Sentence examples for behaving more or less from inspiring English sources

When Nate runs into this woman a year later, and she sputters some furious words at him, how guilty should he feel for behaving more or less straightforwardly?

Yet here is Remnick, blithe and witty as anything, behaving more or less as Fred Astaire would, if only a role had been scripted for him by Philip Roth.

The impending demise is always blamed on young people from outside — young people who seem to travel from one event to another, behaving more or less the way a horde of dropped-out fraternity boys might be expected to behave at their first rock festival.

Obama behaved – more or less – like a gentleman.

The general view is that the Germans, after some initial gleeful looting, behaved more or less correctly.

Callow observes: "It is notable that until the day he died, Welles behaved more or less badly on virtually every film he did not direct".

VIOLENCE -- Plenty of western-style mayhem, but this is an adventure for the very young and behaves more or less accordingly.

The organism relies increasingly on a kind of trust the unsentimental expectation that people, individually and collectively, will behave more or less in their rational self-interest.

Anarcho-capitalists, on the contrary, believe that, without government, people will behave more or less the same: we will be just as creative or greedy or competent as we are now, only freer.

After 20 months and $21 million, the investigator that Merck's board hired to examine the company's conduct regarding Vioxx has rendered his verdict: The company behaved more or less perfectly.

The bad part, of course, is that capitalists will always behave more or less like greyhounds chasing a mechanical rabbit, motivated by whatever incentives are put in front of them.