Sentence examples for if not simpler from inspiring English sources

Life on these isles is, if not simpler (have you tried getting from A to B on 70 islands?), then more elemental.

It was pure, if not simple, make-believe.

Her book is well organized and comprehensible -- if not simple.

Accountability for individuals who have made terrible mistakes is, if not simple, then reasonably straightforward.

Washington, with its wide lanes, open town square and tasteful white homes with black shutters, is nothing if not simple.

Khemiri offers familiar if not simple emotional territory, a story about a son and his estranged father — complicated by questions of culture and language, racism and violence, metafiction and postmodernity, formal conceit and constraint.

"He characteristically took on big issues and had a knack for conveying complex, sophisticated truths in a way that made them seem, if not simple, at least easily understandable".

The answer is straightforward, if not simple.

If not, simple and fast approaches to estimate the number of nodes can be found in[12, 13].

Another limitation is that the tumours introduced in the phantoms, even if not simple spheres, are of relatively round shapes.

Research on regime change has often wound up chasing events in the post-Soviet world because it has frequently assumed that regime change, if not simple instability, implies a trajectory toward a regime-type endpoint like democracy or autocracy.