Did I deserve to be sent to the slagheap of history?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Parkinson Foundation Debunks Limbaugh’s False Smears of Michael J. Fox] Reference
Another month, another small slagheap from my visits to used-bookstores. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing Tale: August '09] Reference
Interest in the instrument dissipated, and the Glass Harmonica fell onto the slagheap of musical history. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Harmonica: Stairway to Madness] Reference
After a century of conflict, a dozen worlds had been ravaged, Ashkelon was reduced to a slagheap, and the Sons were all dead, along with over twenty million others. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
But the same headline could be read as Marxist discourse: Google as exploitative capitalist, librarians as honest proletarians, used up and tossed on the slagheap of history. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Chronicle of Higher Ed goes Gothic: Google as Snidely Whiplash] Reference
Still, change is hard and progress often slow, and Chicago's mythopoeic rise out of the industrial slagheap notwithstanding, there is still much left to do, some of it rather pressing. From Wordnik.com. [Riding the Green Zeitgeist in Chicago] Reference
Mr. Suppanen points out the old harbor buildings, the new helicopter pad, an otherworldly slagheap and the pristine coastline with densely forested islands, marveling at the incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [North Stars: Ilkka Suppanen and the New Wit in Finnish Design] Reference
Surprising nearly everyone, this enormous slagheap of debt -- rising up by the side of the glittering new pools of financial wealth -- turned out to be more than just an aesthetic problem. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Abrams: Nationalizing Chrysler] Reference
In July, 2004, p2pnet quoted Janis as saying, “The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay — Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.”. From Wordnik.com. [We don’t sell records,we sell dreams: Janis Ian] Reference
It is cast with a colloquial slant and a neat alliterative end, though there is a sense of the ominous: "On the day of the explosion/Shadows pointed towards the pithead:/In the sun the slagheap slept.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Alchemy] Reference
The mountain, the slagheap gets higher and higher. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque] Reference
Like gemstones found in a slagheap, they come rough and unpolished, in all their native glory. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
Clinton did not want the sanctions to end; he did not want to stop throwing the bodies of dead children on the stinking slagheap. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque] Reference
But, most important of all, it will jettison the moral fabric of our country and its ruling party, onto the stinking slagheap of the arms deal and its cover-up, Oilgate and its cover-up. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Such topsy-turvydom, such historical anarchy, tilts the figure of Mr. Lloyd George into a salience so conspicuous that for a moment one is tempted to confuse prominence with eminence, and to mistake the slagheap of upheaval for the peaks of Olympus. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster] Reference
After 50 years of socialism the Castro brothers 'gangster regime has succeed in turning Cuba, once one of the world's most prosperous countries - into a slagheap that self-opinionated, callous, Hollywood intellectualoids like Soderbergh, del Toro, Robert Redford, Ed Asner. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Australia Outpost] Reference
"Janis Ian 'gets it', in regard to p2p, primarily because she hasn't spent thirty years being mollycoddled by the record companies, and completely lost touch with what's going on." p2pnet quoted Janis as saying, "The Internet, and downloading, are here to stay - Anyone who thinks otherwise should prepare themselves to end up on the slagheap of history.". From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet news] Reference
It’s one more lousy thing to add to my slagheap of problems to obsess over. From Wordnik.com. [weapons of massdistraction › Blog archives] Reference
"Sow a barren waste, a worthless slagheap with lifegiving corn or wheat, inoculate the plants with the. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
"When the whole interior's been stripped - There's nothing but a slagheap in the en - gine room, I tell you, fused metal, carbonized plastic. From Wordnik.com. [Trader To The Stars]
In the sun the slagheap slept. From Wordnik.com. [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference
© slagheap. From Wordnik.com. [Straightfromthedoc] Reference
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