Sentence examples for piece of nothing from inspiring English sources

VANDA: You little piece of nothing!

"It's a piece of nothing, you could throw it out and buy a new one.

The Isle of Grain is not an abstract piece of nothing, but a rare wilderness surprisingly close to London.

It's a piece of nothing, but if they take it by force, then at some point they may need to be expelled by force".

"And then the shark stood still, gasping, and that's when they just cut the line and threw him back into the water, like he was a piece of nothing".

That scene in Barry Hannah's "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet" where Jonny Whitelaw is about to hit the golf ball, concentrating so hard on that little piece of nothing, or the scene in a Tim O'Brien story where the indoctrination method for new arrivals is to make them sit in the bleachers and listen to the jungle, both capture the experience perfectly.

When I think of the piece-of-nothing roles that I could be playing, in which your character is just a romantic plot device, your body is your only stock-in-trade, and you effectively have nothing to contribute artistically to the process, I feel very lucky indeed".

He uses parchments and rags, "bits and pieces of nothing, thrown away.

Just make sure it isn't a few chintzy pieces of nothing.

It is an unshowy piece of writing – nothing more, it would seem, than a brother and sister taking a car-ride together after a festive family dinner.

Detective Sgt. Mick Kennedy uses this horrific case as a training exercise for his rookie partner, and every so often the veteran cop dispenses some blunt piece of wisdom ("Nothing can trip you up like compassion") that will come back to haunt them both.