Diners notice when you don't — and tend to leave lesser tips in response.
French EU diplomacy has a bulldozerish quality that leaves lesser breeds both aggrieved and admiring.
In his youth, Charles was extremely close to Coleridge, whose conversational pyrotechnics often left lesser minds smouldering in their wake.
On hard courts he slides into shots as if playing on clay, an action that would surely leave lesser mortals with dislocated ankles.
The perpetrator had a discerning palate, leaving behind lesser vintages.
This is too neat a coup to not feel distracting, and Watson's well-toned twit is afforded excess airtime, leaving the lesser – and potentially more interesting – members of the gang with insufficient space for their motives to be heard.
Although the United States attorney's office can appeal the decision, Judge Lifland's ruling, in effect, frees two of the officers while leaving intact lesser charges against the other three, who will be sentenced early next month.
The In Memoriam section went well, and for the first time in years we could actually make out the first two being honored, though you have to wonder why Tony Curtis, one of the biggest stars in the list came out so early, leaving much lesser luminaries for later when it is supposed to build in momentum.
However, that pill (allopurinol) wasn't available to the general population until the 1960s, so gout has had plenty of time to develop a heritage and mythology that leaves lesser, more modern conditions seeming decidedly lightweight.
Their best prospects for taking on Mr. Santorum -- among them Edward G. Rendell, the former Philadelphia mayor, and Bob Casey Jr., the state auditor -- took a pass, leaving six lesser-known Democrats to duke it out for the party's nomination.
