Sentence examples for devised not so much from inspiring English sources
His comedies were rarely a simple chase, and the best American romantic comedies have drawn on the forms that he devised — not so much, perhaps, in the coarse-grained "Taming of the Shrew" but in "Much Ado About Nothing," with its pair of battling lovers, Beatrice and Benedick.
In the wake of TW3, Sherrin devised and produced Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1964-65) with a nucleus of performers including John Bird, Eleanor Bron, John Fortune and Willie Rushton and a third satirical sketch and discussion show, BBC-3 (1965-66), on which Kenneth Tynan let loose, sotto voce, the "f" word in a discussion on censorship with Mary McCarthy and Robert Robinson.
The deckway is a classic example of the increasing trend by entirely well-meaning architects and town planners to pointlessly over-engineer solutions to cycling, to reinvent the wheel, to devise something that is not so much a solution in search of a problem as a solution that misses the entire point of the problem.
"She's working on a similar program to what she has done in the past, but the difference this year is that she's taking much more of a role in it herself, not so much in devising the program but in executing it and training at a high level.
It may be, for example, that what matters is not so much regime type (democracy or not), but the state's actual capacity to devise and implement policy.
Terrorism is not so much a problem as a new&confusing fact of life that governments&counterterrorist groups must devise methods to stop.
"Not so much, maybe not so much.
Republicans, not so much.
