Sentences with phrase «as much fodder»

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Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

What I find so disturbing is that the metaphorical stories provided by the Bible provide so much fodder for intellectual exploration, but they are being read as if by 5 year olds.

The only surprise was that they did not put more goals past Arsenal, but no matter as they are now eight points ahead of a United side who no longer look much of a threat despite thrashing relegation fodder like West Ham and Swansea at the start of the season.

And yet, even with the bridge lighting scheme serving as Cynthia Nixon campaign fodder, the governor's office continues to suggest it is moving ahead with a project about which it will reveal no new details — not who, precisely, will ultimately pay for it, nor how much it will cost.

In Liming, local communities used to harvest wood on a rotational basis, assigning mature trees by lottery and strictly policing how much could be cut, even as other cultural practices — such as cooking the fodder for pigs — added more pressure.

While there was nary a logo in sight, this collection was unmistakably Valentino, and though there might not be as much millennial fodder here as in recent seasons, we're betting that many of the commercial pieces that hit shelves six months down the road will cater directly to that younger consumer.

Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

The space race and NASA's moon landing are as much part of our national identity as they are fodder for conspiracy theories.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

The sensational story served as fodder for lots of lurid newspaper headlines in Great Britain for much of 1977, until the accused jumped bail and escaped back to the States, never to be extradited or to face justice again.

While most scholarship treats films as fodder for validating and perpetuating sacred theoretical frameworks, much like Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms, film criticism takes each film primarily as an autonomous art object and derives from the object the analytical tools necessary for discussing it, which may or may not be found in film theory toolkit.

Though you pretty much know how it's going to end as soon as the first few guys succumb to the deadly triumvirate of the punishing weather, dangerous terrain and hungry predators, Carnahan manages to hold your interest by taking the time to develop his characters, humanizing them beyond simple wolf fodder.

Enemies in Dynasty Warriors 9 are largely combo - fodder, with health bars that are constantly red and offer no indicator as to how much life they have left.

(I admit that's been my experience thus far and it's why I'm not sure I'm doing anything wrong here, though it admittedly doesn't give me as much new fodder for my blog!).

I like blasting bad guys as much as the next commander, but the lack of emotional weight makes Omega just another pointless series of hallways chockful of mildly challenging cannon fodder.

Both are the cheapest unit in the game, which means you don't need to think of the others as cannon fodder so much, which means you can appreciate the value of each of them, even if their respective roles are not perhaps as clear (laser - wielding Lazlo is not particularly indistinguishable from sniper Sid) as they should be.

Modern Sonic's levels are much more linear and shorter than ever before, and enemies act as nothing other than Boost fodder throughout the entire game and rarely strike back.

Not as much attention was paid to the enemies, who are quite bit rougher looking, but they're just anonymous sword - fodder anyway.

Enemies in Dynasty Warriors 9 are largely combo - fodder, with health bars that are constantly red and offer no indicator as to how much life they have left.

Christopher Joyce's report for NPR notes how the study provides fodder for everyone in the fracking fight, raising — as is the case with much science — more questions than it answers.

Given that these trivial data issues such as Harry provide so much fodder for your detractors, why is more effort not made to quality check the data.