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And while I won’t reveal that detail here, it’s safe to say that this spoiled satanist is more of a toe being dipped back into the water, and not a full-fledged cannonball into the deep end that could make Gellar’s performance the film’s splashiest element.

From Salon

“A Prelude to Immortality” is best enjoyed by Churchill aficionados looking for a swim in the pool’s deep end.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite a drop in game time after finding himself in the deep end of a title challenge at just 18 last year, it is not all negative for Lewis-Skelly.

From BBC

They’re all taller than I am, so sometimes they picked a place right between the shallow end and the deep end, where they could stand and I couldn’t.

From Literature

Listening to them, I feel like I’m standing on tiptoe in that place between the shallow end and the deep end of the pool even though I’m on dry land.

From Literature