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 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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