Sentence examples for interesting only in from inspiring English sources

Barely for a moment, in the first two sections of "Gulliver's Travels," does he let us forget that small is interesting only in relation to big.

Indeed, nearly everyone in "Nemesis" is decent, which is unfortunate, because decent characters tend to be interesting only in the company of non-decent ones.

The ancestry of the torrontés is interesting only in that it most definitely bears more than a passing resemblance to the gloriously fragrant muscat.

The Beat Generation is simply the modern American bohemian community, and is interesting only in that it is more drunken, more drugged, more bored, more everything than any other bohemian community.

This almost always results in mediocre drama, because movie stars are usually interesting only in front of a camera; it also results in unreliable portraiture, because the myth almost always gets in the way.

(A typical Moretti finding is that, in eighteenth-century Britain, for instance, the titles of novels grew shorter as the market for novels grew larger — a fact that is "interesting" only in quotes).

"People in Trinidad are interesting only to chaps in universities who want to do compassionate studies about brutes," he is quoted as saying.

In contrast to the compelling baseball expertise of a Bill James, these folks are guilty of metaphorical "inside baseball," the sort of subject-based minutiae that is interesting only to those steeped in the field, or, in the worst case, only to the writer himself or herself.

Meanwhile the story falls flat, interesting only to those who are in the know.

This is interesting only because Nora was taken in by the anti-vamp SWAT team from Sookie's lawn.

Between then and now something happened, so that the country has undoubtedly become more interesting, if only in the way that listening to a domestic dispute in the next-door apartment becomes interesting.