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Sentence Examples By counterfeit coinage was meant not so much the striking of imitations from base metal as coins struck in mints not controlled by the king. The real stress test though for these buildings that Cal and I were just talking about is not so much done by man but by Mother Nature. It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism. It is not so much a movie as a series of badly acted, miserably written, disconnected scenes. In these contexts it's not so much a word struggling to express the inexpressible as a word used to sound good and to avoid real thinking. Perhaps, in both of these cases, it was not so much that signals were misread but that the wrong signals were sent. In the case of online bookstores, the intermedial ground of local retailers is not so much eliminated as displaced. So I still do retain some belief in truth, but not so much in the black and white terms it was taught to me as a child. My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses. I feel fitter, and running my hand over my tummy now and finding there is not so much of it there any more makes me feel great! This is not so much a carelessly structured story as a story made up on the fly. It's not so much the BBC or foreign sources of information that people are turning to. Our admiration of 'em does not so much arise out of their Greatness as Uncommonness. The key to victory is not so much to defeat one's enemy, instead it is to make oneself undefeatable. Their attractiveness lies not so much in their appearance as in the way they carry themselves and behave. Okay, I made that part up, but in all seriousness some people were happy with the romantic interlude while others not so much. They love to learn, not so much to earn, but to explore their innate capacities. When Costley moved in the club had been not so much financially mismanaged as unmanaged. What we have, in fact, is a collection of essays by people who are mostly not so much new technologists as old-time literary types. Thoreau was wedded to Nature not so much for her beauty as for delight in her high companionableness. Show More Sentences For uni students, it would seem, the OE is not so much tradition as the rule. It is characteristic of him that his decision to study natural science and medicine was determined not so much by his reading as by his dreams. A mothers' movement perhaps could be based not so much on our shared values as on indifference to our unshared values. It's not so much the positions we take, it's the sneakiness they can't abide. She was the kind of dog that gave the impression not so much of speed, as of unstoppability. So it's not so much snowblades I have a problem with, but a large proportion of snowbladers, as they pose a risk to other slope users. My own thinking is that he's not so much in need of a keep fit campaign as he's needful of an outlet for all that energy. It is not so much to keep the cash flowing as to satisfy his addiction to writing stories. She left me her journals and memories and pictures, and in 1980 I was not so much hung up as I was a commemorator and an appreciator. What's different now, though, is that feminism appears not so much dead as obsolete. The connection between growth and ideas is not so much logical as psychological. It is not so much a case of dumbing down, as pumping up the volume and giving it back to the people. So Bon Voyage is not so much a propaganda vehicle as a philosophical essay into the nature of truth. Revolutionary France was not so much backward as different in the route it took towards industrialization. His will left everything to his elder daughter and did not so much as mention Ann. Grandfather looked at me in anger, not so much at me, but in the world that bred us to be enemies for no reason. In front of 1500 striking firefighters at a rally in Glasgow yesterday, the somnolent Prescott was not so much demonised as taunted. The film uses a satirical approach, not so much to criticise, but more to sophisticatedly ignore socialist realism. Despite the exclamation mark, he talks in the flat, imperturbable vowels of Sussex, his voice rising not so much in volume as in exasperation. Again, the problem lies not so much in the iniquity of believers, but more pervasively in the logical structure of the religions themselves. Show More Sentences Compared to many places in the world, our level of refugees is not so much a tide as a dribble. One might say that the Victorians are not so much the origin of our present as we are a continuation of theirs. Pit stops on the road are not so much for going to the bathroom as it is to covertly scarf down another spot of drink. Lecturers have been placed in the position where they are not so much leaders as followers of their students. The government of the United States will ask not so much as a by-your-leave. It's not so much a dog pile as it is a mutual agreement that the song was rock bottom and everything else has to be better than that. The great danger, warned an Erewhonian radical, was not so much the existing machines as the runaway speed at which they were evolving. It is not so much an abasement of self as an acknowledgment that one's own way may not be the only or even the best way. But the real issue was not so much the absolute size of the increment, but rather what the others in the Center got relative to oneself. But the point is, it is not so much what you do, but who you pass your time with and in what mood you are. But when we consider the status of women in academe, we may confront not so much a myth as a glass half empty or half full. They are Indian companies with not so much of a global market or mindshare, but with a determination to do or die. Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence. We are not so much worried about being convicted of being illiberal as having the charge even raised in the first place. In short, this study reminds us that power is not so much a matter of discourse as a question of turf. If you go to their site, they seem to be interested not so much in flying stuff to the moon but in selling beef jerky. It is not so much his tactical acumen as his ability to inspire that distinguishes Graeme Souness as a coach. Mr. X's drawing of the joint was not so much useless as directed at a different objective. Rather, these are performative utterances, which do not so much say something as do something. He awoke to a subliminal judder and then a hollow, deep boom that rocked through the fortress and was not so much heard as felt. Show More Sentences I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature. Perhaps what she did was terrible, but not so much more than what had been done to her, and ultimately her execution evened the score. It was hot when I woke but not so much that I couldn't enjoy a brief stroll around the garden, admiring the flowers in the sunshine. It's not so much a person's background that matters, as it is how they envision the future. It is not so much a matter of the Government having a bad immigration policy, but, rather, that it has no policy at all. The differences are not so much in the exterior appearance of the pensile gardens as in the technical solutions. Hanging from an overhang by a bare knuckle with not so much as a carabiner, let alone a safety net to halt your fall, I hear you gasp. Back home Harry and I returned to our window, to look out at the sad, flat landscape under a sky that was not so much leaden as plain tired. What interests us here is not so much the completely irrationality of Carr's ravings, but the underlying reason for it. But New York Times staffers kept mum not so much out of fear of reprisals as out of respect for the institution. They make their money not so much from gas, which yields pennies of profit, but from all the stuff in the store. There is enough diversity among the songs to hold one's interest but not so much fluctuation that the relaxed mood is disrupted. Tsunamis are also not so much about volume displacement as about energy transfer. I would say that she's not so much a kleptomaniac as a generally chaotic person. The historical implies not so much an engagement with the artistic past as with the unfolding quality and specificity of events in time. He's not so much making a statement as he is reacting gutturally to the ominous clamour surrounding him. The big sell-off has been mostly a non-event, though not so much for want of would-be buyers. This book's hours with the poets offer not so much the aesthetics of the avant-garde as those of the guard's van. The Rezillos, arguably Scotland's only bona fide success story from the punk rock years, have not so much re-formed as been reborn. It is not so much that Neil's blend of chippiness and egomania has abated, but that it has simply found its perfect outlet. Show More Sentences This is not so much due to time constraints as due to the fact that I don't feel like putting intense mental effort into it. The gay marriage thing is not so much about beliefs as about politicians saying yea or nay to this, it's not really about the church. It's not so much to produce something of great quality as to prove to yourself that you really can write a novel if you put your mind to it. The solution to the problem is that Corelli's Concerti Grossi are central to the string repertoire but not so much the sonatas. If the artwork shows its age, not so much in style but in graphical chunkiness, the voice acting is excellent. Amusingly, the story is not so much based on the original fairy tale as on the 1991 Disney version of the fairy tale. Striding through the lobby with not so much as a glance at the other occupants, the man closed his umbrella and punched a button on the elevator. The death metallers, of course, come across not so much as being in league with Odin, as they'd like to think, as being a group of bullies. Our sworn opponent may not so much have rejected this truth as failed to grasp it. Rebellions and armed unrest did not so much punctuate as define the history of colonial British America. It was not so much what I heard that annoyed me but the fact that no action was taken. All in all, it was not so much of a race, but more of a demolition derby, the sort of thing you see on dirt tracks in the USA or Australia. This country's gerontocracy is not so much kinder and gentler as paralytic. When it comes to outfitting ladies with the right rig, sometimes it's not so much the holster as the belt. It's not so much God versus Satan as a war between faith and doubt, between belief and apostasy. It turned out, however, that the ocean bottom was not so much the lost world that they sought, but rather a lake under an ice cap. It is because their work is not so much literature as an insider's joke, and most serious readers don't read for risibility, but sensibility. In 1905 itself it was not so much the urban disorders as the peasant risings which most alarmed the government. One area that's not so much a surprise, but one we strongly support is to see the networks strengthening their lineups with original programming. My intention here is not so much to raise doubts about them, however, nor to question their apriorism. Show More Sentences Man longs not so much for deathlessness as for wholeness, wisdom, goodness, and godliness. These days, of course, it is not so much foreign gastronomy that is a mystery as what goes on with food produced under our very noses. Dropping a loaded firearm is not so much a gross violation of gun etiquette as it is an invitation to a lawsuit. The sound that the small bones in your foot make when they break are not so much a crunch as a crack, startlingly loud. And the opposite of faith is not so much doubt as fear, or the rocklike certainty of the closed mind. Stripping in the new burlesque goes only as far as pasties and G-strings, not so much in the interests of taste as in the interests of irony. The party Polaroid is not so much an evocation of a past event as it is an instant fossilization of the present. I hope you are in not so much of a rush that you cannot stay and break bread with us. In both 1914 and 1942, French Canadians rebelled, according to Richard, not so much against the war as against being coerced. Now, they were not so much hampered by rubble and debris as by several inches of sticky yellow mud. It's not so much the money that causes stress, if you ask me, it's the things we do to get it. The intoxication was manifest, not so much in violent behavior as in slightly heightened color and increasing loquacity. I think this is probably not so much about the athletes as it is about us as a society. Milan is not so much the froth on your cappuccino as the crema on your espresso. A garden that is neglected does not so much cease to bear fruit, as it loses its shape and form. Well, not so much lost it as left it behind in the rolling mountains and forested slopes of British Columbia. This patient's history and presentation are rather typical for a sarcoma or metastatic carcinoma but not so much for a lymphoma. Disturbances arose not so much when people were hungry as when they saw an opportunity to alleviate their hunger. The root cause is not so much the drugs trade, as the malignant rat-like nature of the human race. That star is actually a teeny bit older than I am, but not so much as to make a difference. Show More Sentences And there was not so much as a glimpse of the post-punk landscape in sight. The Eye piece is not so much a review as a gentle parody of the literary-biography genre. Having lost one of our major clients last week there's not so much for me to do at work these days. They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw. It's not so much that people are swinging the lead, but that the benefits culture of dependency creates a depression which is hard to get out of. Perhaps I have, or mayhap I have just become used to my surroundings and not so much changed as adapted. For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern. It is not so much that one man's meat is another man's poison as it is that one man's poison is another man's poison. What the better players had remembered, in other words, was not so much the positions of the chess pieces but the overall situations. Scotland is certainly over-peopled, but not so much as it was a century or half a century ago. As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake. The key is not so much to reduce group representation in federal bodies as it is to balance group representation with self-government. The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity. He does precious little with the text, however, registering not so much as a flicker of emotional anguish. The danger is not so much the hit to consumers but a new round of corporate caution and cost-cutting. For the author, the craft of building in timber is not so much carpentry as wizardry. They are workers, after all, and the photographer, he and I agree in discussion, is not so much an intruder as an interrupter. Given that Wallace's primarily a stylist, the question must be asked not so much what he's trying to convey as how he conveys it. Suddenly on the bridge this morning I felt the flimsiness of all my substance, but not so much because I'd missed something. That the actuality of physical existence is not so much a state of being as a process of being. Show More Sentences A lot can be said about this, but Government is only looking at financial matters and not so much at the personal issues. To look upon the ruins and relics of our ancestors does not so much resurrect their world as call to mind its irremediable loss. Teenagers have always used text messaging not so much to convey information as to hang out electronically with friends. You better get practicing on your trad, not so much physically, but mentally. The desire here was not so much to wear a bespoke suit as to find out how much one costs. It has been unfair at the investigative stage and it has been unfair at the trial stage, not so much the judge but the prosecutor. Gift economies are not so much exchanges between two agents as they are transfers, the sheer moving of stuff through webs of human relations. Go to their concerts today and the sensation is not so much one of shock as mind-numbing tedium. They would soon feel reinvigorated because each volume recalls the time when Britain's railways were forging ahead, powered not so much by coal as by self-confidence. We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map. There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much. A successful end to the current talks, in the eyes of the West, would represent not so much compromise as capitulation. It's not so much a matter of overlighting an area as it is making sure there's adequate lighting on the perimeter to allow some accommodation to take place. From the dawn of supercomputing to the 2-in-1 PC, this is not so much a history of computers as it is the story of how we compute. It may have been a confluence of factors, but going bald eagle became not so much a choice as an expectation. Meanwhile, there is not so much as a sentence, or even a clause, about the woebegone state of the episcopate, and its role in hampering the Church's mission. It is the story of a family not so much bound by love and shared experience as by the knowledge that at least one of them saw something nasty in the woodshed. He continues to be enthralled not so much by Earhart as by the process of determining what exactly befell her and her aircraft. His interest was not so much in the buildings themselves but in the qualities that gave a sense of felt knowledge to a space such as light and its reflection. It's not so much that they are lairy or rude or stare at people, they just tend to be a bit loud when hammered and some people tend to take exception to that. Show More Sentences A good example is the chapter by Steven King, who notes that poor relief payments were not so much an alternative to work as a complement to it, supplementing low earnings. He referred not so much to architectural form as to dedication of three altars in one church as symbolising the three persons in the consubstantial unity of God. News is delivered not so much as reportage as an opinion piece. The question of interest is not so much whether they are potent analgesics compared with codeine but, rather, which painful conditions they are effective in. Coral heads, reef sharks and parrot fish shimmer beneath a plane of water so translucent, that a dinghy moored there not so much floats as levitates. The revised suspension has made the ride firmer, but not so much it jars. She was not so much a free spirit as a free agent, which is hardly what a parent is meant to be. Songs did not so much conclude as wind down, one instrument after another going silent until a final few guitar chords reverberated arhythmically. Another year passes and not so much as a tent pole in the ground. What some attendees remember best is not so much the generous hospitality as the rousing speeches which he would deliver to his executive fan club. Simon Russell Beale's Cassius is not so much the scheming Machiavellian, but a timid, bullied character, more resentful than envious of those who hold office. Part geeky film buff, part high-functioning autist, he seems not so much a person, more an assemblage of everything that men think women resent about men. So the heaviness was not so much a literary conceit but something I wanted to talk about. Sufficient moisture must be present to penetrate the testa or seed coat, but not so much that the seed rots or that the oxygen level in the soil is reduced. Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. Petrified, she sat still, not so much as batting an eyelash. There are some really frustrating parts, not so much because it's hard or done poorly, but because they compare so mediocrely to the really good parts. However, the significance of the candidates' list resides not so much in the prospects of the individual contenders as in its heavy tilt towards the conservative camp. For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea. It's not so much the lyrics or the music specifically that moves me. Show More Sentences He was struck, however, not so much by the shabbily dressed and tousle-haired subjects of the photograph, but by the quality of the light in the background. So this bug, it's not so much the germ itself infecting the body that causes the problem, it's the fact that the germ itself produces the toxic chemical? It was in a tiny dark overheated little bar called Niagara, and three women read before me, younger and one not so much younger. I am not so much patronizing the other side, rather I am misprizing ours. It was not so much the price-support system in itself that was irrational, but the level at which prices were set in a context of mixed farming sizes. No gouges, slashes, holes, wounds, cuts, not so much as a scrape. There he began shifting not so much toward the right end of the political spectrum as the nutty one. Enough smarts to speak before the cameras, but not so much smarts that you overpower your husband. His public relations skills are not so much negligible as negative. Bobby Gillespie at 40 is not so much middle-aged as never-aged. Ideally, a couple will have fallen into a pattern not so much of nickel-and-dime quid pro quo, but rather, a more natural exchange of, let's say, in-kind donations. The brute outvoting of one social group by another is not so much Mill's focus as the process by which majority opinion is formed and accepted as legitimate. Most of them, I believe, are altogether vaguer, more non-committal, not so much insisting on the reality of heaven as refusing to believe in the finality of death. Written in 1977, it is not so much a satire at the expense of the nouveau riche as a devastating portrait of marital hatred and middle class joylessness. Although the two men pose for the picture, they, too, are props, for this image is not so much a double portrait as a carefully calibrated technical experiment. Today, Americans have adopted the Stars and Stripes not so much as a symbol of defiance against an aggressor but as an emblem for their grief and mourning for what happened. Those early pictures in the family album showing ladies with hats, veils and scarves and men in dustcoats were not so much fashion statements as a reflection of necessity. We often therefore speak of oral traditions, but the most important element in an oral tradition is not so much the spoken word as it is human memory. Seen from the standpoint of ordinary people, the essential theme of the the eighteenth-century experience was not so much achievement as the fragility and chanciness of life. I'm selfish, egotistical and self-indulgent, but not so much so that I cannot recognise the times when my selfish occupations need to be subordinated to the common good. Show More Sentences Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare. He's maybe not so much a genius himself, or actually have the technical skill to develop computers, but he's probably a guy who recognizes superstars. It took a little while to adjust, not so much to being one of a small number of honkies, but to knowing that this meant more to most of the other protesters than it did to me. This pioneering show was not so much a re-evaluation of the artists as a validation of their importance through their contribution to European symbolism. Such debates, it seems to me, have not so much contributed to greater clarity or definition of the terms, but rather served only to cloud and confuse the issues. United Future is not so much a party as a collection of individuals. Given that colour bars have practically disappeared, it appears that much of Asian social segregation is not so much because of racism, but rather is voluntary. This is not so much an offer of inclusion as an insistence upon it. It's not so much that Popper disagreed with Carnap and other inductivists as that he restated their views in a bizarre and cumbersome terminology. It became apparent that there was, not so much a belief that some people were ineducable, but a complete unwillingness to see these as people worth educating. Later writings were directed not so much by new biblical interpretations as by long accepted conciliar traditions, and inspired, too, by philosophical reasoning. They were actually not so much a nation as a confederacy that welcomed new member tribes, even those of a different linguistic and cultural background. The world of the arts is now not so much your oyster as your pissoir. I may not have mentioned my pyromaniac tendencies before, but one thing leads to another and so soon we had built not so much a bonfire as a conflagration. It's not so much a conspiracy theory as a collective gullibility. Mrs Ritchie, not so much expressing herself, but play-acting. From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used. These days, when your team is in possession, it is not so much what the player with the ball in hand does that counts, it is what the other players do. They are not so much living in the bubble, it's more like a foam party. In The Taming Of The Shrew, courtship and marriage are not so much the result of love but rather an institution of society that people are expected to take part in. Show More Sentences When he dreams his own impossible dream, Jack Abramoff is not so much Don Quixote as Don Corleone. The worry is not so much that someone came up with this cringe-making slogan, but that a higher authority presumably approved it and the resulting expense. It was not so much that her fundament had been booted into touch by the experienced Italian that had made her day, but that she had been there at all. Hopi ear candles are not so much a candle, more a tube made of pure cotton soaked in a healing mixture of beeswax, sage, camomile and other herbs and then dried and rolled. It looks more and more as if he was eased out not so much because of what he did, but because certain elements in the Labour Party wanted rid of him. However their deceit conceals not so much defiance and ineptitude as fear. Once the matter is formulated in this way, however, the important question is not so much the defensibility of the modest essentialist position as its significance. The type of draconian legislation that produces such abuses is not so much designed to tackle terrorism as to manufacture an illusion of it for propagandist purposes. Moreover, their dyslexic subgroup defined by the level of phonological impairment is impaired in suffix deletion and not so much in derivation in sentential contexts. Industrial deskilling does not so much eliminate skill as it relocates it. We have learned to see photographs, not so much as substantive objects, but as flat, dimensionless, even transparent windows that give view to other places and times. Are you getting at the fact that perhaps what we see in religious practice is not so much dissent, active opposition, but a kind of muddling through? That's not so much a problem if you discard objective truth as improbable and inherently unprovable, but by God, if you're going to be religious, do it right. I point this out not so much to place Notley in a French, theoretical context, but to give a context for some of the questions I ask her regarding poetry and poetics. We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. During the first half of September, temperatures usually are not so much affected, but the sunset is obviously earlier compared with in June. It would appear Mr Fry does not so much as pass wind without tweeting about it. The election was fought not so much on the peace issue and what to do with Germany, although those themes played a role. The researchers were not so much interested in signature size for its own sake, but rather as an outward measure of narcissism. Show More Sentences I'M not so much cracking the whip today as pausing from my usual tongue-lashing. She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic. It was not so much what as when for those at the chalkface, who knew what to expect but not when they would be invited to implement it. The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote. Yet as his own account demonstrates, what ensued was not so much willful amnesia as willful misremembering. Directed by Sean Foley, who did a similar job on Morecambe and Wise in The Play What I Wrote, it is not so much Wodehouse as Wodehousian. Though he could brachiate well, he could not so much as scratch an itch with his right hand. But the reading is not so much mathematical as merely arithmetical, not so much a mathematization as an accounting. She's not so much manic or pixie as flighty and, frankly, callous. It's not so much a reunion but a regathering for Philadelphia's finest The Stylistics. They dig solitary walks and dining alone, companionship not so much. But what makes the picture interesting is not so much the forms per se but the antiform, or the way empty space is shared by the forms. Wedge politics is a zero-sum game, based not so much on class as on ressentiment. For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom. A clever gambler wagers just enough to get ahead of the game, but not so much that he could be knocked out. Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon. The Great Wilkie and Little Win were the biggest draw on the halls when you were not so much as a twinkle in your daddy's eye. It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth. The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse. Thus, analytics is not so much concerned with individual analyses or analysis steps, but with the entire methodology. Show More Sentences It is not so much movement in Time of which we are conscious as movement which is timeable. After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition. The Saminess, for their grandparents, was not so much a reflexive matter as something naturalized and implicit. The accent is not so much on the honest man's problems as on the lust-riddenness of the society. In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. The highest point carries not so much a cairn as a rearrangement of some loose rock at the apex of the pyramid. As has been pointed out, the issue of an international language is not so much which, but how. Maya warfare was not so much aimed at destruction of the enemy as the seizure of captives and plunder. All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national beautiful letters. The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master. For all practical social purposes 'race' is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth. They had no buildings, of course, not so much as a reed hut, indeed, they feared the very idea of venturing under a roof. Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them. To put it differently, the use of these here is not so much emotional as discoursive. Some of the criticism targeted at open source software is not so much about OSS itself but about the way it has been adopted. Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much. Democrats cheer the return of McCain as maverick, Republicans not so much. Here McKay and Swift present Pearson not so much as Canada's Prince of Peace, but as a loyal and eager Cold Warrior. The bloke's suit looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like a bandana. He was unquestionably kind, but it was a sort of lazy kindness, owing not so much to gentleheartedness as to a desire to avoid conflict at all cost. Show More Sentences Yet Mr. Weinstein was also markedly buoyant, insisting that the ministudio had not so much failed in its aims as succeeded in ways not widely understood. The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them. They are looking across the Irish Sea, not so much to the Republic, but to the newly-created city of Newry in Northern Ireland for a model for what they are trying to achieve. I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity. I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death. Jesus Christ does not so much impart life as He inbrings life. He believes that identities in the play are not so much lost as they are blended together to create a type of haze through which distinction becomes nearly impossible. The reigning error of his life was, that he mistook the love for the practice of virtue, and was indeed not so much a good man, as the friend of goodness. The intriguing story gleaned from the book, then, is not so much a failed prophecy, but a failed religious vision, ambiguously conceived and incompetently organized. Somewhat surprisingly to some, not so much to others, the amount of quantitative easing had no discernable effect on deflation or deflationary expectations. This work is not so much a revisionist history as it is the demythologization of a law enforcement group as famed as Scotland Yard or the Canadian Mounties. In summer it can get quite busy, but not so much as Glenridding. This ensures that the jury has a broad spectrum of evidence before it, but not so much evidence that is repetitive, inflammatory, or unnecessarily confusing. He appears not so much as a revolt against societal standards as an embodiment of them, being generous, pious, and courteous, opposed to stingy, worldly, and churlish foes. Hence, it is not so much a body of doctrinal statements so much as the process of doctrinal development that is important in Anglican theological identity. Moreover, it was not so much the dispute over the precise nature and reconcilability of two realms of right definitions that took central stage in the row. Today, the issue with external complexity is not so much the growing list of outside forces but the volatility and the unpredictability of these forces. This method of hunting, however, is not so much practised now as formerly, as the antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag. His main contribution was not so much the inventions as the highly disciplined and profitable factory system he set up at Cromford, which was widely emulated. Examples from Classical Literature Its approach was indicated, not so much by any perceptible change of position, as by an increase of apparent magnitude. Painting in Spain was not so much the handmaid, as the bondslave, of the Church. Yet not so much a slave to it, she distinguished, as to Martin's absorption in its development. It is not so much the getting the forage as the amount of accounting that is involved. They are not very heavy, and not so much of a load as your sledge-hammer and adze. For not so much to his own strength as to your laziness does he owe his present aggrandizement. I'm forty-two and not so much of a fool that I ain't a little bit of a physician. But oh, Alden, it was not so much for myself as for others that I planned thus! It was not so much positive doctrines as an attitude of mind that was the ruling spirit in anabaptism and like movements. They were trembling, not so much under the breeze as from the hurrying rhythm of the year. Find more words! 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