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Despite having a lot on its mind about our disconnected 21st century lives and the creeping anxieties of a liberal society crumbling perhaps beyond repair, The Light (Das Licht) is about nothing so much as its own ostentatious virtuosity.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
The instrument of a civilization that had been waiting for nothing so much as to plunge out into those waters.
—Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024
This is particularly apparent in Pearce’s Harrison Lee Van Buren, who, with his tawny skin and bristly mustache, resembles nothing so much as a lion ready to pounce.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Yet from Munich to the Cuban missile crisis to nuclear proliferation, recent history is replete with instances of international politics resembling nothing so much as a poker game.
—David A. Bell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
The concert hall, constructed of curving amber-colored wood, resembles nothing so much as the interior of a giant cello.
—Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
And Maddie will soon be wishing for nothing so much as to have her wish undone.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
Without it, the internet would resemble nothing so much as an after-hours arcade, lifeless and dark.
—Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
In the course of the book, the diminutive economist, who stood just over five feet tall, comes to seem like nothing so much as a welterweight boxer.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
The instrument of a civilization that had been waiting for nothing so much as to plunge out into those waters.
—Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024
This is particularly apparent in Pearce’s Harrison Lee Van Buren, who, with his tawny skin and bristly mustache, resembles nothing so much as a lion ready to pounce.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Yet from Munich to the Cuban missile crisis to nuclear proliferation, recent history is replete with instances of international politics resembling nothing so much as a poker game.
—David A. Bell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
The concert hall, constructed of curving amber-colored wood, resembles nothing so much as the interior of a giant cello.
—Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
And Maddie will soon be wishing for nothing so much as to have her wish undone.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
Without it, the internet would resemble nothing so much as an after-hours arcade, lifeless and dark.
—Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
In the course of the book, the diminutive economist, who stood just over five feet tall, comes to seem like nothing so much as a welterweight boxer.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
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“Nothing so much as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nothing%20so%20much%20as. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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