nothing so much as

idiom

used for emphasis
It looks like nothing so much as a big stick.

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Despite promising a welcome throwback to the sort of down-and-out milieu that authors like Graham Greene once put on the map, this Lawrence Osborne adaptation winds up feeling like nothing so much as a quintessential Netflix movie: Easy to watch and impossible to care about. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025 Hollywood loves nothing so much as self-satire — except maybe getting somebody else to help pay for it. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025 In fact, the workplace in the mid-2020s resembles nothing so much as a jungle, with all sorts of different worker fauna, adapted in various ways to dodge the Great Resentment wave. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 In its very first moments, FX’s Alien: Earth feels like nothing so much as, well, Alien. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 Unfortunately evokes nothing so much as Rappin’ Rodney. Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 18 July 2025 At its most ambitious, The Pitt pressed its stethoscope to the heart of a nation that, in its many crises, resembles nothing so much as an overcrowded emergency room. Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025 Inside are nestled a half-dozen standard-size dumplings of your choice, like nothing so much as a clutch of tiny, steamy babies, with a few drifts of black pepper freshly ground over the top. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025 That ceiling has 160 ornate stalactites, which look like nothing so much as upside-down meringues. Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025

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