Sentence examples for the something of from inspiring English sources

The something of somewhere is the nothing of nowhere.

He recalls, "She said to me, 'Pedro, the next time you translate a title, ask me, because in English you can't say, "The something of something," because it means absolutely nothing.' I answered that it was a metaphor everyone had to interpret, because it didn't belong to nature.

(Oddly, when I looked up the transmission date, I noticed that that first Leela story was called The Face of Evil, so perhaps that's where I got The Roots of Evil from. But they were all called the Something of Evil, I think!) How much research did you do for The Roots of Evil?

The something for nothing of celebrity culture.

This makes the orphan something of a trophy wife.

That gave the United States something of a self-correcting mechanism.

This made the design something of a challenge for Mr. Beatty.

Try the Trans Documentary Drinking Game, something of a transgender community in-joke.

Wasn't the Kosovo Liberation Army something of a terrorist organisation itself?

That makes the center something of a rarity on Long Island.

Still, the Amflora is something of the pride of Sweden.