Sentences with phrase «add up to anything»

The snakes and the victims they bite don't add up to anything significant at all; but they sure do seem to preoccupy a lot of folks on the Blog - o - sphere.

Paired panels and layered nudes by David Salle refuse to add up to anything at all, much less pleasure.

They rarely add up to anything.

The company did not divulge what changes were employed, but no doubt aside from the aerodynamic wheel covers, it had more than a few tuning tricks under the hood as the spec sheet for the production car would not add up to anything close to 185 mph.

But what works on «Hawaii Five - O» and «Splatter» doesn't add up to anything worth shelling out shekels to see on the big screen.

It's not a bad film by any means - in fact, parts of it are quite intense and suspenseful and surprising - but the parts never really add up to anything weighty or memorable, partially because it revolves around one of those convoluted multiple - dimension plots that will give anyone trying to sort out the details a serious headache.

And the result doesn't add up to anything particularly absurd, ludicrous or hilarious.

Unfortunately, there is little else to appreciate about the film, which is a series of incidents that do not add up to anything greater.

There are a lot of heavy - handed lip service about terrorism, xenophobia, and democracy tossed around, but Snyder lacks the nuance to make it add up to anything.

However, when all is said and done, the assortment of loosely - connected vignettes doesn't really add up to anything of substance.

It isn't a disaster now, because the cost of upkeep + «lost» sales tax receipts doesn't add up to anything even close to the subsidies that would have gone to the developers.

Those three missing parts that don't quite add up to anything?

The system was speaking a mathematical language that did not add up to anything relevant to his heart.

If they really thought that through, how does it add up to anything?

Yet, though all this may be true, these «points» may still not seem to add up to anything substantive for understanding theological education.

Discrete events by definition have no plot, and even several of them (like numbers in a sequence) may not seem to add up to anything, but as the events accumulate sufficiently, patterns become more and more evident.

Does that mean there will continue to be these one - off court cases here and there across California that don't add up to anything definitive?

Loblaws would do well to keep certain boundaries sacred if they want this acquisition to add up to anything more than a real estate deal.

To be sure, none of this adds up to anything resembling an integrated twenty - first - century imagining of Christ's early days, and so what value does it finally have, in either moral or literary terms?

Students could make the rounds of masters, collecting ijazas, but there was no sequence; and no set ofijazas added up to anything like a master or doctoral degree.

No one knows whether the sum of all the carbon emissions from such fires adds up to anything of consequence for climate change.

None of it adds up to anything except a world in which superheroes are unavoidable — smashing through buildings and setting up sequels by watching sneak previews of future Justice League colleagues.

«Footsteps» delivers another fairly general piece with a mix of good observations that never adds up to anything especially strong.

Whether or not it adds up to anything is really of no concern to the picture.

It's by - numbers filmmaking that rarely adds up to anything worth the price of admission.

It never adds up to anything profound (we know the story too well to be truly surprised), but then again it doesn't have to.

It's less - is - more as more - is - more, as Refn cranks everything up to about fifteen, but doesn't bother ensuring that the film adds up to anything worthwhile other than a sort of extant commentary on form that doesn't go anywhere.

It's hard to know whether all this tweeting adds up to anything significant.

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It is the biggest scam ever, such a huge gigantic scam that's going to blow up in so many people's faces,» he said, adding: «It's far worse than anything I was ever doing.»

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

It's not a major concern in the decades leading up to retirement because you're only adding to your portfolio, not withdrawing anything from it.

What makes this more tragic is that this is an expertly crafted, beautifully shot and expertly acted project that, unfortunately, just doesn't add up to much of anything.

But it adds up to a much richer, more nuanced picture than anything the scientists and their followers have conjured up.

God did not charge them for anything up to this point, yet they refused to accept His «free gift», and delayed the process 40 years, and then added their own effort to the promise.

The words don't seem to add up to an actual statement about anything.

The cumulative effect of instances of such «seeing» might add up to faith and trust in a power wiser, greater and nobler than any we know, or, at any rate, it might commence that son of awakening, causing us to ask for a transcendent selfdisclosure that is unlike anything remotely resembling self - aggrandizement.

and I can neither do anything to add to it or mess it up.

I think if I were to do anything different I would chop up my pecans and maybe add some salt to the top of these.

You can add anything you like to this... nuts, dried fruit, vanilla or cinnamon... it's really up to you and what you like.

On the other hand, I've been adding all sorts of texture and flavor pops over the top of the silky soup, like garbanzos or lentils, spiced seeds, and this genius savory pistachio granola, which kicks up just about anything it's added to to the best degree.

Especially since you'll find the combination of spices, fruit, nuts & seeds that tastes good to you (and as always... feel free to mix it up, add anything that looks tasty to you, and experiment as you see fit).

you can get away with that without having to add anything else to make up volume.

Heating up this milk just briefly releases the natural thickening properties of cashews, so there is no need to add anything else for body and consistency.

Jalapeno peppers can be added to anything to spice it up.

Oats are full of fiber, when added to anything wet they will soak up the moisture; when oats do this they swell up pretty quickly.

So don't add in flour or anything to thicken it up — they will fluff up in the oven.

Is there anything I should add to make up for the change in consistency?

Now you can use this liquid gold yourself to cook with, bake with, smother veggies & proteins with, add to your bulletproof coffee and teas, smear on your pancakes / toast / waffles, or if you're anything like I am now... simply open up the jar just to SMELL it!

Jalapeños can be added to anything to spice it up.

I just made this today and I used the Frank's Hot Sauce instead of the Wing Sauce and I didn't change anything except I did make sure to use the butter because from what I was told by a waitress once was that the wing sauce just has butter added to the franks hot sauce... It wasn't runny at all, the chicken soaked up the sauce and it is delicious!!