Sentences with phrase «anywhere near his peak»

Make no mistake, Norman Mailer's latest is neither a great retelling of the gospel nor Mailer anywhere near the peaks that he reached with his political writing that culminated in the compulsively readable account of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, The Armies of the Night, or even Executioner's Song, his story of the ending of the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty with the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore.

Getting anywhere near the peak of the profession requires several attributes as a bare minimum, all of which are thoroughly appealing: a deranged work rate; the ability to charge up and down the wing at speed; a knack for a crunching tackle.

Not exact matches

We haven't gotten anywhere near the kind of euphoria that exists at major bull - market peaks.

The powertrain is a letdown, with an unresponsive CVT that's loath to let the 1.8 - liter four - cylinder rev anywhere near its torque peak.

While I'm not holding my breath that these awards will be anywhere near as generous or available as, say, American's off - peak flights to Europe, even an expansion of regular Saver availability would be excellent.

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

I'm not persuaded that we are anywhere near «peak coal».

Unfortunately this feature is restricted to auto - brightness, so if you're a manual brightness person, you won't achieve peak brightness anywhere near as high.

We have serious doubts that this system has usable power anywhere near those claims and besides, we don't think the included speakers would know what to do with 165 watts of peak power if they got it anyway.

Regarding peak brightness, which we measured in each set's Vivid mode, the E7 (446.5 nits) didn't fare as well as the Sony (684 nits); neither came anywhere near the Samsung's 1008 nits.