How To Use Cakewalk In A Sentence
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As tough as it may be to get hired in political science, it's a cakewalk compared to getting a position in, say, English departments.
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The only way McCainiac gets a "cakewalk" is if if it's Hill/McCain and Bloomberg jumps in (which is highly likely in that scenario).
Your Right Hand Thief
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* No one in the Bush administration ever said the war would be a "cakewalk" --- that term was used by a private consultant.
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
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The following week he was summoned before the disciplinary committee of his church and charged with unchristian conduct, in the following particulars, to wit: dancing, and participating in a sinful diversion called a cakewalk, which was calculated to bring the church into disrepute and make it the mockery of sinners.
The Marrow of Tradition
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The First Amendment, we should recall, would be a cakewalk if people expressed themselves within prescribed boundaries of acceptable speech.
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Tell me again why the Liberals are expected to cakewalk through the coming election?
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If you can repeatedly do these three things, then you're on your way to being a superstar forex trader! But we warn you, it's no cakewalk.
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Starting with footage shot by Thomas Edison (yes, the Thomas Edison), this magnificent compilation takes us from dances like the cakewalk to the jitterbug.
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Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk.
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Dream ballets and integrated dance numbers replaced flashy kick lines, and for a while, it looked as if tap would go the way of the cakewalk and the waltz, pretty much disappearing from our musical theater.
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Republican Ken Adelman, one of the architects of the Iraq war who once infamously claimed that post-war Iraq would be a "cakewalk" - and who is widely hated by the far left for his
Sister Toldjah
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New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.
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Literalizing the form's political instrumentality, Chesnutt stages the first of the novel's two cakewalks as light entertainment for a group of northern investors.
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As the troupe becomes even more successful, their stage set at the Maxwell Theater features a huge Sambo backdrop through whose grinning mouth the minstrels cakewalk onto the stage.
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If it isn't, I'm sure he could provide scionwood of a better clone - but grafting myrtaceous plants is no cakewalk!
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These were characters I knew, this was a story I believed in wholeheartedly and I would have the outline; it would be cakewalk.
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It arose in the slavery period as an accompaniment to plantation dances like the cakewalk.
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The tender meat should then be disarticulated from the bones, skin and all, which, in this case, will be a cakewalk as the flesh has been rendered into a state of tender, moist, near-gelatinous compliance, the smell of which should cause mild hallucinations.
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Fagan gives the group work a flavor of the vernacular, with disco movement, skittering cakewalk and soft-shoe steps, fast tap-dance turns, and the high lifts and dramatic held poses of exhibition ballroom dance.
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Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk.
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The Sherman Act was a cakewalk compared to an Italian immigrant.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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Istook now faces Governor Brad Henry (D), who cakewalked to his nomination with 85.8% of the vote.
Midterm Roundup
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While there are a number of other missions that have successfully aerobraked into more circular and less elliptical orbits, the maneuver is never a cakewalk.
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invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk
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Not surprisingly, he cakewalked through the competition, reinforcing his father's belief that his son would also rise through the bodybuilding ranks.
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Linked to West African dance forms, the joyous strutting of the cakewalks implied that the plantation was a sunny home with happy slaves; beneath that facade, however, the dance actually mocked the slave owners.
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‘To get established was not easy, it was not a cakewalk for me,’ she admits.
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Let's just get this part over with, then the rest will be a cakewalk.
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Obama is a fighter ... no one thought it would ever have come to him being on the verge of the nomination, HIllary thouight it was going to be a cakewalk from the start.
Clinton in new ad: I'm a 'fighter'
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Fasting or abstention from sex is a cakewalk compared to it.
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I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk for us to stay there.
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But fortunately, for even the most dunderheaded of theatre-goers - your reviewer included - acting in this play should prove a cakewalk.
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New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was originally called jazz.
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She cakewalked from First Lady to Iowa ... and as soon as the going got tough, we saw a whole new person.
Obama Releases Another Ad Hitting Hillary Over Gas Tax Holiday
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But that does not mean that Roberts’ trip to the high bench will be a cakewalk, nor should it be.
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‘I wouldn't want to be cakewalking through games and then get to the playoffs and not have this kind of experience, ‘Donovan said.’
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And so, fortified by a High Tea consisting of tea, cold meats and sandwiches, our Edwardian gentlemen and ladies bunny-hugged, turkey-trotted, waltzed and cakewalked to their hearts content, unhampered by the restrictions of contact between men and women of previous generations.
Thé Dansant | Edwardian Promenade
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Today the soon-to-be Senate majority leader suggested things won't necessarily be a cakewalk for his own party in the new Senate.
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From here on, international tournaments will not be American All-Star cakewalks.
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It's also worth bearing in mind that Allen's big cash chest was supposed to be intended for his presidential run once he cakewalked through his 2006 race.
VA-SEN: Poll: Allen's Lead Over Webb Shrinks To Three Points
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Most people were calling a cakewalk -- you know, be prepared to turn off your television sets early, because this isn't much of a game you're about to watch -- when in fact it turned out to be really one of the great legendary football games in our country's history.
There are some words you might think they wouldn’t use at the White House any more. - Swampland - TIME.com
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Had they played sensibly they could have cakewalked that game.
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Her revue included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty George and the cakewalk.
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The whole Virginia Minstrels chorus joins in while cakewalking in line behind Emmett.
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It annoys us a bit that some people assumed that after beating Cork this would be a bit of a cakewalk for us, that we'd go up there and beat them well.
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Even better, once there had been such a demonstration, a guaranteed "cakewalk" -- as, say, in Iraq -- who would ever dare stand up to American power again?
The End of a Subprime Administration
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winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him
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‘I knew from day one of joining the four-month course that passing the exam would be a cakewalk,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eyes.
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The Sherman Act was a cakewalk compared to an Italian immigrant.
THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
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It was not exactly a cakewalk for the actresses either: ‘There is a lot of Urdu used in the film and we had to work on our diction as well as dance for the songs.’
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But this invasion will not be the cakewalk neoconservatives predict.
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I don't think anybody knows how long it would take, and I don't think anybody should go on the impression that it's going to be easy or a cakewalk or whatever those phrases are that people use.
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Only a few teams have a chance to prevent Arizona from cakewalking through the rest of the season.
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The cakewalk was a dance performed by slaves in the Deep South, usually on Sundays.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement.
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My Spanish exam was a cakewalk, I finished in about 20 minutes.
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It's the psychological condition that allowed them and their followers to convince themselves that invading and occupying a large but dysfunctional country would be a cakewalk.
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And so has this story, this investigation, this scandal, changed the election from what was a cakewalk into now possibly a defeat for the prime minister?
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Some etymologists believe the term cakewalk and piece of cake and takes the cake came about when contest winners in rural areas of the United States were given cakes as prizes, for just about any competition.
Let Me Eat Cake
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For his city-dwelling clients, the climb isn't such a cakewalk.
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The digital living room she was once going to fill with listening and sharing as she cakewalked to the nomination has become an altogether more dissonant gathering place.
Only Connect
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Washburn a name like that is destined for fame paraded his companys flour before a panel of judges, and Superlative Flour cakewalked away with the grand prize.
Let Me Eat Cake
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I learned that the cakewalk, a highstepping dance, began on Southern plantations in the 1840s.
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Although I suspect the match will be a cakewalk, we are going to take it very seriously.
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The fact that the guard was a thin man considerably shorter than Walker made the task seem like a cakewalk.
