Sentence examples for become not so much from inspiring English sources

But the game as it's played has become not so much brutal as just dull.

"But I do think it's become not so much about him as about a cause".

But when it comes to homosexuality, many Italians become not so much intolerant as uneasy.In this millennial year, millions of pilgrims are flocking to Rome.

Barley said it Cheltenham had become "not so much a literary festival as a festival of ideas, famous people and celebrity".

With sculpture and large-scale installations, the 2D print has become not so much outdated, but rather had to give up its monopoly over the art world and make way for more innovative uses of space.

Ponting wants this redemption after last year's Ashes loss in England – and the all-pervading sense that in the second-innings total of 517 for 1 achieved by his opponents at The Gabba last weekend an unbreakable psychological edge was created – so badly it has become not so much a compelling aspect of the unfolding series but one man's fight to hang on to his identity.

Orwell became not so much anti-revolutionary as anti-revolution.

"Later on competing became not so much fun".

It became not so much a deliberation as a marathon reading session.

My novel became not so much a fictional exercise as a process of discovery.

So, he became not so much the great redeemer, as the great dissembler.