#sinking

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ↗

— Matthew Hale

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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. ↗

— Bobby Darin

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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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