Anything-but Sentence Examples

Life is anything but easy.

Other than the one time he had lost his temper with her, she had never known him to be anything but gentle.

The look on his face was anything but pleased.

His expression and tone were anything but understanding.

You don't do anything but sit around and stare.

Instead, they act as if time will be a failed product's friend, and it's anything but.

Once Howie succumbed to slumber, his sleep was anything but peaceful.

His tactics would never earn anything but scorn from Kris, but they worked.

We had no idea it was anything but meaningless scribbles.

Few people south of the Balkans dreamed that Bulgaria could be anything but a Russian province, and apprehension was entertained of the results of the union until it was seen that Russia really and entirely disapproved of it.

From the scanty and ill-natured notices of his opponents (Anselm and Abelard), we gather that he refused to recognize the reality of anything but the individual; he treated " the universal substance," says Anselm, as no more than " flatum vocis," a verbal breathing or sound; and in a similar strain he denied any reality to the parts of which a whole, such as a house, is commonly said to be composed.

Samuel Johnson, who was not perhaps the best judge in the world, pronounced his manners to have been " exquisitely elegant "; yet as a courtier he was utterly worsted by Robert Walpole, whose manners were anything but refined, and even by Newcastle.

A system of medicine reared upon anything but a pathological basis would be unworthy of consideration.

In the West the period after Galen affords little evidence of anything but a gradual though unvarying decline in Roman medicine.

The campaign was anything but successful, (1421-27).

Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. It was confusion roughly organized.

Many were the causes which predisposed her to what was, after all, anything but an act of self-renunciation.

He was a man of upright, moderate and pacific intentions, but his pontificate of eleven years was anything but tranquil.

James as a successor to Baron de Staal, the atmosphere seemed anything but favourable to such a rapprochement.

The most important of Guido's treatises, and those which are generally acknowledged to be authentic, are Micrologus Guidonis de disciplina artis musicae, dedicated to Bishop Theodald of Arezzo, and comprising a complete theory of music, in 20 chapters; Musicae Guidonis regulae rhythmicae in antiphonarii sui prologum prolatae, written in trochaic decasyllabics of anything but classical structure; Aliae Guidonis regulae de ignoto cantu, identidem in antiphonarii sui prologum prolatae; and the Epistola Guidonis Michaeli monacho de ignoto cantu, already referred to.

No proof can be advanced to show that this world is anything but the product of natural forces.

But Austria and Russia gave him no time for anything but defence, and it was not until the peace of Jassy (1792) that a breathing space was allowed him in Europe, while Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt and Syria soon called for Turkey's strongest efforts and for the time shattered the old-standing French alliance.

The British government were on the point of demanding reparation for this act in a peremptory manner which could hardly have meant anything but war, but Prince Albert insisted on revising Lord Russell's despatch in a way which gave the American government an opportunity to concede the surrender of the prisoners without humiliation.

Some have supposed the circle of slabs to be the retaining wall of a tumulus; but its structure is not solid enough for such a purpose, and it can hardly be anything but a sacred enclosure.

Czartoryski found the tsar still suffering from remorse at his father's assassination, and incapable of doing anything but talk religion and politics to a small circle of private friends.

He was too unscrupulous and self-centred to play for anything but his own hand.

The Union of Lublin, barely three years old, was anything but consolidated, and in Lithuania it continued to be extremely unpopular.

Nor do any of the remaining works contain anything but what is strictly orthodox.

Under such circumstances it would be folly to look upon them as anything but late productions, at all events later than the Early Version, and equal folly to assign these bulky volumes to the last two years of Wycliffe's 3 See Paues, op. cit.

In moral effect the battle proved anything but a defeat to the Americans, who now drew a cordon of works around Boston, hemming Howe's army in a contracted, and, as it proved, untenable, position.

The scribes show no suspicion, however, of the name's being, anything but a singular.'

In fact, no one can listen to the cheery sound of the little bird's ordinary calls with anything but a hopeful feeling.

To his enemy, Bernard Saisset, he was neither man nor beast, but a statue, "the handsomest man in the world, but unable to do anything but stare fixedly at people without saying a word."

Their relations with Poles and Ruthenians are anything but cordial, and " Jew-baiting " is of frequent occurrence.

The third council of Carthage in 397 forbade anything but Holy Scripture to be read in church; this rule has been adhered to so far as the liturgical epistle and gospel, and occasional additional lessons in the Roman missal are concerned, but in the divine office, on feasts when nine lessons are read at matins, only the first three lessons are taken from Holy Scripture, the next three being taken from the sermons of ecclesiastical writers, and the last three from expositions of the day's gospel; but sometimes the lives or Passions of the saints, or of some particular saints, were substituted for any or all of these breviary lessons.

Here his conduct was anything but diplomatic. He at once announced himself as the protector of the extreme Jacobins in Rome, demanded the expulsion of the French emigres who had taken refuge there, including the "demoiselles Capet," and ordered the fleur-de-lys on the escutcheon of the French embassy to be replaced by a picture of Liberty painted by a French art student.

They were ultimately smuggled out of the country by the British consul at Havre as Mr and Mrs Smith,' arriving at Newhaven "unprovided with anything but the clothes they wore."

It is sufficient to say that at this time, despite the Rouen "conversion," there is no evidence to show that Pascal was in any way a recluse, an ascetic, or in short anything but a young man of great intellectual promise and performance, not indifferent to society, but of weak health.

Arnauld would have undertaken the task himself, but his wiser friends knew that his style was anything but popular, and overruled him.

And if such a character appeared after Mahomet, still he could never be anything but an imitator, like the false prophets who arose about the time of his death and afterwards.

When a pretence was made of opening, with an iron instrument, the mouth of the divine statue, to the accompaniment of recited formulae, this can hardly be termed anything but magic. Similarly, the potency attributed to ushebli-figures and the copies of the Book of the Dead deposited in the tombs is magical in quality.

All this went to feed revival, which, founded on fear, refused to see in Jesus Christ anything but a stern judge, and made the Virgin Mother and Anna the "grandmother" the intercessors; which found consolation in pilgrimages from shrine to shrine; which believed in crude miracles, and in the thought that God could be best served within convent walls.

They made no attempt at theological definition, no pretence at logical arrangement; they were anything but a brief programme of reformation.

It seemed impossible to admit that an animal which lives for years without losing its gills, and is able to propagate in that state, could be anything but a perfect form.

In fact, if others were inclined to ignore it altogether, Tait could hardly realize anything but the connexion between the English Church and the State.

Finally there was a real growth of republicanism, and some rulers - notably Victoria - were wholly out of sympathy with anything but personal, military rule.

Towards the eastern end of this terrace are the scanty remains of a building which can hardly be anything but the temple of Zeus; it appears to have consisted of pronaos, naos or cella, and opisthodomus, and some of the lower drums of the internal columns of the cella were still resting on their foundations.

The great majority of whites were small farmers whose condition was anything but desirable and who constantly encroached upon the Indian lands in the Rappahannock region or penetrated the forests south of the James, several thousand having reached North Carolina.

It is obviously absurd, in the face of the foregoing facts, to regard it as the end of a middle age in anything but in its own field.

The general improbability of the story was so manifest, and the discrepancies were so glaring, that neither then nor at any subsequent time did Charles express anything but amused, FIG.

His religion is, however, anything but an abstraction to the savage, and stands rather for the whole of his concrete life so far as it is penetrated by a spirit of earnest endeavour.

The air is cold and dry, and the warmer season is too short for the production of anything but potatoes and barley.

The difficult subject of the classification of bacteria dates ' The difficulties presented by such minute and simple organisms as the Schizomycetes are due partly to the few " characters " which they possess and partly to the dangers of error in manipulating them; it is anything but an easy matter either to trace the whole development of a single form or to recognize with certainty any one stage in the development unless the others are known.

These marriages suited the views of France and Louis Philippe, who nearly quarrelled in consequence with Great Britain; but both matches were anything but happy.

It was beyond the king's power to give him anything but a clasp of the hand."

But as the duke of Vendome, a much abler general, replaced the captive, the incursion, daring though it was, proved anything but advantageous to the Austrians.

France, too, was soon paralysed by the wars of religion which Elizabeth judiciously fomented with anything but religious motives.

With equal frankness Balaam replied that, though he had come now, he had no power to say anything but what Elohim might put into his mouth.

As Locke cannot consistently mean by God's " goodness " anything but the disposition to give pleasure, it might be inferred that the ultimate standard of right rules of action ought to be the common happiness of the beings affected by the action; but Locke does not explicitly adopt this standard.

In this society, where there was no traffic in anything but wealth and ideas, the soldier was nothing more than an agitator or a parasite.

Power quickly intoxicated him, and his monarchy was therefore anything but parliamentary.

Many of its members were sons of the bourgeoisie, men who having been educated at college, thanks to some charitablt, agency, in the pride of learning, and raised above their original station, were ready for anything but had achieved nothing They bad plenty of talent at c0mmand, were full of classical tirades against tyranny, and, though sensitive enough in their private life, were bloodthirsty butchers in their public relations.

By far the greater part of the table-land, however, is anything but fertile, the principal exceptions being the Tierra de Campos, said to be the chief corn-growing district in Spain, occupying the greater part of Palencia in the north-west of Old Castile, and the Tierra de Barros, in the portion of Badajoz lying to the south of the Guadiana in Estremadura.

The official scholastic theology was anything but evangelical.

Garstang must be followed by more thorough and intensive study before it can be possible to write in more than very general terms of anything but the well-known monuments left by Egyptian kings whose history is already tolerably familiar from other sources.

But a chartered company can never be anything but a transition stage of colonization; sooner or later the state must take the lead.

Of the story itself it is impossible here to give anything but the barest outline, sufficient to show its contrast with the northern version.

I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.

His master said a slave didn't need to remember anything but his master, and he didn't try too hard to remember her.

Cynthia tried, but she was so incredibly honest in every aspect of life it was nearly impossible for her to act anything but as miserable as she felt.

Her perspective of everything was too different now for her to recall what happened with anything but regret.

The information filtered through her skepticism until she admitted he spoke too logically to be anything but right.

She sat back with a frown, unable to feel anything but pity for the half- demon child who knew no acceptance anywhere in life.

They were anything but typical tourists.

I have never known that dog to do anything but growl at vampires.

Given Byrne's job at World Wide, I don't think he was in a position to embezzle anything but the coffee money.

Ethel took one glance at Dean's occupation and knew she had hit neither a financial bonanza nor a stepping-stone to anything but fiscal mediocrity.

I've never known anything but war, from the time I was old enough to ride a horse, until now, when I rule as the oldest of all Tiyan rulers.

He had never imagined anything but vengeance would ever stir his blood like the sweet, brave woman before him did!

Sontag also called air raids cowardly, but said that terrorists who were prepared to die to kill others were anything but cowards.

How Max Clifford kept things hushed HUSH is anything but hushed unless the gossip among its famous clientele must be kept hush-hush.

But despite such a rich canvas of intertextuality, this novel stubbornly refuses to be anything but an old-fashioned yarn on an epic scale.

Mary Ann looked anything but healthy with her pale face, deep set eyes, hungry looking figure and stooping shoulders.

It could be a spluttering mess; it was never going to be anything but a spluttering mess.

Meanwhile publishers continued to churn out TV, movie and comic book tie-ins in a time when such games were anything but formulaic.

There is a general feeling that the Crown Prosecution Service is reluctant to proceed with actions when the case is anything but absolutely watertight.

Reeve is anything but portentous, and even makes an occasional wisecrack at the expense of more self important environmental dystopias.

Nor can it be considered anything but a gain that he was thus induced to expound his views with regard to those topics, and in connexion with those problems, which were the traditional forms of philosophical utterance.

The aggressive attitude of Chile towards Bolivia was causing considerable anxiety, and Argentina and Brazil wished to show that they were united in opposing a policy which aimed at acquiring an extension of territory by force of arms. The feeling of enmity between Chile and Argentina was indeed anything but extinct.

But the obstinate refusal of Joseph to admit that the Rakoczians were anything but rebels was always the insurmountable object in all such negotiations.

The transition from the evolutionist criterion of survival - which in itself it is difficult to regard as anything but non-moral - to the criterion of happiness is effected by means of the psychological argument that pleasure promotes function and that living beings must, upon pain of extinction, sooner or later take pleasure in actions which are conducive to their survival.

To his close intimacy with the princess a guilty character was commonly assigned by contemporary opinion, and their relations formed the subject of numerous popular lampoons, but the scandal was never founded on anything but conjecture and the malice of faction.

Even when the Liberal-Imperialist 0111vier ministry was formed, he maintained at first an anything but benevolent neutrality, and then an open opposition, and it is impossible to be sure whether mere "canniness," or something better, kept him from joining the government of the National Defence, of which he was in a manner the author.

It may be true that, in the comparative scarcity of historical evidence, 12 th-century romances present a more favourable picture o£ chivalry at that earlier time; but even such historical evidence as we possess, when carefully scrutinized, is enough to dispel the illusion that there was any period of the middle ages in which the unselfish championship of " God and the ladies " was anything but a rare exception.

She does not realize that one can be anything but kind-hearted and tender.

He has no time to be anything but a machine.

He wanted to pinch him, push him, do anything but kiss him--a thing everybody did.

When Pierre had gone and the members of the household met together, they began to express their opinions of him as people always do after a new acquaintance has left, but as seldom happens, no one said anything but what was good of him.

He had grown accustomed when going into action to think about anything but what would seem most likely to interest him--the impending danger.

They could not think of anything but how to help her.

They may die tomorrow; why are they thinking of anything but death?

If instead of imagining to ourselves commanders of genius leading the Russian army, we picture that army without any leaders, it could not have done anything but make a return movement toward Moscow, describing an arc in the direction where most provisions were to be found and where the country was richest.

She just rants away at him and the situation is so bizarre nobody can do anything but laugh.

She won't do anything but equivocate about her plans for next weekend.

Gossip is hurtful and mean, and cannot be described as anything but malevolent.

A baby shower sailboat theme is a delightful idea for an anything but ordinary baby shower.

Unlike Walkmans and Discmans, MP3 players are digital, so you never have to carry around anything but the device like you would with a portable CD or cassette player.

Be sure that when you're purchasing one of the Margaritaville machines that you know exactly which one you're getting as they're not always marked with anything but "Margarita Frozen Concoction Maker" or something similar.

Pet owners who have accidentally inhaled clay particulate during litter box cleaning can at least support the fact that breathing in clay dust is anything but pleasant.

For a versatile look in any bedroom, trust the simple beadboard headboard as the base for classic style that is anything but boring.

This sounds plain, but it's anything but.

I'm pretty sure you can sell just about anything but will simply need the appropriate city and state/licenses to do so.

Full of fun, fantasy, and flirt, theatrical makeup can transform people into anything but who they were before stepping onto the stage.

Again, it doesn't have to be Dior or even Lancome, but chalky shadows won't do anything but frustrate you (and look bad no matter what kind of skills you develop!).

Occasionally, you'll come across a fragrance that is seemingly impossible to find at anything but astronomical retail prices.

No matter how much money or thought you've invested in a creepy Halloween suit, your look will do anything but thrill if you forget to add the finishing touches.

While the pay might be non-existent, and the job anything but glamorous, the experience you will obtain is priceless.

Brunoise, a 1/8 by 1/8 by 1/8 inch square cut, is generally too small for anything but garnish.

Try to clear your mind of anything but focus on the object.

When you are overwhelmed, you may not feel like you have the time to do anything but what is causing you stress.

Oftentimes teens, as well as adults, feel they're in a real friendship, only to find out after it's too late that the person they felt was their friend was anything but.

The dresses in this year's collection are anything but boring.

As a result, starving yourself won't do anything but give you a headache.

While high school might seem simple for some, it is anything but for others.

For growing teenage girls, the average weight and height for their age is anything but average.

As you can see, there are many ways to create an iron-rich diet -- one that's anything but boring.

It's easy to believe that a polka dot wedding cake can't be anything but silly.

Flavor is a good area of compromise if you want a dessert that's very different from most but your partner won't hear of anything but a three-tiered, circular white cake.

His role as Captain Jack Sparrow, for whom Depp says he emulated Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards, showed that Depp could do a film with wide appeal while still delivering a performance that was anything but ordinary.

Simpson's start in the music business was anything but ordinary.

If you've seen photos of America Ferrera on the red carpet, you know that she is anything but "ugly."

The two ladies played the best of friends on the show, but off-set it was rumored that they were anything but.

With his full-on Emo hair and guyliner, Pete Wentz seems anything but traditional.

Aside from maybe one or two people from the years these shows have been running, the rest of the shows' main contestants haven't found anything but an opportunity to star in another season of the same show.

Her birth father left her mother before she was born, and her childhood was anything but easy.

There are some children who refuse to go out in public wearing anything but name brand clothing.

Even a simple personal injury case is anything but simple when it involves a cruise ship, because these international floating hotels are not subject to the same laws as companies and individuals within the United States.

There was a time when owners wouldn't think of feeding their new puppies anything but Puppy Chow for the first year of life.

Nudity is customarily imagined as a "natural" state-since we are all born naked-and yet its powerful social and cultural regulation means that it is anything but simple or natural.

I think these trees are unfitted for our climate, and even in Algeria, where many species were planted by the French Government, the result, as I saw it some years ago, was anything but good.

Golf may be anything but the "good walk spoiled" that Mark Twain dubbed it, but it's definitely less fun if it's raining, so quality waterproof golf clothing for men is necessary to carry on enjoying the day.

However, the processes that some cotton products go through make it anything but earth friendly.

This may mean the toys are produced with harsh chemicals and other toxins in ways that are anything but environmentally friendly.

The print may be floral, but the vibe is anything but cute and innocent.

Beyond that, Swimsuits Just for Us sells suits that are anything but boring.

The problem with many "slimming" clothing lines is that they just about squeeze the breath out of you, or they ride up and are anything but comfortable.

Full of bright, bold, rainbow colors, these reading lasses with a matching case is anything but boring!

It's anything but a traditional fighting game, but Super Smash Bros.

This is anything but conventional, but you can get a lot of enjoyment (and calories burned) by playing games in the Raving Rabbid series from Ubisoft.

That's anything but a regular war and speaks volumes to the game's innovation and creativity.

His homecoming is anything but welcoming, though.

You just have to keep an eye on the sales and be anything but a commitment-phobe.

This list is anything but comprehensive, but it does offer many of the more popular options that you'll want to see as you seek out the different iPhone apps available to you.

To aid in this effort, you'll want some of the apps for HTC Droid Incredible, as the pre-installed set is anything but exhaustive.

Long hair is anything but boring, especially considering all of the different hair styles that you have available at your fingertips.

Messy hair is a key part of the emo look, so create a style which is anything but contrived.

Actually, the new naturals are anything but - they're shiny and vibrant, and they transition from one season to the next with ease.

Those wearing the emo trend are often considered "emotional" and misunderstood, but their style is anything but lacking.

Classic doesn't mean boring; these hairstyles are anything but.

Think again because the side fishtail braid is anything but tame.

While you can't do anything but correct creditor reports, you can make sure that closed accounts are reported as closed and paid off accounts are shown as paid off.

Many of the free online mortgage calculators will not give you the option to see a payment amount for anything but a standard, fixed rate.

It sounds simple, but Kirigami is really anything but in some patterns.

The motel itself is a 1960's affair architecturally, and while the rooms are pretty standard, the views are anything but.

Obviously, these cheerleaders are anything but airheads!

Most of the coverups here do anything but cover you!

This suit is only available in black, but don't let that deceive you; this suit is anything but boring.

However, the SI beauties aren't wearing anything but a tan and a thin coat of paint.

Can monokinis really stay in place on anything but the slightest frames?

However, swimsuit designers have come up with many new design ideas that make one piece swimsuits anything but old fashioned.

Covered with a sarong, it just looks like any ordinary one-piece, but once you take that sarong off, you'll look anything but ordinary - and get a lot more attention, too.

Salinas has recreated the traditional one piece, turning it into a high-fashion item that is anything but dull.

This swimsuit is anything but basic black.

The neckline is almost tame when compared to other sexy monokini swimsuits, but the knotted sides connecting the front and back are anything but modest.

The one-piece offerings from Venus are anything but plain.

Some tankini styles are anything but modest as they come in sheer and even see-through styles.

Don't let the wold "traditional" scare you off though; these suits can be anything but boring.

Or shave it all off and go for the Captain Picard look -- anything but the dreaded comb-over.

Taking this acai product probably won't hurt anything but your wallet; however, before believing the fantastic claims of any product that has become a media darling, do your homework instead of wasting your money.

The 1980s have been deemed an era of larger than life proportions - from the big hair to the bold neon colors, fads from this time period were anything but quiet.

It should be noted, however, that the perceived "bargain" is, in many ways, anything but.

The ladies of Bananarama may have dubbed it a "Cruel Summer," but considering just how sweet and surprisingly influential trends of the 1980s have proven to be, it seems those summers were anything but cruel.

If you've chosen a V-neck cardigan with short sleeves and your shirt's neckline permits, you can add a statement necklace to further tie the look together and create a style that's anything but boring.

This type of space heater uses infrared light to heat the air in the room, but while the principle seems simple, the design of an infrared heater is anything but.

Classic versions of RISK and Monopoly differ greatly from the current instructions, but the companies don't always provide you with anything but the current version.

These common kitchen spices are anything but common when you mix them all together.

Plus, if you decide the site isn't for you, you can take your ad down and you haven't lost anything but a few hours of your time.

Plus, if you decide the site isn't for you, you can take your ad down, and you haven't lost anything but a few hours of your time.

You don't want your date thinking that you can't discuss anything but other people; making him or her wonder if you will say something negative about him or her later on to someone else.

Maybe letting him think you're too tired to do anything but then suddenly sit in his lap, feed him his favorite chocolate and tell him how much he means to you.

Some people are afraid to present anything but a diamond with their proposal, but there are several other gemstone engagement rings out there that would be even more perfect.

This type of ring is anything but old-fashioned.

While many of these products are healthful options, others, despite being gluten-free, are anything but healthy.

Despite the origin of the name, carrying a hobo bag today is anything but trampish.

The brand's designs present everything from brazen leopard prints to muted, textured leathers, so these bags are anything but classic or conventional.

With that being said, women on more than one occasion have experienced the embarrassment of having it revealed to them post-purchase, that their handbag may be cute to look at, however it is anything but authentic.

While the background color of this bag is black; it's still anything but boring.

The bags inspired by these classic styles may share similarities in hardware, construction and design, but won't advertise themselves as anything but the brands they actually are.

Virgo is very analytical when it comes to emotions, while Scorpio is anything but clinical.

You don't need anything but your imagination to play these games.

The story takes place during the Civil War and there is plenty of family drama, tragedy, history, and more to keep this from being anything but a fluffy old-fashioned love story gone awry.

Unfortunately, many of these so-called free offers are anything but free.

Make your little white Keds say anything but "mom shoes."

It's also available in neutral tones but the style is anything but plain or simple.

The "tailored" section offers the type of shoes you'd probably wear to the office, although these funky loafers are anything but boring.

They're flats, but the detailing makes them anything but two-dimensional.

His designs are the epitome of Italian style with creative looks that are anything but ordinary.

You won't find standard black pumps in the Rebel line; instead, you'll find a range of colors and materials in styles from dressy to casual that are anything but the norm.

The perfect goes-with-everything shoe, these Mesa Plain Toe Buckle Boots are anything but plain.

These strappy sandals are anything but delicate.

Given its alluring promise, it's no wonder that these shoes appear anything but normal.

The cobbled street setting may have looked typical, but inside the homes the characters' lives were anything but!

The mystery and allure associated with the lower back tattoo was, quite predictably, switched around in urban culture as being a sign of promiscuity and anything but attractive.

If you're lonely, shy, or afraid of others, this simple technique will have you feeling anything but those things.

I love to produce recordings and find artists, and would love to never do anything but that.

They weren't life changing or anything but because of my bunion and working on my feet all day I constantly had an aching foot, and after using Yoga Toes, I no longer had that knot or soreness in my foot."

These recalls do not cost owners anything but are part of the service you are purchasing when you buy the vehicle.

Don't put anything but gas in the car's fuel tank.

If you can't quite get out anything but that one word--at least the person will understand that you're asking for where to go!

There are barely pointed styles and those with extreme points that can't be mistaken for anything but cone, or torpedo, bras.

Vintage lingerie seems positively quaint by today's standards, but pin up girls were anything but dowdy.

This look is done in black, but once you see it, you may have to admit that the look is anything but boring!

When it's made of fishnet, however, it's anything but a cover-up.

There are so many colors out there, from fire-engine red to electric green; they all say anything but boring.

Well, that may have been true in the past, but the gowns that are available today are anything but boring!

Some guys would never put on a pair of anything but regular boxers.

Some guys refuse to sleep in anything but their boxers, while others won't hit the sack without their trusty two-piece PJ suits.

Like traditional honeymoon lingerie, Pampered Passions' bridal collection is white, but it's anything but innocent!

Since this is anything but the case, a bit of patience is required but fabulous things can definitely be found to suit you and your tastes.

Pampered Passions has sheer camis that couldn't be mistaken for anything but lingerie.

Where else can you purchase a utility T-shirt bra (that, by the way, looks anything but utilitarian) and then flip the page and purchase a sexy garter belt?

Although the band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, their sound is anything but country.

The festival was supposed to be the West Coast's answer to Woodstock's peace and love fest, but it was anything but.

Between festive dinners and indulgent desserts, there's barely time to think of anything but food.

Slumber parties are generally for anything but slumbering, so games and other entertainment are very important for the success of the party.

Wilkinson's reputation, however, has been anything but family friendly.

In particular she feuded with Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Barney, who frequently insinuated that Gretchen was only with Jeff for his money and that she didn’t do anything but live off her wealthy boyfriend.

Scattered widely on the surface of their planet, they see the use of robots as a sign of status, and are made helpless at anything but ordering robots to tend to their every need.

Some performers will be recognized from their previous work, but because of the abundant talent and skill of the cast, actors audiences know are unrecognizable as anything but their characters after just a few sentences.

The technology and humanity of Battlestar Galactia is complex and anything but predictable.

The Seelie Court fairies are anything but evil and enjoy hunting, eating good food and dancing.

And, there's no reason for the editor, agent or anybody else to think they're anything but garbage.

While weekend face lifts are usually described as painless and simple, you can imagine from the above description that at times it can be anything but easy!

Even if you are an urban dweller who has never experienced anything but big city living, you can still enjoy the vicarious experience of living in a virtual Farm Town.

Here are some that don't cost anything but time and effort.

When southern soldiers first showed up in Richmond, the uniforms of Confederate soldiers were anything but uniform.

When the state of war had just been established between the kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, a citizen soldier's battle garb was anything but consistent.

While this explanation appears simple, the reality is anything but.

The no-frills dining room is fairly plain, but the food is anything but.

This simple take-out restaurant has anything but a simple menu.

Fighting with each other wasn't going to do anything but play into the hands of those instigating the trouble.

For a moment she was too startled to do anything but stand there.

Bordeaux said nothing was going on and he had never given her reason to think he was anything but truthful.

It would be disrespectful of Cade for her to do anything but defend his honor.

And Mr. Cade has done nothing to make me think he is anything but a normal man who simply enjoys his solitude.

I never knew you thought of me as anything but a housekeeper - an opinionated one at that.

She held firm and didn't reveal anything but she was hesitant to lie directly.

We recognized her voice but I never said anything but my piece; the detailed tip.

It was anything but quiet as an open stairwell was next to me and I could hear shuffling, snoring, farting and grunting throughout the night.

The camera isn't worth anything but she's really disturbed at losing her pictures.

The steep and narrow road was far too dangerous for anything but slow caution.

As much as the brothers hated one another, Rhyn and Tamer were too similar for Gabe to feel anything but amused by the open hostility.

Deidre paced on the beach behind her bungalow, unable to do anything but lecture herself over and over about how stupid she was to sleep with some random stranger.

The path towards the lost souls was anything but direct.

She'd never wear anything but turtlenecks ever again!

The sisters Quincy were anything but a matched pair.

We never discussed anything but the letters and the clothing.

Edith's death was constantly on my mind, but I never for a minute considered anything but suicide.

Josh had left childhood behind long ago and this little frolic in the snow probably looked anything but innocent to him.

He has a hot temper, but this is the first time he was ever anything but gentle with me.

Don't you ever think of anything but that farm?

While her step was anything but sure, Lana forced herself onto the road and walked.

I know, I know, Kris says I'm an angel and angels are supposed to protect humans and you're anything but human but I still want to stay with you.

Ol' Vinnie was a hell of a jock but not 'the most likely' at anything but getting in trouble.

But if Sunday was peaceful, at least by recent standards, Monday was anything but.

Once again there was no evidence to make Jeffrey Byrne's death anything but an accidental drowning.

I didn't show those punks anything but my badge when I hassled them at Baratto's place last Sunday.

The investigation had been anything but that.

Neither Dean nor Fred volunteered any information on why they were in Willoughby's or that the fracas was anything but a mugging.

He was accustomed to being around sophisticated people - and she was anything but that.

He didn't do anything but kiss her.

The rest of the meal was taken up with light conversation about the weather, the clinic, the animals... anything but their feelings about marriage.

I was anything but that last night.

Alex had never been anything but gentle.

She squinted to see it, unable to make out anything but glowing green eyes.

Sirian's coldness had never struck her as anything but rigid discipline and cool thinking.

His anger burned too hot for him to face her, too hot for him to do anything but drive his wired body into the ground with activity.

Taran bowed to Memon, whose dark chuckle was anything but assuring.

Regardless, she didn't like to shoot with anything but a camera - and they didn't need the food.

She woke in the hospital, Alex standing beside her, his expression anything but pleased.

It must have looked anything but innocent.

With these names must clearly be judged the forms Tusci and Etrusci, although these forms must not be regarded as anything but the names given to the Etruscans by the folk among whom they settled.

Furtwangler proposes to find in a statue of which the head is at Bologna, and the body at Dresden, a copy of the Lemnian Athena of Pheidias; but his arguments (Masterpieces, at the beginning) are anything but conclusive.

There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.

The nation had outgrown dependence upon foreigners, and after his death no German emperor interfered with anything but miserable failure in Italian affairs.

The Great Council of Venice was anything but a primitive institution; it was the artificial institution of a late age, which grew at the expense of earlier institutions, of the prince on the one side and of the people on the other.

The relations of the Esths and Letts with their landlords are anything but friendly.

So inefficient, indeed, were the reforms as a whole, and so unsuited to the national character and customs, that the Slavophil critics of a later date could maintain plausibly the paradoxical thesis that in regard to internal administration Peter was anything but a national benefactor.

Marillier further argues that if, on the other hand, there was no bond between god and people but that of the common meal, it does not appear that the god is a totem god; there is no reason why the animal should have been a totem; and in any case this idea of sacrifice can hardly have been anything but a slow growth and consequently not the origin of the practice.

Now the early Christian centuries were anything but a period of scientific research.

But elsewhere there are few passages in which the extremely recondite harmonic style can be with certainty traced to anything but habit.

The present article can only give a brief outline of a subject as intricate as it is vast, frequently also extremely obscure, and rendered still more obscure by the fact that those who have applied themselves to it have too often done so in anything but a scientific spirit.

Nor is the argument that they are a visible manifestation of the continuity of the Church anything but a doubleedged weapon; for, as Father Braun pertinently asks, if these be their symbolism, of what was their disuse in the Church of England for nigh on 3 00 years a symbol?

And the treaty of retrocession was never regarded in Natal as anything but a surrender.

The refusal of the emperor William to entertain this project shows that in such matters his judgment was more correct than that of his counsellor, and the incident proves that the latter had anything but a clear insight into the historical position.