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headlong

[hed-lawng, -long] / ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ /


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Both are directed by Robert Icke, a graduate of Cambridge who has worked in leadership roles at such outstanding London companies as Headlong and Almeida Theatre, the latter founded in 1979 by Audi.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Headlong and Century Films have assembled an extraordinarily talented gang for their 14 short films about lockdown life.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2020

On the roster: Headlong into the mud - Trump promises police reforms, but narrowly - Senate GOP hurries to produce policing bill - Trump to accept re-nomination in Jacksonville - First Atlantis and now this...

From Fox News • Jun. 12, 2020

Headlong, stitched-together, strung out over imaginative rhymes that her sentences rarely have time to acknowledge, many of her poems have the prolonged marvel of Wile E. Coyote running out past the edge of the cliff.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2014

The first edition had a feeble prosaic line in place of the image which Warton admired: Headlong from thence the fury urged her flight, And at the Theban palace did alight.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander




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