Sentence examples for less a shock from inspiring English sources

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In Russia, the bombings were less a shock than a grim reminder of that country's own recent terrorist attacks, including one with striking parallels to events in Madrid.

Poignant and depressing though David Laws' resignation on Saturday night certainly was, at least it was less a shock than it might have been.

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The results are less a shock-of-the-new revelation than a revelatory confirmation of realities until now incompletely known.

But good prose is so much less of a mystery, finally, so much less of a shock, than bad prose.

If the person can help to decide when to stop driving, it may be less of a shock and it will certainly be less of an argument.

It is less of a shock.

Willow Wind Tenure, offered less of a shock.

The victory was nothing less than a shock.

Perhaps this should have come as less of a shock.

Agassi's defeat by Switzerland's Roger Federer had hurt but was less of a shock.

He should be far less of a shock to this country than he continues to be.

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