Sentences with phrase «of a damp squib for»

If Ehrenreich is too much of a damp squib for you, might I suggest feasting your eyes on Donald Glover's suave - as - hell Lando?

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And we really need it to be, because what was supposed to be a great season for the Gunners, following on from our Premier League title charge last season and the end of a nine year wait for a trophy, has turned into yet another damp squib, so far at least.

The bonfire of the quangos became a damp squib for David Cameron.

The lesson of the SDP's damp squib start is that Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system is very unforgiving for small parties.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

Likewise, for all the talk of the showdown with Bill (when it finally arrives after far too much time), his death is a total damp squib, with far too little catharsis and making too less sense.

The Vita TV has been as much of a damp squib as the Vita itself, which means you can buy it for an absolute song these days.

A sale of 140 or so contemporary works that was held in Paris this February was a bit of a damp squib, and raised barely # 300,000, half what had been hoped for, to fund the opening in April of The Dairy — a not - for - profit contemporary arts and exhibition centre in London which Cohen shares with another dealer / collector, Nicolai Frahm.

For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.