Her engines flared, then died, and she began a slow, inexorable slide into the first cruiser's underbelly.

'Certain death,' said Twoflower helpfully, trying to ignore the slow but inexorable slide of his body across the flagstones.

Order had slipped away from life; the constants that made his routine were dissolving, and he was powerless to stop the inexorable slide.

Criticism in this space during an inexorable slide this season has always been delivered with a heavy heart.

What can be done to halt this inexorable slide?

In any event, the nuns were only the most publicized victims of Liberia's seemingly inexorable slide into anarchy.

Continuing story is the inexorable slide of formerly invincible Peppy.

Ice chips flew as the rear legs clawed, resisting the inexorable slide.

Dunwing leaned back, trying to dig her claws in somewhere to check the inexorable slide.

In 1988, however, despite being voted to what would be his final All-Star appearance, Murphy's production began an inexorable slide downward.