Sentence examples for bad sums from inspiring English sources

I'm not saying that there are bad sums at work here.

Where a child already has low self-esteem, due perhaps to having a dad like me, the more inflated the praise offered to their hamfisted paintings or bad sums, the less likely they are to be motivated to do it again.

Ambiguous Venice – not a bad summing up of the way it mixes majesty with melancholy.

"From student activism to pornography to show-business dandy," he writes of Oshima and other radicals, "not a bad summing up of postwar Japanese culture".

The firm will pay them a retention fee of about £14,000 - not like winning the lottery, but not a bad sum for doing, er, nothing.

It's not a bad sum for a small house on a highway, but Mr. Jones's mortgage is paid off and his taxes are low, and he says his monthly costs are close to nothing.

"We paid him £1 a page and he'd come in with 20 pages and I'd check them against the French originals and he'd walk away with £20 cash - not a bad sum in those days.

"Two million's not a bad sum," he says, talking me through the kind of fees corporate spies can receive.

Good at drawing, but bad at sums, he was sent to Public School 139, and found he was good at sports.

Cheaper than a penny stock It's not a good thing Cautionary tales Keep it weak Miscalculation Taking stock Judicial publication Our new financial column ReprintsOf course, not all of this can be blamed on the bad inflation sums.

In an interview with the museum's curator, Alejandro Anreus, Mr. Beck says he once heard a visitor to one of his shows characterize the work as "Norman Rockwell gone bad". That sums up his territory: Mr. Beck seems determined to take America's pulse at the end of the century, and it races.