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Such banalities as “Memories are magic,” “It’s not a dream, it’s a nightmare” and “you don’t drag me down, you make me soar” typify the leaden nature of the writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
On a pitch that had been under cover for the previous two days, under leaden skies and with showers forecast, England would have been desperate to win the toss.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
But her touch is so heavy that it becomes leaden, almost crushing.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
In the leaden evening he stood leaning with his elbows on the cart handle and looking across the fields at a house perhaps a mile away.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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