Sentence examples for he was less close from inspiring English sources

Although he was less close to Freud in later years, he remained in weekly, sometimes daily contact with Hockney and Auerbach, whose striking portrait, in impasto an inch thick, is also in the sale.

He is less close to his Democratic counterpart on the House's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, the more liberal Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York.

Barnes wrote that Thatcher's position on Europe made her a "one-woman awkward squad," but he was cautious about singling Europe out as the sole reason for her downfall: Perhaps what occurred was less close to Shakespeare and Nietzsche than it was to a marriage that runs out of steam and hits the divorce court.

Thomas sent messengers to Bizye, where the blockade was less close, to arrange a relief attempt by Anastasius.

However, despite greater average age of these mice, the average severity of the hepatitis was less (close to significance).

Eventhough the number of ESTs from flowers, shoot apical meristem and suspension cell culture was less, close to 50% of them were generated from 'cold' plaque screening.

The multivariate model provided a valid prediction of grip strength (error 2.9%) but predicted pinch strength was less close to the measured one (error 13.3%) as shown by the examples.

Especially given that outcome, current polls are "a pretty shocking development", Henson said, even if he ultimately expected the presidential race here to be less close than it looks at present because a large number of undecideds will plump for Trump.

Relations with Duncan Smith are less close now.

Both are less close to the earth but very beautiful.

She is perceived as being less close to her father than his other adult children.