Some football statisticians scoff at completion percentage as an evaluation tool, invoking a hypothetical quarterback who completes nothing but ineffective, supershort passes.
But he added, "The communalization of the campaign was so complete, nothing worked".
Reich's music is complete: nothing can be added to it.
One official said that while the inspector general's investigation was not complete, nothing had emerged to implicate General Clark in wrongdoing or leadership failings.
"If you don't want to start everything and complete nothing you need to select where to put your energy," says Daniela Schwarzer of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, a Berlin think-tank.
A few more like this – covering Ohio in the 1970s, say, or Wyoming in the 1900s – and their work will be complete: nothing less than a patchwork quilt of America.
I find Christian Bale totally dull as Batman, I think the villains apart from Heath Ledger's Joker were a complete nothing, and I think they're all too long.
It is at least as bad to be told in private that you are a complete nothing as it is in public to be called weak, naïve and stupid.
One might wonder whether (16) is an abnormic law that completes 'Nothing expands', but (16) is of the wrong form.
"Complete nothing-ness" is logically inconsistent with real existence, so there is a perfectly valid inference from the notion of nothing to non-being (non-esse).
