culs-de-sac

• “Although if we are going to face a Matthew-as-Lazarus moment and for Mary's sake, I wouldn't oppose it entirely, then that would sum up one of the biggest flaws of this series: we keep being led down culs-de-sac that then turn out to be false.”

  The Guardian: Downton Abbey: series two, episode six

• “One might imagine culs-de-sac being converted to faux Main Streets, or McMansion developments being bulldozed and reforested or turned into parks.”

  The Next Slum?

• “And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air … (tags: Ballardian Ballard architecture highrise interview urbanism crime) [...]”

  Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’

• “And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air …”

  Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’

• “Any attempt to go backwards steers you into barriers and culs-de-sac, and if you jumped over them youd encounter a rabid three-headed dog.”

  Simon & Schuster: What's Going On

• “Its talented preservation and community-planning experts should be offered the chance to devise a land-use approach that revives charming old neighborhood patterns rather than producing alienating culs-de-sac or artificial quaintness.”

  Simon & Schuster: My New Orleans

• “Along came sterile housing tracts set in isolating culs-de-sac, and shopping centers whose only ties to localities were the dollars of local consumers.”

  Gas Guzzling Gavin

• “The word may also be applied to narrow streets or culs-de-sac between major streets.”

  connotation of "callej�n" ??

• “Now they are parted by a pencil, then by a flood of silvery splendour; while under the projecting cornices and the huge hanging-windows of fantastic wood-work, supported by gigantic corbels, and deep verandahs, and gateways vast enough for Behemoth to pass through, and blind wynds and long culs-de-sac, lie patches of thick darkness, made visible by the dimmest of oil lights.”

  The Sudden Curve:

• “It contains between fifty and sixty streets, including the alleys and culs-de-sac.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

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