These bleak conclusions need not lead into a cul-de-sac.
In this phylogenetic cul-de-sac, attention must now turn to how silk is used to become airborne.
The alternative approach is to ask whether philosophers have deceived themselves or backed themselves unnecessarily into a cul-de-sac.
By necessity, therefore, the estate will be a big cul-de-sac.
On his way home alone from a rugby club meeting he is confronted by four young would-be muggers who pursue him into a cul-de-sac.
It demonstrates an approach to construction and environmental control for the new ecological age by reversing out of the cul-de-sac of the twentieth century.
I think that they have backed themselves into a cul-de-sac.
However, while infections in the latter hosts may be a serious cosmetic nuisance for fish processors, they probably represent a cul-de-sac in the sealworm life cycle.
This surely is an intellectual cul-de-sac.
However, this parade took place on a new housing estate along a hammerhead cul-de-sac 150 yd long.
Why, then, are we in danger of going back into that political cul-de-sac two years on?
It prefers instead to rush headlong down an ideological cul-de-sac, which is destined to confine it to the margins of politics for years to come.
That is not a gateway, but a cul-de-sac.
It is a well-lit place and, being a cul-de-sac, carries no traffic.
They are not looking for cul-de-sac opportunities which do not lead anywhere, but which create the illusion and promise that they will.
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