Sentence examples for being if not from inspiring English sources

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He's all too readily relegated to being, if not "mad", then "not quite quite" and ("obviously") inferior to Turner.

Certain tuatara organs and traits also display the hallmarks of being, if not quite primitive, at least closer to evolutionary baseline than comparable structures in other animals.

In 2002, she published "To Be the Poet," which consisted of lectures she'd given at Harvard, plus some poems interspersed with thoughts on being, if not the poet, at least a poet.

I quaked and hoped and goofed through my teens, emerging into adulthood as someone who gave a good impression of being, if not exactly relaxed, then able to cope.

Seckelmann made more than 700 of these disruptive broadcasts and can truly lay claim to being, if not the godfather of fake news – that's probably Herodotus, with honourable mentions for Julius Caesar and the Emperor Constantine – then certainly the most noble exponent of its art.

Much of the speech, though, was concerned with security; a political strategy aimed at painting Cameron and the Tories as being, if not soft on terrorism, then ill-equipped to deal with it.

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And they are, if not gone, diminished.

That is if not done properly.

I am nothing if not compliant.

It's possible, if not provable.

Toronto was nothing if not predictable.

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