albatross

The study also criticized certain analytical techniques and claimed that albatrosses don’t do Lévy walks after all, and that it was unclear whether many species did.

Note to Sting: An “albatross” in this context is more like “tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.”

She confesses that shame “hung around my neck like a scarlet-A albatross.”

The deal reached to end the shutdown did nothing to address the albatross of unpredictability.

It was tough when I was younger; it was like an albatross on my back but I just found a way to navigate it.

But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff.

He proposed that I might pilot the two-seater while he followed and pretended to give chase in an Albatross scout.

Instantly a great albatross swooped down upon it and swallowed the bait.

Far out on the Pacific the albatross sails proudly on his broad wings, and cares nothing for high winds or storms.

I was surprised and delighted to see a large albatross soaring majestically over the ship.

A few hours later we were landing beside the Albatross, in the leaden blue sea beyond the ice barrier.