brick-wall
Example Sentences
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The power of absence and refusal is perhaps more edifying in literature — see “The Stranger,” “The Quiet Man,” the brick-wall calm of I-would-prefer-not-to Bartleby — than in real life.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
Famed for being rugby’s greatest ad-libbers, Fiji put the razzle-dazzle away and won in a very un-Fijian traditional way: Breakdown domination, brick-wall defense, and relentless commitment for 80 minutes.
From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2023
Last Sunday night, a small crowd gathered at Vermillion, a homey, brick-wall gallery and bar on Capitol Hill, ordered drinks and waited for the lecture to begin.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2019
Alternative Comedy was an early 1990s antidote to the brick-wall conformity symbolizing stand-up in the 1980s.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2015
Wherefore, on a brick-wall have I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
