Sentences with phrase «than anything resembling»

from the NFL, the problem is clear: Landesmans timid treatment is far tidier than anything resembling the truth.

The only missteps are a few of the kids, especially the youngest; her line readings gravitate more toward soap - commercial territory than anything resembling a performance, but it's a small quibble.

Skull Island is clearly born more out of this culture than anything resembling pent - up demand.

Its best moments are closer to pop - punk and synth - pop than anything resembling traditional hip - hop.

It is more primitive and ancient than anything resembling organized government.

Comprised mostly of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and JavaScript, source code looks more like a mangled car wreck than anything resembling a website.

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Their relationships, Carter says, resemble brotherhood more than anything.

His actions speak a far louder version of Islam than of anything that resembles Christianity.

Is adultery the act of sex with someone other than one's spouse or is it anything resembling an emotional affair where one shares intimate knowledge of oneself, not necessarily physical contact?

As such, it more closely resembles trolling than anything else.

In fact, physics now resembles metaphysics more than anything else, with its theories to explain how realities unobservable by us produce the visible world.

They resemble a cult obsessed who worship power and mammon rather than anything taught from the bible.

The cumulative effect of instances of such «seeing» might add up to faith and trust in a power wiser, greater and nobler than any we know, or, at any rate, it might commence that son of awakening, causing us to ask for a transcendent selfdisclosure that is unlike anything remotely resembling self - aggrandizement.

[I can think of plenty more, starting with this idea that the Bible presents us with a singular picture of «biblical womanhood» that more closely resembles the June Cleaver culture of pre-feminist America than the familial norms of biblical times - not that I'm biased on that one or anything.

Its metaphysics is equally compatible and equally incompatible with the sensibilities of any number of faiths, and of any number of schools within individual faiths; but, if it has anything resembling a theology, it is of the mystical, rather than the dogmatic, kind, and so its doctrinal content is nebulous.

Or about how much I think frosted brownies knock the socks off of unfrosted ones because anything more closely resembling cake is better than anything less closely resembling cake.

It's slightly thicker than water but still no where near anything that resembles yogurt.

A cobbler, on the other hand, has a more dense topping, that sticks to itself, resembling a cake more than anything.

As the game went on their activities more resembled the pit of a stock market than fans at a game; men frantically waving dollars in the air and offering odds on anything and everything.

Iraq is experiencing violence at levels similar to the height of its sectarian civil war more than five years ago, Afghanistan remains riddled with violence, and Libya resembles anything but a stable, secure and functioning state.

The news is even worse for de Blasio now than it was a year ago since the bill does not constitute anything resembling the clean extension he won last June.

Since many fruits and most vegetables have more protein than this, it is difficult to see how anyone could possibly eat such a small amount of protein on a diet containing anything resembling food.

I eat cassava flour tortillas (there is also a handy tortilla recipe on the back of the Otto's Cassava Flour bag), which taste like heaven after not eating anything that resembles a tortilla for more than two years as I sort out my food intolerances and hormonal disregulation.

Focusing on the challenges to the relationship raised by Christian's particular needs would seemingly be enough, without these flourishes that, more than anything, resemble a later - season episode of «Falcon Crest.»

Despite its obvious comparisons to The Hangover, Last Vegas possesses none of that film's distinctive aesthetic or scattered moments of subversion, and the appearance of Jerry Ferrara as the senior wolfpack's hapless fixer only cements the realization that what it resembles more than anything else is late - period Entourage.

Rather than anything close to resembling the state of a mad, insanely heretic love that can conquer all, the lovebirds at the centre of this frustrating film would be more apt to call their love affair «like pleasant».

It's interesting to see a film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.

Honestly, viewers would be better off skimming the Wikipedia entry for this heartwarming true - life tale than sitting through this overwrought, clichéd depiction that values dog reaction shots over anything resembling genuine human emotion.

A 16 bit platformer with a distinct survival - crafting focus, Terraria takes the Minecraft formula and blows it out of proportion into something that more closely resembles a full on RPG than anything else.

It's marginally less racist, sexist, jingoistic, xenophobic and dull than Transformers 2, but it's still a faaaaaaaaar cry from anything resembling good.

Director William Dear infuses the movie with less style than a typical movie - of - the - week, while screenwriter Jonathan Kahn substitutes overt instances of sentimentality for anything even resembling authenticity and genuine emotion.

For his new Switch outing however, Kirby is getting back to basics with a 2D platformer which resembles his classic NES and SNES outings more than anything else.

It would be far easier than it is if there was anything resembling a halfway competent map to aid Avil's navigation around each area.

Yes, the universally reviled Car of Tomorrow is yesterday's news, ending a brief, unhappy fling with one - size - fits - all bodies that resembled garishly colored blobs more than anything sold in showrooms.

Making that snap, crackly pop after a very short time more of an annoyance than anything so much as resembling entertaining

Priced at $ 77,500, which is $ 7,750 more than a standard A7 (the Competition model is based on the pricier, $ 72,300 Prestige edition), this isn't anything resembling an S or RS treatment.

There's enough grunt on tap to get the truck to 60 miles per hour from a standstill reportedly almost two seconds faster than the previous model, but with a curb weight of over 4,500 pounds and transmission that's a bit slow to make decisions, its pace still falls short of anything resembling urgency.

It's a pleasing turnaround for the once - aging Buick nameplate, since not so long ago their cars were more likely to feature turn - signal - on warning chimes than anything vaguely resembling German design.

While it indeed resembles an Acura more than anything else, it would be unfair to the Sonata and its designers to suggest it is a copy, because it isn't.

More than three hundred years before the invention of anything remotely resembling either modern refrigeration or miracle drugs, the humble fruit, dried and grated, was prized (correctly) for keeping meat from rotting, and (wrongly but understandably) as a poultice for warding off the Plague, a.k.a. the Black Death, which had wiped out a full third of Europe's population and was still at its deadly work.

More than 20 dogs, cats and birds, some dead and others diseased, were seized by animal control officers Wednesday from a house that was described as resembling a scene from a horror movie.Officials said the call was one of the worst cases of animal abuse they had ever encountered.A search turned up two dead chickens and one dead guinea fowl inside the house and a rotting carcass on the kitchen counter that could not be identified as a dog, cat or anything else, said Clara Gundy, executive director of the Humane Society of Central Brevard.

Nothing was found within it, but beneath the centre was discovered a round saucer for burning incense, with a long handle, and a curious figurine in clay, whose face was covered by a peculiar grilled arrangement, more resembling a baseball mask than anything else, which was studded with rossettes.»

The next game in Harmonix's beloved music - rhythm franchise more closely resembles the studio's earliest work than anything previous in the franchise.

Whereas Sonic Jump was vertical, Sonic Dash is behind the camera horizontal and resembles the 3D Sonic titles more than anything.

That's idiotic, particularly when the only reason Nintendo is anything is because of the NES, which had 90 % of the games being released and thus ironically resembles the PlayStation experience a lot more than it resembles the current Nintendo one.

In its jaw - dropping ambition and painful excesses it signals the apotheosis of the brand of curator, most prevalent in Europe, who seems more interested in politics than aesthetics and is intent on jettisoning anything resembling spectacle in favor of ponderous pedagogical entreaties.

Although world oil production has exceeded new oil discoveries by a wide margin for more than 20 years, only Sweden and Iceland actually have anything that remotely resembles a plan to effectively cope with a shrinking supply of oil.

There's nothing more unpopular in the US than taxes — they would have to term it a «pollution tax» or at least a «dirty energy tax» if they had any interest in hewing to anything resembling accuracy.

It's arcane terminology and its structure (replete with abstruse definitions, exclusions of liability, unjustified conditions precedent to liability and excessive notice provisions) resembles an insurance policy a lot more than anything one might recognise as a compensatory scheme for victims.

Sam Glover: I guess I would say — and that one is also very cool — the next time there is anything resembling this scale of mobilizing lawyers to address an emergency, I would love to see those websites pop up within 48 hours rather than a week.