Gradually then suddenly they quoted Hemingway

First we had:

A man goes bankrupt, Ernest Hemingway wrote, gradually, then suddenly. Autocrats lose office the same way, as the fate of Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s deposed president, dramatically illustrates. - 1 March 2014

Then we had:

“Change comes to German policy in ways similar to Ernest Hemingway's description of bankruptcy: first gradually, then suddenly.” - 27 February 2022

Now its:

“Two ways. … Gradually, then suddenly.” The last week suggests that getting out of bankruptcy works the same way. - 2 March 2022, twice.

“The collapse of the Soviet empire after 70 years of monolithic existence happened, to coin Hemingway, gradually - then suddenly.” - 3 March 2022

“Such outcomes occur the way Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt—gradually and then suddenly.” - 7 March 2022, Eliot Cohen of course, he is morally and intellectually bankrupt, repeating nonsense constantly

“It recalls a line from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “gradually, then suddenly.” - undated.

“Autocrats often lose office in the same way that Hemingway writes one goes bankrupt: “gradually, then suddenly.” - 12 April 2022

“A character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises describes the two ways in which he went bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” - June 2 2022

“These lines from Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, reveal a lot about the human experience when it comes to success and failure.” - 4 August 2022

Gradually, then Suddenly

The Ukrainian flag is raised again in Kupyansk “How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. As with bankruptcy so with military defeat. What appears to be a long, painful grind can quickly turn into a rout. A supposedly resilient and well-equipped army can b…

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PS this is about the unoriginal use of Hemingway in commenting, not a comment on the war.

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