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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

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 show will be directed by the Almeida's new artistic director, Rupert Goold, who developed the musical with his former company, Headlong.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2013

Headlong in the water falling, With his hands the waves repelling, Thus the man remained in ocean, And the hero on the billows.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)




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