Word: crutched
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This would be fine, except everybody knows the ball is going to Mitchell. The Crimson needs to have another go-to gun that it can rely on. It cannot win using Mitchell as a clutch crutch...
...everyone, sampling may well be a permanent part of the musical landscape. And what's wrong with that? The arts have a long tradition of allusion and quotation, often with resonant effects. In pop music the only danger of sampling is that performers will use it as a crutch for the imagination, rather than a tool to help liberate...
...Masson case is a reminder that the accuracy and wisdom of a piece of journalism inevitably depends on "the author's own observations and conclusions," as Judge Kozinski puts it. It is often more efficient, not to say more honest, to express these directly. Quotes can become a crutch. Or rather, "Quotes can become a crutch," says one observer of the journalistic scene...
During the past two years, Steele has argued in a provocative series of essays that a generation after the Watts riot and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is time for blacks to drop the crutch of racial victimization and rely on their own efforts to gain access to the American mainstream. The opportunities are there, he says. Blacks have only to stop hiding behind racism and take advantage of them. Last May he focused a PBS television special about Bensonhurst on that recurring theme. And next month a collection of his essays will be published...
...person has a broken leg and you give him a crutch, you help him, but if he has two good legs and two arms and you give him a crutch and make him use it, you indeed make him a cripple," she said...