We are taken ashore and forced to run the gantlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us. |
Both women had the unquittable job, the dream house in the sticks, and the gantlet in between. |
A few of us followed in their wake, running a gantlet of cops trying to stop us for no reason they could reasonably explain. |
Why, to get to the dining room, must one walk a gantlet of giant oil lamps, as if a Rose Ceremony is about to begin? |
Running that gantlet is a thankless task for a centrist candidate in a time of rabid RINO hunting. |
And in this, too, he represented Manhattan, the city that in dreams works beautifully and in daily life is a brutal gantlet. |