Sentence examples for defined less from inspiring English sources

Powerboating is defined less by tradition than by innovation: what goes fastest is best.

For a long while, Mies's legacy seemed defined less by his own buildings than by their awful progeny.

But fast food is, of course, defined less by the innovations of chefs than by vast economies of scale.

We are not being forced to vote, and the characters are defined less by any stated beliefs than by the moral texture of their actions.

Xi surrounded himself with a shadow cabinet that was defined less by a single ideology than by school ties and political reliability.

Politics seemed to be defined less by matters of life and death and more by the trivial, as encapsulated by 30-second mud slings.

But he has recently softened that opposition, citing General McChrystal's argument that an occupation is defined less by numbers than by how troops carry out their mission.

Every tragedy lands with stolid dramatic gravity, the characters defined less by their human urges and foibles than by the imposing misery of their circumstances.

The original series is notably cerebral, defined less by James Bond-stuntssthans than by deep contemplation on the hero's part.

Structural considerations were used to replace all conserved cysteine residues, to define less conserved positions, and to decide where to introduce randomized amino acid residues.

The presences in Nash-world are something far less defined and less definable.