its own arrogance, until it realized that all it had accomplished had only come about because of broken rules and scorched earth.
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Mr Lochhead concluded: "We must be released from the regulatory quicksand which is threatening to drown our industry" and he said he was "hopeful" he could achieve a positive result at the fisheries council.
The case has already created political quicksand for Republicans just as the mayoral race is heating up and might have a second act in Albany, where the investigation is reviving corruption as a hot-button concern after Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigned on pledges to rout it out.
It's just that Nokia may have shot itself in the foot, succumbing to the hazards of hyperbolic quicksand far ahead of launch day.
Barkha Dutt of New Delhi Television (NDTV), a prolific Twitter user herself, said that the site had "become a quicksand of poison, bigotry and malice".
So it goes with RadioShack, the struggling consumer electronics firm that seems to sink further into quicksand with each move it makes, as it attempts to keep up with Circuit City and Best Buy.
Professor SAPOLSKY: I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.
On the contrary, I think we're going to get stuck in quicksand.
Instead, the bewildering array of choices confuses consumers, convinces them that the decision is more important than it really is, and promotes decision quicksand.
Then listen to the extraordinary chromatic lines in the strings and winds, sounding like someone trying to work his way through quicksand (audio).
There are a few signs, but these treacherous shoals wrap around the entire coastline of Anchorageand look like inviting beaches, but are laced with quicksand.
The road to women's equality, it turns out, is paved with potholes, quicksand and death traps.
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