Sentences with phrase «whole house of cards»

It has to because the minute you start seriously investigating those doubts the whole house of cards falls down.

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Maybe the difference in championship probability was miniscule, and there's definitely a non-zero chance the whole house of cards falls apart every time Embiid lands after a dunk or block.

Surely the whole house of cards was about to come tumbling down?

«But if you introduce even the tiniest amount of matter or energy, the whole house of cards collapses.»

Jolting narrative ellipses sometimes threatens to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.

I suspect that this improves the picture on balance, even as it threatens to bring the whole house of cards down with twisted glee.

Lewis Carroll's Alice revolts against the volatile world of Wonderland by literally bringing the whole house of cards down.

Actually, it is the manic pacing of the comedy that bothered me, breathlessly frenetic to a fault, as if Russell couldn't stop for even a moment or his whole house of cards would fall apart into nothingness, which I argue would be appropriate for a movie that uses nihilism as a plot device.

It was old - fashioned horse - trading, sure, but it often proved salutary for the authors, for over time, if they truly had the stuff (and some of them did; if not, the whole house of cards would have collapsed long ago), their international stature would gradually mature, and their readership would inevitably spread like their publishers» waistlines.

Sounds awfully like the banks tricking people into signing ARM's, packing the bad loans into balls of other bad loans, selling them all over the place as investments, then blaming the mortgage holders when the whole house of cards tumbles down.

That's what makes higher housing costs as a percentage of income in Glendale so concerning, because all it takes is one delayed paycheck to send the whole house of cards crashing down for more and more American families.

Budgets may be set, payments may be met, but just one emergency can pull down the whole house of cards.

Any admission of error could be the one that pulls down the whole house of cards.

If they did it would blow their whole house of cards into the shrinking oceans!!!

The whole house of cards falls if lawyers do not enter their time sheets in real time,» noted Leventon.

That's what makes higher housing costs as a percentage of income in Glendale so concerning, because all it takes is one delayed paycheck to send the whole house of cards crashing down for more and more American families.

You don't have to worry about contradicting yourself or accidentally saying something that brings your whole house of cards crashing down.

The real risk is in not cash flowing and having some hiccups / vacancies that make you end up missing payment and have the whole house of cards come crashing down.