quicksand

“I feel possibility and I feel anger,” Hernandez said, glancing around the park, where the new playground she made possible a few months ago is still fenced off after a fire, and where hobbled and hunched-over people wander as if they’re sinking in quicksand, ghosts of their pre-addiction selves.

But if the governor can doom Amendment 4 by silencing speech now, he is unlikely to care that his intimidation tactics were built on constitutional quicksand.

I was stuck in quicksand, and he helped pull me out.

Liquefaction occurs when shaking from an earthquake effectively turns the land into quicksand.

Affleck's spokesperson said, "I am not going to confirm anything about his personal life. We don't want to get dragged into quicksand. Everybody wants a war. It's not happening from our side."