Sentence examples for expressing something less from inspiring English sources

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He carried his notebook and textbooks loose under his arm, no bag, and he'd clatter them on the stoop carelessly, expressing something less than utter disdain and more than total mastery.

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Yet, after Sunday's game and again Monday, several players expressed something less than total satisfaction with the Giants' defensive effort, with defensive tackle Chris Canty going as far as saying, "There were a lot of miscues and things we have to get cleaned up".

It's a pastoral enchantment without much narrative drive, but Mr. McGregor occasionally finds his stride in creating movement that expresses something less pretty, more intimate about the characters and their desires.

Ridicule is a distinct kind of expression; its substance cannot be repackaged in a less offensive rhetorical form without expressing something very different from what was intended.

He's expressing something emotional.

They were expressing something that has yet to happen.

"I felt he was expressing something," she said, chuckling.

"italics" with increased pitch and speech rate, because it expresses something "that is less important", "a note", or "an explanation".

All of them answered that they rendered "bold" with a decreased pitch and speech rate, because they believe that "bold" expresses "emphasis" or "something important" and "italics" with increased pitch and speech rate, because it expresses something "that is less important", "a note", or "an explanation".

Beneath seemingly silly lyrics about "trollfolk," you can hear an expression of ethnic pride; plenty of other European metal bands (some of them great) express something similar in much less playful terms.

Several commentators were, however, quick to note how unusual it was for an oil company CEO to address the problem of carbon emissions at all, no less express something verging on despair over the prospect of making any progress in curbing them.

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