His flattery of stars-to-be was as nothing compared with his wooing of his Hollywood favourites.
This group can be characterized as nothing more than idealists, or peaceniks as they've been formerly called.
While such an attitude was misguided before the Kuwait crisis, today it can be seen as nothing less than irresponsible.
If the embarrassment could somehow be dismissed as nothing but a blip in a meaningless fixture, worse came when they played a match that definitely mattered.
Weather forecasters say the snow flurries will be nothing like as widespread as at the weekend.
Until east London produces its own Facebook or Apple, British investors will be nothing like as bullish.
Yet, as inappropriate as achieving nothing may seem, it may be exactly what we, as leaders, are looking for.
The word "active" may be misleading, as active drowning is nothing like what you usually see on TV.
"I didn't expect it, to be honest, as yesterday I holed nothing and nothing went right, " said Hartlepool's Storm.
And then in terms of the Sanders amendment, Sanders says that -- and the amendment says that nothing shall be construed as interfering with monetary policy.
There was widespread speculation as to what would be in the austerity plan but, for a while, it seemed as if the government was happy for nothing to be confirmed.
Nothing would be so effective as a strong economy and a tight labour market.
Up until recently there was nothing that could be done as the heart does not adequately regenerate itself.
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While there were "irritants on both sides", such problems could not be used "as an excuse to do nothing", he said.
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Even if the planets did all line up perfectly there would be nothing to worry about, as a number of astronomers have demonstrated.
But simply doing something because it must be better than doing nothing strikes me as a foolish endeavor or at least terribly risky.
Mr Williamson's middle way can be seen, if nothing else, as an attempt to replace this ad hoc non-system with something less muddled.
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Brecht could hardly have imagined such a document: a capitalist enterprise that feeds on the misery of man trying as hard as it can to be sure that nothing is done to decrease that misery.
But in his joint news briefing with Mr Abbas, he said such problems could not be used "as an excuse to do nothing", and neither side could expect to resolve every outstanding issue before talks resumed.
The payroll-tax cut has only been extended for two months, ensuring that the rest of the year will be punctuated with fiscal skirmishes, even as nothing is done to deal with America's medium-term fiscal mess, or to smooth the huge tax hikes and spending cuts that loom at the end of 2012 under current law.
"I think a McCain presidency - especially with Ms Palin as vice-president - would be nothing short of catastrophic, " he said.
Big flat-panel displays are bound to get bigger and even better, and there's nothing to be said against them as necessary substitutes for theatrical screens.
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Mr Thompson, who is now the incoming chief executive of the New York Times, told the paper he had done nothing "that could be construed as untoward".
Complexity can however be used as one of many reasons for doing nothing, moving too slowly to change or not fully including those who use and depend on services.
If the proposal actually does get drafted and announced that month, and subsequently presented to the new Diet session next month (as planned), it will be nothing short of miraculous.
Nor does it help that Jamie is so withdrawn as to be downright dull. (Nothing is harder to write than an interesting play about a dull person.) The biggest problem of all is the ending, which feels contrived rather than earned, just as Mark Wendland's picture-puzzle set is too explicitly symbolic of the play's theme.
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The folks at Mudcu.be, who built a lovely color piano music visualizer have nothing to do with Belgium as far as I can tell, but the .be suffix makes for a handy branding opportunity.
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