Sentences with phrase «almost wrote it off»

They didn't make nearly as many moves as the other teams here, and you can almost write off the Hunter deal as pleasant nostalgia.

Hollywood almost wrote her off after Australia.

It started a little slow and I almost wrote it off but I'm glad I did not because it has really grown on me.

so far no db game has preformed on all cylinders, tenkaichi is still my favorite series but i haven't played in six years and nostalgia (up to a couple months ago) has blinded me to its flaws, since i had low expectations for budokai i noticed its flaws immediately and almost wrote it off (the game flaws is a totally different conversation all together though), all fans need to put nostalgia aside and see what would truly make the best game, but the 2d angle isn't what makes budokai great, and if dimps worked hard those 2 years I'm confidant they can make a 3d fighter the likes of which the world has never seen, maybe something even evo worthy.

There had been no momentum in either direction, and many had almost written off the altcoin.

Not exact matches

«Almost nobody except the president himself thought he could pull off the Correspondents» Dinner,» Wolff writes.

Microsoft is scaling down its mobile phone activities, writing off the entire value of the former Nokia smartphone business it bought last year and laying off almost one - third of that business» staff.

Tyerman writes almost like his medieval sources, describing a few events and then heading off on narrative tangents.

Its almost as if over the years that the various books were written, they were copying off of other religions rather than describing the same God.

You are arrogant, seem to know almost nothing about Judaism and are writing long - winded and off - putting posts.

Another constitutional historian, Carl Brent Swisher (also writing almost twenty years before Roe), remarked: «By handling the case in this manner, he [Taney] hoped he could do something toward suppressing anti-slavery agitation and ward off the conflict between the two sections of the country.

A patch of bad form and you write off a player from the first team of Barca going back quite a few years and is the best left winger in prem last season on the first team of Arsenal no doubt and has almost single handedly won Chile the Copa America which includes Brazil Argentina messi and co..

We write about the Mechanic almost every week, whether it's his stretching routine, penchant for cigars as he warms up and Rioja as he walks off the course, or just the bizarre and hilarious photos he's caught in.

Let's not forget that almost all pundits and many arsenal fans alike has written us off already.

I think its because you said that almost all think him not a credible solution and everybody has written him off without explanation.

As I mentioned previously Wenger's faith in the goalkeeper has provided us with the potential of a unique and rather heart - warming story: an opportunity for a player to fight for redemption despite being written off by almost everyone.

While their overall home form recently has been something to write home about, their 4 - 0 hammering by Man Utd in their last Reebok appearance has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons, so predicting a Bolton win might be a tad audcacious and we are almost certain Owen Coyle would settle for a point before kick - off.

Anyone under the age of 40 or so is almost instantly a write - off.

In her 2014 book, Off the Sidelines, Gillibrand wrote that after she lost almost 50 pounds, one of her male co-workers (who she said was one of her favorite people in the Senate) came up behind her and squeezed her waist.

In answering the question, I wrote my face off and ended up with an almost 50 page book looking at this exact thing.

«I've been on the birth - control pill on and off for almost 15 years,» wrote Lena Dunham in a Lenny Letter that rounded up contributors» favorite contraception methods.

The writing on the label wore off a long time ago, but I almost forgot this is a Wet «n Wild Polish.

I have almost completely written shorts off entirely.

I've been fortunate to have well - off, loving, understanding parents, go to a prestigious college and have a lot of friends: I'm an outgoing, honest, and kind girl (I'm writing this because I can't stand lies, deception, anger, envy or misery in people) To love and be loved is almost any girl and woman's dream and hope - to meet their one and only, that special one!

The destruction of Erabor is a massive CGI set piece that reminds of LOTR, while the sequence in The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventure.

After Jen is left for dead, her reemergence could fairly be written off as absurd, but its sheer unlikelihood gives her an almost supernatural quality, like she's animated by the souls of wronged women past.

Bug is the kind of movie that you almost want to write off after watching it for a good while and then it happens and, holy dog shit Mondays, everything changes.

After over 12 years in development, Nioh plays like a compilation of every hack - and - slash RPG since the early 2000s, and while it's almost tempting to write off most of the gameplay as being derivative of From Software's recent action RPGs, like Bloodborne and the Dark Souls franchise, there's so much more to the game than that.

It's one of the best sequences in the series to date, kicked - off with an incredible tracking shot before all hell breaks loose; alas, that energy dissipates during a bizarre title sequence that combines a Roger Moore - era naked lady montage with a touch of almost Lovecraftian soft - core tentacle scored to Sam Smith's tepid theme song, «Writing's on the Wall».

Written by Toronto - based Alex Larsen, the movie promises a timely look at racial problems paired with magisterial beats almost certainly to make this crowdpleaser kick off the midnightscene with a bang.

Partially written, directed and also one of the producers is #JohnKrasinski — starring alongside wife #EmilyBlunt — the film starts you off at an almost agonizingly slow pace, piece by piece, building you up to describe life in the oh - so - quiet - place.

It's a solid opening that is in absolutely no way indicative of what's to come, as the movie, written by David Loucka, Jacob Estes, and Akiva Goldsman, segues into a midsection that's devoted almost entirely to Julia's aforementioned investigation - with the heavy, heavy emphasis on this ensuring that Rings predominantly comes off as a weak rehash of the 2002 original.

Almost tempted to take off a star for the gimmicky use of music (Cameron Crowe said that he actually starts writing a film around a song he likes) but it all works so well, and the cast is fabulous: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frances McDormand, even Kate Hudson, more than aAlmost tempted to take off a star for the gimmicky use of music (Cameron Crowe said that he actually starts writing a film around a song he likes) but it all works so well, and the cast is fabulous: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frances McDormand, even Kate Hudson, more than almostalmost.

Filmmaker Tyler MacIntyre, working from a script written with Chris Lee Hill, delivers an admittedly spellbinding pre-credits sequence that's as creative as it is entertaining, and yet it's not long before the movie segues into a surprisingly tedious midsection rife with almost eye - rollingly conventional elements - with, ultimately, the most obvious example of this the two leads» relentlessly sarcastic, sardonic demeanor (ie both Sadie and McKayla come off as one - note, one - dimensional figures with few, if any, distinctive attributes).

Before that I had written a movie that Roland Emmerich is producing that became my writing sample that I got hired for Tomb Raider off of but, I also had just come out of the Transformers writers room which I don't know if you know much about writer rooms but basically, on some major pieces of IT the studio will bring together a team of writers to work, almost like they would work in a television writers room, where you work collaboratively with other writers and you come up with ideas.

This is on top of almost # 250,000 written off as a result of the school having overestimated its pupil numbers.

countless kids have written off their first cars, it's almost a rite of passage.

You write, «The End,» and then you go back through it until you're ready to puke, then you hand it off to an editor, almost throwing it at her like an unwanted pastrami on rye.

Turnover at the Barstuck's coffee chain («Where writers write, and drink terrible coffee») dropped almost twenty percent almost overnight, sparking a profit warning on Wall Street from the parent company and a round of lay offs from stores around the country.

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Art by MARK BAGLEY & DANNY MIKI Colors by PAUL MOUNTS Letters by VC»S CLAYTON COWLES You can almost catch the smell of popcorn wafting off the pages of Avengers Assemble # 3, the latest issue in Marvel's cash grab well - timed book featuring the cast of the blockbuster Avengers movie.

And yes there is but it almost a taboo subject to discuss because of the new financial power of women... and many are afraid to write anything that might piss them off.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Preparing my tax return on Turbotax takes maybe 3 - 4 hours, of which almost half is attributable to my capital loss reporting for bad debt of P2P notes that have been written off.

But the government has also amped up efforts to collect outstanding student loans, especially after write - offs escalated to almost $ 300 million in 2015.

Last year, the government wrote off almost 34,000 loans totaling $ 176 million.

Especially for something as amorphous and fluid as a credit card balance, it is almost as if until you write a big check to pay it off it does not fully exist.

«This is a country that... is so vast and empty that a band of amateur enthusiasts could conceivably set off the world's first non-governmental atomic bomb on its mainland and almost four years would pass before anyone noticed,» he writes.

First off, if I'm going to write a post about redeeming Delta Skymiles, I have to bring up the fact that many people regard them as almost entirely worthless.

It would be so easy to write Overwatch off almost immediately, due to its apparent simplicity.

After writing it off so many years ago and only piecing together the details in the time since, it almost feels like coming home.