Flame Out

I'm not claiming it was easy, but I pride myself on my physical strength, problem-solving abilities, and a certain can-do attitude that's served me well over the years -- well, at least it used to before the, you know, flame-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That is, of course, unless he craps the bed against the Lakers on Friday night, prompting a demotion to the bench, and an eventual flame-out of the league altogether. ❋ Chi Tung (2012)

If there's a benefit to Adams seemingly endless flame-out it's that it will give everybody time to come to a consensus, to prevent his legacy from being one of continued division, resentment and angry conflict. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* Governor Walker's fireside chat was a big flame-out: Dave Weigel finds signs in Walker's speech last night that he was subtly conceding some turf to unions and Dems, because his big threat of layoffs wouldn't occur until June, giving Dems plenty of time to continue mobilizing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From former CEO Carly Fiorina 's spectacular flame-out, and former chairwoman Patricia Dunn 's illegal spying scandal, to Mr. Hurd's alleged sex scandal that apparently didn't involve any sex at all, this sort of dysfunction has become "the H-P Way." ❋ Al Lewis (2011)

Obama has NO political cover on that fiscal flame-out … due to the paucity of GOP collaborators, he owns it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's fine so long as Hal is struggling with the turgid Oedipal issues that cause a temporary flame-out in his psyche. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

I wasn't surprised by Herman Cain's quick flame-out, and he was never going to maintain that popularity. ❋ Turnstyle (2012)

About 37.6 million people watched Sunday's Academy Awards, at which there were no surprises, and fashion faux pas, but which had people all a 'twitter the next day, owing to the epic flame-out of show co-host James Franco. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If this decline proves more than a seasonal quirk, it points to a pickup in job growth next year that could help avoid another consumer flame-out. ❋ Kelly Evans (2011)

School is very stressful and after a while the stress gets too much to bear and there will be a meltdown or a flame-out or some acting out or a collapse into exhaustion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Julie Wainwright, former chief executive of the infamous bubble-era flame-out Pets. com, is back with a new Internet business. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Obama has NO political cover on that fiscal flame-out… due to the paucity of GOP collaborators, he owns it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shouldn't he have said that he learned from Jim Zorn that a football team needs a competent head coach because after Zorn's spectacular flame-out Snyder realized he needed someone who actually knew what they were doing? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like his fellow filmmakers Mascha and Manfred Poppenkso, whose documentary Grown In Detroit focuses on a high school program that teaches pregnant teens how to farm on a former playground, Woolf has faith in Detroit's ability to rise from the ashes of the auto industry's flame-out and reinvent itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obama's campaign is Dean 2.0 (sans flame-out), but with a different candidate with more candidate skills and a slightly different skill-set he brings to his candidacy. ❋ Unknown (2009)