The phrase "a quest less" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a truncation or a misphrasing of "a quest less" which does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "In a quest less world, we often find ourselves searching for meaning."
Alternatives: "a journey without" or "an adventure lacking".
"The global triumph of English makes this quest less functionally necessary but more diplomatically desirable".
Its physical, mental and logistical challenges led him and his comically out-of-shape hiking buddy Katz to abandon their quest less than half of the way to Maine.
In hindsight, now that I'm actually high, it seems bizarre that I would seek out pot in a quest to be less defined by the cliches of adult life.
Occasional unwashed dishes and smelly towels are fine; it's when you're tying open the kitchen door to let the stench of unwashed dishes waft out that you've got a major hygiene and self-care problem instead of a quest for doing less with your time... Don't beat yourself up for chilling; it's permitted!
In Thurber's world, sex is less a quest for pleasure or an expression of love than it is the retardation of emotion.
To buy them, and even to read them, is less a quest for a literary experience than it is a form of endorsement and affirmation.
And Mr. Babbitt insisted that the reason for the administration's haste reflected less a quest for a political legacy than a quest to save land that might one day be overrun by development.
I went from one adorable, tightly swaddled (both literally and figuratively) new-born to three kids under age 7. Less explicitly than at work, I was no less on a quest for the perfect home/kids/marriage.
Like the haggis on the Caledonian Sleeper's menu, it represents something less utilitarian – a quest, almost.
Shot in a lustrous but melancholy monochrome entirely appropriate to the movie's sombre tone, Nebraska is less about a quest for a million bucks than a search for meaning late in life, and the sadness that comes when we realise there isn't any.
