The phrase "a less successfully" is not correct in standard written English.
It is likely intended to convey a comparison of success, but the structure is awkward and does not follow conventional grammar rules.
Example: "The project was a less successful attempt than the previous one."
Alternatives: "a less successful" or "not as successful".
The big dance grooves of Live Like a River and (less successfully) Man vs Dingo cast a wry glance towards the three Doves' early 90s dance act, Sub Sub.
Born in Brooklyn and educated at Cooper Union, Rohlfs made his living as a foundry patternmaker, a designer of cast-iron stoves and (less successfully) a Shakespearean actor before getting into cabinetry.
Called the cradle of Rome because they found and raised babies in it — Romulus and Remus, according to tradition — it has by turns been the seat of the rich and powerful, an abandoned waste, a luxury escape for Renaissance popes, and now, less successfully, a mass of excavations.
Even if it wanted to, Russia simply lacks the force structure to execute such an invasion much less successfully occupy Western Europe.
Amazingly prolific, Mercer made contributions over the course of his career to more than 90 movies and (less successfully) a number of Broadway musicals.
Her subsequent film career has been punctuated by stage appearances, most notably in Neil LaBute's provocative The Shape of Things, where she played the girlfriend from hell, a role she reprised less successfully in the more muddled screen version.
He was a notable Shakespearean at Stratford-upon-Avon either side of his early film stint, playing a booming, militaristic King Lear ("Let me not stay a jot for dinner … dinner, ho, dinner!" has never sounded so heartfelt) in the same season as Benedick and, soon after, less successfully, a blacked-up Othello.
He also spent time, less successfully, as a red deer and a swift.
This and other physical-exam techniques are part of a disappearing tradition in medicine — replaced more or (in this case) less successfully with a variety of high-tech imaging techniques.
None the less, successfully turning a series of potty-mouthed songs into an hour-long stand-up and musical-comedy show was not a given.
