to stall cattle

In true anthropophagistic fashion, an apparently domesticated cultural subject trumps its more powerful opponent by feigning a retreat.

Who is the only Lodestar vice president whose reputation hasn't been compromised by the failure of one of these Next Big Things?

Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.