Sentence examples for it less a feast from inspiring English sources
Reviewing the film for the trade paper Variety, critic Jonathan Holland called it "less a feast than a somewhat rushed, but thoroughly enjoyable, three-course meal", commenting that the main difference from the source novel was the sacrifice of psychological nuance.
In the New York Times, A.O. Scott termed it "less a full-scale comic feast than a buffet of amusing snacks," just the sort of faint praise that puts me on my guard.
Bob Herbert reminds me that every day of the year, not only on Thanksgiving, at least 12 million American families struggle to provide a simple meal for their children, much less a feast.
It is less a full-scale comic feast than a buffet of amusing snacks, and while it does not necessarily exalt or flatter your intelligence, it doesn't treat you like an idiot, either.
Visually, the show is less than a feast, dark suits for the men, black dresses for the women, and bare boards for decor, relieved by snatches of black-and-white film, but the cast is better balanced than it was.
It's a feast for the whole city.
It was a feast, and the courses just kept coming.
It wasn't fancy, but it was a feast.
