Sentences with phrase «nonentity in»

It has already folded in three of the five largest metropolitan areas — Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit — while it has been only a propped - up nonentity in New York and a cut - rate arena loss leader in L.A. «I'm not kidding myself,» Foreman says.

Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility is a nonentity in this regard, and one fears that Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey is too detached and ironic to be much of a pastor, though he provides both intellectual and moral training for the heroine, Catherine Morland.

RR: I think what's happened is that China and India, at least in the official sense or reported sense, were nonentities in the gold business 10 or 15 years ago and they have moved to being important entities.

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The illusion that there are uninterpreted «self - sustained facts, floating in nonentity» (PR 11/17) is the direct outcome of Bacon's attempt to describe detailed matters of fact in separation from a metaphysical interpretation of the experienced world as a unified whole.

«It is a contradiction in terms to assume that some explanatory fact can float into the actual world out of nonentity.

To put it in Whitehead's own terms: «It is a contradiction in terms to assume that some explanatory fact can float into the actual world out of nonentity.

There are no self - sustained facts, floating in nonentity.

After all, this was the men's amateur team championship of the world, and even though the four - man Australian team — made up, in general, of an anonymous, a nobody, a nonentity and a who?

Three of the players were nonentities, it's true, but the fourth is a player named Eddie Fisher, who has become one of the best relievers in the game and who has almost singlehandedly knuckled the Chisox into pennant contention with his superb bullpen work.

The United States team that so humiliated England at Belo Horizonte in the 1950 World cup was a ragbag collection of part - timers and international nonentities.

But on Radio 4's The World at One, Smith said Miliband had been «trying to stir up trouble» in writing the article and ought to get on with his job, adding that if he was sacked he would return to being a «nonentity» on the backbenches.

Others argue that Labour's problems predate this, that the party has been too complacent for too long, especially in the west of Scotland, where it was guilty of cronyism, putting forward nonentities as candidates for councils, the Scottish parliament and Westminster.

Based on experience from phoneticizing similar nonentities into Japanese, she renders it as biburon, under the fairly safe assumption that anyone in Japan likely to take notice will recognize the word as vibron written in phonetic script.

Psychologists say that it is better to be of a higher opinion of yourself than there is in fact, than to consider yourself a complete nonentity and engage in constant self - flagellation.

It certainly doesn't help that Dolly's betrothed, Owen (James Norton), is a complete nonentity, both as sketched and rendered; ergo, there's no sense of proper balance or dramatic tension in Dolly's affinity for these two men.

In a way, the film's timelessness has always been assured by Cox's restless protagonist, Emilio Estevez's suburban punk - cum - repossession agent Otto, who's always seemed like a bit of a nonentity.

Furthermore, Greg is a nonentity character who crumbles under scrutiny, something Rachel subjects him to in a rare moment of candor.

But I'm appalled by the strident sitcom overkill that surrounds Fonda on every side (no stars)-- every other character is a cliche or a nonentity — and by the pat conclusion: a last - minute, deus ex machina cameo by Elaine Stritch inspires Fonda's character to undergo a complete reversal in time to guarantee a happy ending.

Daniel Day - Lewis plays a haute couture dressmaker in 1950s England; the actor has announced this will be his last film but in a spirit of genuine humility has allowed it to be stolen by Vicky Krieps, a little - known actress from Luxembourg who plays the dressmaker's muse, progressing from a shy nonentity — a living mannequin — to his emotional equal and the keeper of his art and soul.

Sobieski does intermittently rise above the occasion, doing what she can with the film's only halfway - realistic role; some usually reliable co-stars fare less well: Skarsgård gives in to the histrionics of the script too easily while Lane is stymied by a role that's a nonentity on the page.

The stone - faced, bald Agent 47 is the ideal video game protagonist, a nonentity who slips in and out of identities.

Few things are as sweet as the sound of the the sanctimonious loser / nonentity we're - an - org - not - a-com titheads at Adbusters drowning in their own...

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Nobody, name one «real statistician» who has forestalled VS in a peer reviewed paper, other than nonentities like yourself.