Word: slipperyness
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The snowfall, which amounted to six and a half inches by Saturday evening, turned to rain and sleet later that night. Yesterday, roads and sidewalks were slippery, and the wind gusted up to 40 miles per hour.
The sly, sliding sets enhance a pleasing sense of a world turned slippery at the edges, and certainly much has slipped away geopolitically since the play premiered in London six years ago. Although Stoppard has modified the text slightly to presage the downfall of the Soviet Union, his characters continue...
First they ban banners on Holworthy. Next, they remove pictures of naked men from Dudley House, just hours before Silly Sally the Clown is to arrive. Watch the slippery slope...
Under the way the CUE-Crimson relationship currently works, it can theoretically take any interesting or controversial parts of its deliberations off the record. The overused but still relevant "slippery slope" argument applies here--today it's grade inflation, who knows what it'll be tomorrow. The committee's policy...
The plaintiffs allege that Harvard failed to provide a witness that could adequately address how slippery the floor was.