Sentence examples for describes not much from inspiring English sources

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A few years earlier Mr. Rush had come across Carver's "Why Don't You Dance?" The story, all of 1,600 words, describes not much more than a man sitting on his lawn among his effects, selling them off in the world's saddest yard sale.

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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.

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.

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.

A 1936 ledger, cataloguing some of the more eccentric objects in the bank's stores, describes it – not much more helpfully – as a "camel pack for carrying gold over deserts".

Short term responsiveness to whole lung lavage (WLL) treatment has been described, however not much information on the long term outcome of molecularly defined patients is yet available.

In short, one can be certain that the present rates of extinction are generally pathologically high even if most of the perhaps 10 million living species have not been described or if not much is known about the 1.5 million species that have been described.

Dr. Coleman, who described himself as "not much of a pill taker," hedged a bit when asked if he planned to use echinacea himself.

The parody pregnancy guide is doing reasonably well on Amazon (one reviewer does describe it as "not much more than a posh version of the Top Tips section/books of Viz magazine" – which is actually high comedy praise indeed).

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