Sentences with word «doornail»

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

I suppose in the abstract this would be dull as doornails if not unhelpful, and so probably it's best to explain it with examples and in the context of climate modeling, but I wanted to describe it in the abstract, just because I think what keeps a lot of people from appreciating climate science (or even why it's hard to appreciate) has to do with very basic ideas about not just «the scientific process» but with the narrower or perhaps more easily describable process of modeling.

If I tried that now, I'd be as dead as a doornail.

Religious people have to want to convert everyone, they cant stand someone else's beliefs how can they be right if there are other beliefs, so this fear wants them to have religion in government to force it on people, so they can think happy happy thought and be dumb as a doornail

In a few more days, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus would lay Jesus in a tomb, dead as a doornail but at the same time glorified almost beyond recognition.

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.

«Mr. Horwitz may be sharp as a tack in criminal court, but he's dumb as a doornail evidently when it comes to issues of free speech, which he has admitted to trying to regulate.

Sure, they could look like a Greek God / Goddess, but they could be dumber than a doornail or have interests in things that you are completely clueless about.

And while you are learning how to do that, a doorkey is a doornail, and the flap of the letterbox is a meat - slicer, and the very air is full of spikes and blades.

If Beatshapers had shipped a more complete game, #KAZ would be an easier recommendation, but as of now, your $ 13.99 can be put to better use elsewhere on the PlayStation Network than this undead as a doornail title.

When Chuck Close took up portrait painting in the late 1960s, he says that «painting was dead, figurative painting was deader than a doornail, and portraiture was the most moribund of all activities.»

If painting was dead, figurative painting was deader than a doornail, and portraiture was the most moribund of all activities.

It both never existed and got killed deader than a doornail.

I'd say that since we don't have a legally binding agreement that the Kyoto Protocol is deader than a doornail and now has nothing to do with anything.

But because this does not transfer a ton of power over to the dead battery, waiting will not always do the trick, especially if your battery was dead as a doornail to begin with.

Charge time takes about 35 minutes on the Qi stand, or a bit closer to 45 if it's dead as a doornail.

If you're chilled by the thought of your kid trying to call for a ride home only to find out their phone battery is deader than a doornail, consider the LG X Power and its monstrous 4,100 - mAh battery.

It's been with me through all of my book photos and now, it's dead as a doornail (what in the world is a dead doornail, anyway?).

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