Sentence examples for as flop from inspiring English sources

Volcanoes of critical abuse erupted on both sides of the Atlantic: one critic dismissed it as "flop suey".

Playing the community: community is the cards the dealer puts on the table, (known as Flop, which is the first 3 cards, then the turn, which is the next card, then the river, which is the final card).

The names "Steven Spielberg" or "Michael Mann" or, thankfully, "Michael Bay", are not enough in themselves to drive an audience to see a movie, as flops like The Terminal, Miami Vice and The Island attest.

However, the league clarified that "legitimate basketball plays," such as "moving to a spot in order to draw an offensive foul," as well as minor reactions to contact, will not be punished as flops.

Operations counted as FLOPs will be real-valued multiplications (RMULs), additions (RADDs), and divisions (RDIVs).

While pervasive in application, conventional metrics such as flops fail to reflect the complex interrelationships of diverse factors that determine the overall effectiveness of the use of a computing system.

To create the illusion of the parallel Earth – apparent in images such as reversed text – both quickly and cheaply, the production staff inverted the film negatives using an optical process known as "flop-over".

And although Edwards had as many flops as hits, Wasson said, "I position him along the line of Hollywood's greatest directors of comedy, beginning with [ Charlie] Chaplin and continuing with [ Ernst ] Lubitsch [ Preston ] Sturgesand [ Billy ] Wilder

Its all-day grilling of Clinton last fall in Washington was seen largely as a flop, as she deftly dispensed with politically tinged questioning that lacked focus or any new revelations.

In truth, there have been almost as many flops as success stories.

"We were very much under the gun and didn't want it to be as big a flop as everyone was saying it was.