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" There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion."
William Ernest Henley

Meaning of "nothing if not" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NOTHING IF NOT

nothing if not


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NOTHING IF NOT

notepaper · noter · notes · noteworthily · noteworthiness · noteworthy · nothing · nothing but · nothing doing · nothing for it · nothing in it · nothing less than · nothing loath · nothing to choose between · nothing to write home about · nothingarian · nothingarianism · nothingism · nothingness · notice

WORDS THAT END LIKE NOTHING IF NOT

as likely as not · as often as not · bowknot · cannot · Carnot · double knot · forget-me-not · French knot · Gordian knot · have-not · Huguenot · knot · more often than not · not · Pinot · slipknot · snot · tie the knot · topknot · whatnot

Synonyms and antonyms of nothing if not in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nothing if not» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF NOTHING IF NOT

Find out the translation of nothing if not to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nothing if not from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nothing if not» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

如果没有什么
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

nada si no
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nothing if not
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

कुछ भी नहीं अगर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لا شيء إن لم يكن
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ничего, если не
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

nada se não
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কিছুই না হলে
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

rien si elle n´est pas
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tiada apa-apa jika tidak
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

nichts, wenn nicht
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

何もしない場合
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

아무것도 없는 경우
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Apa ora
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có gì nếu không
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஒன்றுமில்லை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नाही तर नाही
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Yoksa bir şey
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nulla se non
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

nic , jeśli nie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

нічого , якщо не
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nimic dacă nu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τίποτα , αν δεν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

niks as dit nie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ingenting om inte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ingenting hvis ikke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nothing if not

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NOTHING IF NOT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of nothing if not
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «nothing if not».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nothing if not

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10 QUOTES WITH «NOTHING IF NOT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nothing if not.
1
Eric Alterman
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
2
Graydon Carter
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
3
Herbert Croly
The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
4
Richard Dreyfuss
I'm nothing if not honest.
5
Alan Dundes
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
6
Craig Ferguson
I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.
7
William Ernest Henley
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
8
Deborah Copaken Kogan
I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.
9
George Meredith
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
10
Jeff Merkley
Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOTHING IF NOT»

Discover the use of nothing if not in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nothing if not and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nothing If Not Critical: Essays on Art and Artists
In this book: nearly a hundred of his finest essays on the subject.
Robert Hughes, 2012
2
The Big Book about Nothing: If Not Now . . . When?
S. F. Pfister. Introduction Mind as it normally functions would almost always prefer something over nothing; it is its nature. But as this book will make clear to you, nothing is far more then the mere absence of something. Nothing speaks to us of  ...
S. F. Pfister, 2009
3
The Writings of Salvian, the Presbyter
Let him give nothing, if not with faith; nothing, if not with entreaty; nothing, if not with prayer; nothing, if not with intention of reckoning that what he has in mind to pay back are God's gifts. Let him think that there is more profit for himself in those  ...
Salvian the Presbyter (Author), Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan (Translator), 2008
4
True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You
True Blood is nothing if not sexy. However, deciding whether sexual liberation is a source of empowerment or oppression for women has long been a difficult issue for feminism. Debates over sexuality — particularly about the roles of sex ...
William Irwin, George A. Dunn, Rebecca Housel, 2010
5
The Nothing that is and the Nothing that is Not: On Death, ...
He pays a visit to the infamous Grushenka, intending to deny God his soul by drinking champagne, eating sausage — Alyosha is nothing if not naive — and sleeping with a fallen woman (the kind-hearted Grushenka refuses to take advantage ...
Steven Carter, 2004
6
Last (w)rites
... and the lungs and Saturn, since Venus is the most emotional planet, the Earth the most sensual, and Saturn the most spiritual, and the heart is nothing if not emotional, the body nothing if not sensual, and the lungs nothing if not spiritual.
John O'Loughlin, 2010
7
Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
To write the way God thinks seems a very large ambition indeed, but Paradise Lost is nothing if not ambitious. The poem repeatedly calls attention to its own ambitiousness, as if we would be in danger of missing it if Milton didn't point it out to ...
Wendy Lesser, 2003
8
Very Little-- Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature
... 'Philosophical research is and remains atheism, which is why philosophy can allow itself "the arrogance of thinking" ' . 2 Philosophy is nothing if not arrogant, and furthermore it should be arrogant, a continual arrogation of the human voice.
Simon Critchley, 2004
9
Nothing that is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch ...
If we accept that the more recent horror films are geared toward a Gen X audience that is nothing if not hyperaware of convention, then we can see that Scream serves as a Gen X paradigm for approaching horror, a paradigm that restructured ...
Sarah Lynn Higley, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, 2004
10
The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance
And what is the Nothing if not infinite? To say that the Nothing is infinite is merely expressing the Nothing's formlessness. One can not capture it, as I have been captured. One can not build with bricks or words around the Nothing, which is ...
‎2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOTHING IF NOT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nothing if not is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The paper-thin horror of a post-Delphian world
But Tim is nothing if not persistent, and with one last poke, the England international collapsed in a heap on the turf, and a rainbow broke out ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
How to . . . become an angel investor
James Caan is nothing if not candid about his early mistakes as an angel investor. “My first investment was in a tech business, and I lost all my ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
3
The Frank Zappa Family Trust Gives Green Light to Alex Winter …
Zappa's life and career were nothing if not fascinating. He remains one of the most influential and respected figures from the music world. «Diffuser.fm, Jul 15»
4
Samantha Crain - "Killer" Video
... into threadbare folk arrangements, and her song “Killer” off of this year's Under Branch & Thorn & Tree is nothing if not a masterful example of ... «Stereogum, Jul 15»
5
The Naturalization Papers
Nabokov was nothing if not unique, but his uniqueness can be oppressive. Whatever he has in common with the great modernists, he also ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
Heroin dealers really deliver (editorial)
I felt safer that way." Proof that drug dealers are nothing if not canny when it comes to the marketplace. After all, they were smart enough to see ... «SILive.com, Jul 15»
7
Smith's 'World' offers safe exploration
In high school, I was nothing if not earnest about my walk with Christ. I wore T-shirts from the Christian bookstore at the mall. I kept a journal ... «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
8
Stop stealing our stuff
... of intellectual property theft, but El Heraldo publisher Ramon “Beto” Fuentes is nothing if not brazen. After all, this former Nogales, Sonora city ... «Nogales International, Jul 15»
9
13 Plymouth pubs and bars you must drink in before you die
Goodbodys' history has been nothing if not varied - and that has helped make it a Plymouth institution. But far from being the refuge of late-night ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»
10
Ashes 2015: Josh Hazlewood hopes Australia can stay on top of Joe …
DERBY: Josh Hazlewood is nothing if not a fast learner. For all the peculiarities of Lord's, the slope and all, there was little that could knock him ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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