without so much as

To her dismay, however, the young man roughly brushed her aside and went by without so much as a glance at her.

Disappointed with her husband, Mary left home without so much as looking back at him.

The areas of brick hovels without so much as a toilet, which used to shape the cityscape in many districts, have begun to vanish.

For years Microsoft took it, he said, without so much as counterpunch.

It was only then that an elderly gent strolled out of the sauna without so much as seeing us.

We try our luck anyway but are shown away without so much as an offer of a cold one as consolation.

He soon came to a bridge, where he saw a man shivering in the cold without so much as a shirt on him.

She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.

Traders must have found their lives awfully dull, without so much as a currency crisis to get the pulse racing.

But, until recently, most umbilicals were discarded after birth without so much as a second thought.

The debt ceiling was raised without so much as a whimper every other year of W's presidency and guess what.

Just look around you. Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism.

Britain's new coalition government seems intent on bowing out without so much as a whimper.

We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance; the machines, and what they stand for, have won.

The superstar walked through the crowd without so much as turning her face to either side.

But the Security Council broke up without so much as issuing a statement, much less passing any new resolutions or sanctions.

We got thirsty again, and are drinking the same ten-year-old Kool-Aid without so much as asking for ice.

He left the room without so much as closing the door.

"One could write the history of Florentine banking in the 15th century without so much as mentioning the Medici, " he writes.

He was too stupid without so much as writing his own name.

I'm not like a lot of photographers, who take pictures without so much as talking to the people they document.

She came in without so much as saying hello to me.

Many new shipyards are thought to have closed in China without so much as a yelp.

without so much|as a good-bye handshake?

He up and quit the show without so much as a word.

She went away without so much as saying good-bye.

He left without so much as saying goodbye.

He went off without so much as saying he was sorry.

He is poor without so much as a place to live in.

It would be like 36, 000 people staring at 36, 000 monitors each and every day, without so much as a coffee break.

And without so much, as a mere touch

without so much as a word