Sentence examples for less a model from inspiring English sources

All these months later, the revolution's ardor fading, Tahrir Square feels less a model, more an inspiration.

In the past year, Tom Brady has been less a model quarterback than a model model, though the change in profession isn't official — yet.

The role of Tolkien in The Buried Giant is akin to that of Wodehouse in The Remains of the Day: less a model than a fixed point to be destabilised.

However, as the three last components (five to seven) contained few items (three or less), a model of four components represented the best combination of model fit (R 2 = 51.7%, i.e. explained variance) and parsimoniousness (four components).

For regular movie critics, it has served less as a model than as a set of ideas to react against.

It makes the country seem less like a model and more like a basket case, afflicted by a pathology other nations strive to avoid.

It's not as if anyone should be stunned that a local government in Hudson County, N.J., is something less than a model of efficiency and transparency.

Warner said the Jets will not have to worry about Tebow's complaining about his playing time or being anything less than a model teammate.

Mr. Harrison said it bothers him that Mrs. Clinton may be using New York as a steppingstone to higher office and may be less than a model of integrity.

"Young people have their own ideas," says Shen; with a cigarette in his mouth, he looks less than a model of health.

They have been mired in partisan gridlock and beholden to special interests; the United States constitutes less of a model of democratic governance than it once did.