flop sweat

Example Sentences

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But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

Even if you’re not someone who experiences full-blown flop sweat when things go awry, those micro-shifts in sweat content of your skin can indicate different kinds of emotional arousal, including the onset of stress.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

One can actually smell the flop sweat as Larson gives an agonizingly self-indulgent monologue that recounts his failed efforts to get the play that he thought would make his Broadway career get off the ground.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2021

It’s all flop sweat, a sad, desperate attempt to make Tom and Jerry the one thing they never were: cool.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2021

There have been a lot of great miniseries in the past few years that would have been movies covered in flop sweat as recently as five years ago.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2020