Sentence examples for is something short of from inspiring English sources

It is something short of discombobulation, but the mild, mental chafing is irritating enough to demand a remedy.

"There is a bond between all the Democrats who were on the convention floor," Mr. Torricelli pleasantly replied, 'but it is something short of marriage".

Miller's mother wants her son to stop lying, so she sends him to a psychiatrist who would prefer to be called a "mental health professional," though his professionalism is something short of impressive.

Bosses there seem aware that the catalogue's model is old and the image is something short of polished; the new social-media push reflects what will be a new era for it.From a passenger perspective, this is worrying.

But if The Blue Room is something short of a triumph, the reason lies in David Hare's decision to update Schnitzler's 1900 erotic masterpiece, La Ronde, and treat it as an ironic commentary on the gulf between dreams and reality: the result is a curious hybrid that sacrifices much of the original's social satire and lambent melancholy.

This involves developing and trying to vindicate his apparently mode-based approach to the persons (which seem to be God's relating to himself in three ways), showing how these relations may in fact be substantial persons, or specifying a relation which the persons may each bear to the divine essence which is something short of (classical, absolute) identity but much like it.

On this day, the conditions were something short of perfect.

By any measure, it was something short of the final weekend of the mayoral campaign that Mr. Green had expected.

Whatever benefit the visit brings Mr. Giuliani, it will be something short of a happy return for Mr. McCain.

Walking out of the film session after it ended, Donaldson said his presentation was something short of a true Mount Union highlight reel.

When he's funny, he's awfully funny; when he's sad or in physical pain, he's something short of believable.