Sentence examples for described not so much from inspiring English sources

The psychoanalytic approach to anxiety, however, is described not so much as a way to treat the specific symptoms of anxiety, but rather as a way to treat the underlying conflicts that may have led to the problem.

Features of the exhibition that are worth noting are an absence of video or any kind of multimedia art, and a shared aesthetic that might be described not so much as ecstatic but celebratory -- albeit in an ironic way.

God is now described not so much as the underlying substance of all things, but as the universal, immanent and sustaining cause of all that exists: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many modes, (i.e., everything that can fall under an infinite intellect)".

Gingrich is described not so much as a serious contender for the Republican nomination as he is an impediment to Romney's need to unify the party and focus on Barack Obama.

LONDON — To explain the appeal of "The Killing," a four-year-old, 20-part, subtitled Danish crime thriller that has become an unexpected hit on British television this winter, it helps to describe not so much what the series has, but what it does not.

It's described as "not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone".

High hopes expressed for this project, described as "not so much a coup d'état as a coup de coeur".

Beckinsale is in the titular role playing a predatory character who has been described as "not so much a coquette as a cougar".

In this wonderful book, several characters in its Irish village setting are described to not so much have ridden as to have partly swapped atoms with their bicycles.

He described fascism not so much as an ideology he favoured but simply as the inevitable consequence of America's political trajectory.

Indeed, the road from here only gets worse for Israel: more sanctions, more boycotts, more divestment and more international isolation; a ramped-up effort by the Palestinians to challenge Israel in international forums; and a relationship with the US that may come to be described as not so much iron-clad but rather increasingly uncertain.