amounted

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Surrealism was a genuine addition to the repertoire of avant-garde arts, its novelty attested by the ability to produce shock, incomprehension, or what amounted to the same thing, a sometimes, embarrassed laughter, even among the older avant-garde. Eric Hobsbawm

It could be all unwittingly that I wrote in Darkness Visible what amounted to a Rosetta stone for my other work. William Styron

The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room. Anthony Trollope

Sure enough, the notion of decoding their personal DNA appealed to more than a few well-off individuals, even if it amounted to the scientific equivalent of purchasing a vanity license plate. James D. Watson

Domestication involved the initiation of production, vastly increased divisions of labor, and the completed foundations of social stratification. This amounted to an epochal mutation both in the character of human existence and its development, clouding the latter with ever more violence and work. John Zerzan

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. Tess Gerritsen