Sentences with phrase «short of madness»

Nicknamed «Clinton's Ditch» after New York mayor and later Governor Dewitt Clinton, its biggest promoter, the project was derided by many, including Thomas Jefferson, who said, «Talk of making a canal 350 miles through wilderness is little short of madness.»

Yeah, that's probably because the game runs on the same engine, but to try and alter such an awesome shooting formula would be nothing short of madness.

The pathetic amount I earn elsewhere is unlikely to come close to what I'd make on borrows and reads with Select but it's taken so long to build those sales that I feel that pulling out now would be a few yards short of madness.

To start Gibbs ahead of Monreal was nothing short of madness.

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The madness of the whole venture is something just short of building a railway from ocean to ocean, or connecting every kitchen in the land with copper wires.

He tells us that he wanted to find the «cracks in the granite of genius, the madness just below the surface, the intensity, the economic and psychological costs of the frenzies of writing, as well as the profound and mercurial mysteriousness of a figure with whom one is never really finished»» in short, to unearth the «Kierkegaard complex.»

While announcing the development, the Director of Public Affairs to Adamawa State governor, Mr P. P. Elisha, said the decision was necessary as it is a short term strategy to put an end to the «madness» ongoing in the area.

To cut the long story short, Plenty of Fish (POF) got itself into a surreal cinematic thriller involving Argentinean hackers, Russian gangsters, American dating site owners, Capitol Hill reporters, website serial killers, and an e-mail to a mother to stop all the madness.

TheWrap caught up with Erdmann in the midst of the Cannes madness, with the soft - spoken director trying gamely to answer questions even though her voice had been reduced to a hoarse whisper in a few short days of festival frenzy.

Not to be confused with an episode in the first season of Orange is the New Black, this 5 - minute short film in the Midnight Madness program at least wins the contest for pluckiest title.

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor is nothing short of mesmerizing as Northup, a man who tries his hardest to maintain a sense of dignity about the madness, though he must keep appearances that he does not, in the face of unspeakable oppression.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell - Tale Heart (1843) is a chilling piece of short fiction, providing a look into madness through the eyes of a narrator who believes himself to be perfectly sane.

And I had indeed laid out objectives; there was a method to the madness, regardless of the appearance of fifteen unruly preadolescent boys and one short teacher roaming the neighborhood with cameras.

Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization's downfall.

Booksellers had called the discounting «madness», with Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Books in Colchester describing the promotion as «very short - sighted... It's valuing a short - term gain over long - term stability».

The Big Short is an excellent book about the mortgage meltdown, those that gamed the rating agencies, those that fell victim to false beliefs and greed, and those that profited by creating investments to short the madness of the cShort is an excellent book about the mortgage meltdown, those that gamed the rating agencies, those that fell victim to false beliefs and greed, and those that profited by creating investments to short the madness of the cshort the madness of the crowd.

7 months of short sale madness and two willing buyers on the table, CW still forecloses!!!

And through the concrete madness of honking horns and beep - beep - beeps, the shuttlecock, the raggedy dog, the yellow - scarved soldiers in green, the docking ships of night and the smog of modernity; silently cruised the noble old cyclo drivers in shorts and rag shirts, bobbing on forever over their chariots — these three - wheeled rickshaws with a large passenger seat at the front, like a bicycle attached to a wheelchair — visions of serenity and melancholy calm.

Alongside all the small businesses are budget accommodation options of varying standards, from «Magic Garden» and Lonely Beach Resort for ensuite bungalows and large roadside restaurants, to «Oasis «and «Little Eden» for well run, good value bungalows a short walk away from the madness on a hillside overlooking the beach.

No matter what they end up doing, we can be certain that the sequel, be it a spin - off or not, will be nothing short of absolute madness.

Blizzard has once again sauntered out of its comfort zone and manufactured magic out of madness, though it falls short of perfection by thinking it could exorcise the curse Modern Warfare has left hanging over the multiplayer shooter space.

«Luca Bendandi at Vetro Editions in Berlin saw this and thought such a short run of beautifully designed book was «madness» and got in touch, and we set about publishing it with proper distribution.

They had some pretty wild ideas, laced now and again, with outrageous conspiracy theories that barely stopped short of David Icke's madness.

Corporations and industries which have made billions getting us into this mess and are spending millions trying to stop us getting out of it, in short - sighted madness, just play into that fear and anxiety.

Putting two screens on one phone may sound like utter madness, especially given what we know about the desperately short life of smartphone batteries, but Yota says the second screen will actually extend your battery life and impress you with its abilities.