Sentence examples for arising less from inspiring English sources

His poses and attitudes seem borrowed, arising less from any social or psychological condition or biographical facts than from a desire to be as cool as the guys in the movies.

Some critics of the police force have suggested that these reforms are temporary responses, arising less from public pressure than from fear that unless changes are made, the federal government will be asked to intervene and take an oversight role in the department.

But lately, that need arises less and less often.

A "Hil-la-ry!" chant arose, less hopeful than declarative, as if to say, This campaign happened.

Distress over "Dominus Iesus" may arise less from what it says than from what it doesn't say.

The meandering subplots seem to arise less from any narrative conviction than from the desire to do more filming in picturesque locations.

The familiar crash that follows the afternoon cup of coffee or a caffeinated energy drink arises less from the choice of substance than from the dosage.

To Mr. Horsley, who has in the past entered the country without incident, the recent fracas arose less from his past indulgences than a current one.

But the grimness of these heroes arose less from the moral defect of being tempted by evil than from their intimate knowledge of its depths.

In any case, experts say that objections to transsexual inclusion arise less from physiological questions than from vague assumptions of what is natural and what is artificial when it comes to the human body.

To this I would add that as a general rule, the effectiveness of Thurber's cartoons arises less from their clever slice-of-suburban-life captions ("Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted") than from the drawings themselves.