Sentences with phrase «as dead as»

Well, the phone does no good when it's as dead as a doornail!

Those jokes are as dead as Right Said Fred's career, and while we'll refrain from repeating a quip you've heard a thousand times, we can't hold our tongues when, without a strong resume, your career could go the way of every dated fashion icon and -LSB-...] Continue Reading →

However, Nexus isn't as dead as we thought, as Google may be releasing several more Nexus brand devices in the very near future, complete with a few surprises.

Fear not though, the Start button functionality isn't as dead as it seems.

Samsung's clever combination of an efficient processor and some software optimization resulted in us consistently having around 25 percent of battery in the evening, when our trusty Galaxy S8 + would usually be as dead as a dodo.

As a result of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Ediger v. Johnston, 2013 SCC 18 (released today), the unique to British Columbia Moore v. Castlegar gloss on Snell v. Farrell is as dead as the parrot in the classic Monty Python sketch.

It necessarily follows, although the the Supreme Court did not explicitly say this so, that Athey material contribution, whatever it meant before 2007 as a method for establishing factual causation on the balance of probability, is as dead as the proverbial Monty Python Norweigian blue parrot.

His May 2010 3 Geeks and a Law blog post, Maybe Listservs Aren't As Dead As I Thought..., touted listservs as the «King of social networks» and proclaimed their continuing relevance:

So even if your email template is super slick and responsive, if the subject line or headline doesn't compel viewers to read, learn or act more, your legal email is as dead as a delete.

Example phrase: «the campaign was as dead as a dodo.»

I can't promise that the hockey stick will be as dead as Section 13 by the time this stupid trial is over, but I will do my best to ensure it - not just because the appalling and incurious prostration before pseudo-authority embodied by everyone from «Ellen» to The Columbia Journalism Review ought to be embarrassing to a functioning media, but because climate science itself, like Brandeis and the State of Ohio, needs, in Steve Huntley's phrase, more «free speech, free debate, free minds».

Before too long the global warming scare will be as dead as the scares about the Y2 bug or acid rain.

It's as dead as the Dodo Bird.

There have been a lot of comparisons made between Morphite and No Man's Sky, and they're somewhat accurate: Morphite is what you get when you strip the few elements from No Man's Sky that were actually good — the varied and beautiful planets and their flora and fauna — resulting in a title that's as dead as outer space.

Though still no word of a PS3 launch, it's at least a welcome thought that, when console sporting tweens do get to visit Free Realms, the place won't be as dead as a library full of zombies.

With the likes of Star Wars Battlefront, Halo 5: Guardians, Rainbow Six and Call of Duty Blops 3 providing games with their PvP fix, Destiny's multiplayer will be as dead as?

Either way, it feels as dead as Molyneux's reputation, with nobody still asking what comes next.

Or will it be as dead as this Icon people used to describe how dead the game is?

One wrong move and in fans eyes you'll be as dead as a member of the Nostromo.

All those old tired PR rules are as dead as the Do - Do.

With 2016 being as dead as everyone it took from us, and us facing down the barrel of some really bad choices made over the last 12 months, I think right now we could all use a good dose of positivity.

I feel it's as dead as people make it.

The lake is less crowded, classes have resumed at the local university, and the college's star quarterback is found as dead as the falling leaves.

While it's easy to describe the BlackBerry PlayBook line of tablets as dead as disco, a recent interview indicates that this might be a touch premature.

HP has made some statements to the effect that WebOS might not be as dead as folks were led to believe.

Tablets may not be the most exciting product category these days, but they also aren't quite as dead as some pundits would like you to believe — and for Huawei, they are actually a growing

His eyes were wide open and he had a grin on his face, but he was as dead as doornail.»

Don't get me wrong, she's as dead as they come, but it just gives me comfort to know I can come here and talk.

I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy.

A couple weeks ago I went on vacation and when I returned, my car battery was as dead as could be.

Trump's budget is as dead as everyone knew it would be.

With the combination of audience antipathy towards «Alien 3,» the disappointing box - office grosses (though it still made plenty of money throughout the world) and the fact that the main character had just committed a spectacular and seemingly irreversible suicide in the previous film, most people assumed that the «Alien» saga was as dead as Ripley and were therefore surprised a few years later to learn that not only was a fourth film, «Alien Resurrection,» going into production, it would even star Weaver.

Here's some new evidence that HBO's sprawling criminal anthology True Detective might not be as dead as the reception that greeted its second season might lead you to believe: Deadline reports that Moonlight and Luke Cage star Mahershala Ali — currently much in demand after his Oscar - winning turn in Barry Jenkins»...

A couple driving a van through a stormy night stops to pull a body out of the back and bury it, stopping only briefly when it turns out not to be as dead as they thought.

Sounds like the recently - mooted «Buckaroo Banzai» TV series is as dead as the eat - in Pizza restaurant.

Otherwise, the movie is as dead as its title character and like his victims, the audience is left feeling weak and dry at the end of its two - hour - plus bite.

Saying, «I don't know if it'll ever happen,» Green made it sound as if his re-imagining was as dead as ever.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

But then he unexpectedly comes back home where an argument with Carlye over some jewels makes him as dead as everyone had assumed — with her wielding the murder weapon.

It is a natural process, and even if you pump your face full with Botox, you'll be as dead as a nail in our casket when the day comes.

Make us the universe that wins, otherwise we're just as dead as...» And then I noticed it.

She's as dead as disco.

«The Conservatives» dalliance with liberalism is as dead as a dodo,» responded Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

«It's not as dead as I thought it was going to be,» said Anthony Brewington, 35, a site coordinator at P.S. 41 on West 11th Street, who said about 155 people had voted before noon.

IBM in Endicott isn't as dead as that doornail; the company has a skeleton crew of employees which continues to shrink while hiring in India increases.

That issue is as dead as door nail because A) the GOP won, B) the public is against late term abortion and C) the voters don't give a crap about that manufactured and divisive issue.

As dead as a zombie, just like the real world one.

It pains me to mention the lovely Poldi in that group though — but his Arsenal career is as dead as Artetas chances of getting his first cap for Spain.

I can't even imagine any player in the NBA being as dead as all Blazer players were in the Denver game.

It snowed in Baltimore while we were gone, and when I got back, my hot pepper plants were as dead as can be.