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Yet the story itself—a Donnie Darko-like tale set in 1984 about a game developer (Fionn Whitehead) descending into madness—comes up short, with five abrupt endings and several blind alleys.
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
As Michael Porter famously pointed out, strategy is not operational effectiveness, and what makes for great instincts about execution can lead you down a strategic blind alley.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The consistency of his defending has improved, as has his knack for knowing when to burst forward with the ball and when to wait for team-mates to join him instead of running down blind alleys.
—Carl Anka, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
Intellectual progress includes a lot of blind alleys and wrong turns along the way.
—Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
Sometimes a baseball game is like a blind alley.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 June 2022
In the new show, the characters’ lives unfold as if set in a maze with nothing but one blind alley after another, leaving them to wrestle with lingering burdens (drug addiction, a dead-weight ex, a criminal record) and without an obvious way out.
—Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
Bastian’s counterparts at American and United airlines – Doug Parker and Scott Kirby, respectively - voluntarily have led their carriers down the same rhetorical blind alley.
—Dan Reed, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
Learning about work at another lab can save months or even years of work by moving past a blind alley, avoiding re-inventing the wheel, or suggesting a shortcut.
—Oren Etzioni, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
As Michael Porter famously pointed out, strategy is not operational effectiveness, and what makes for great instincts about execution can lead you down a strategic blind alley.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The consistency of his defending has improved, as has his knack for knowing when to burst forward with the ball and when to wait for team-mates to join him instead of running down blind alleys.
—Carl Anka, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
Intellectual progress includes a lot of blind alleys and wrong turns along the way.
—Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
Sometimes a baseball game is like a blind alley.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 June 2022
In the new show, the characters’ lives unfold as if set in a maze with nothing but one blind alley after another, leaving them to wrestle with lingering burdens (drug addiction, a dead-weight ex, a criminal record) and without an obvious way out.
—Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
Bastian’s counterparts at American and United airlines – Doug Parker and Scott Kirby, respectively - voluntarily have led their carriers down the same rhetorical blind alley.
—Dan Reed, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
Learning about work at another lab can save months or even years of work by moving past a blind alley, avoiding re-inventing the wheel, or suggesting a shortcut.
—Oren Etzioni, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
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“Blind alley.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blind%20alley. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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