Sentence examples for affair less from inspiring English sources

"Macbeth 1969" is a one-act affair, less than two hours long, so there has necessarily been a great deal of condensing.

Compared to the skilful and cosmopolitan game we know today, Spanish football back in the 1970s and 1980s was a radically different affair – less tiki-taki and more kicky-hacky.

It's a hunched, unwieldy, slappy affair – less Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti by moonlight, more Jaws – but it's as tactile as I'd hoped, the thick, doughy belts of noodle hugging my tongue alongside the pak choi's crunch, the egg and tomato's velvet sweetness, the sauce's umami piquancy.

Analysts are watching the affair less for the cut of Rivera's dress than its effect on the 2012 election, which the PRI hopes will vault it back into the presidency, which it lost in 2000.

If it were just the LSE, the affair would matter less.

If more people actually did what the Bible told them to do their would be less killings, less crime, less divorces, less abuse, less addictions, less affairs, less hate and this world would be a much better place.

Writing about Antonio Tabucchi's Pereira Maintains, he claims: "Novels are like affairs, and small novels are affairs with less history, affairs that involved just a few glances across a dinner table or a single ride together, unspeaking, on a train, and therefore affairs still electric with potential, still heart-quickening, even after the passage of all these years".

Perhaps it is because novels are like affairs, and small novels – with fewer pages of plot to them – are affairs with less history, affairs that involved just a few glances across a dinner table or a single ride together, unspeaking, on a train, and therefore affairs still electric with potential, still heart-quickening, even after the passage of all these years.

The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill 145pp, Profile, £9.99 Susan Hill's supernatural tale is a slender affair - less than 150 pages in a compact format destined to land on bookshops' novelty tables amid the Top Trumps cards and Little Books of Nonsense.

Yet the more one delves into this affair, the less clear it becomes.

The affair came less than a decade after Bradlee's great Watergate triumph.