Sentence examples for less a stage from inspiring English sources

Affectlessness is the bedrock of Mr. Maxwell's sensibility, which he has deployed in a mesmerizing series of short plays in which all the world seems to be less a stage than a catatonic ward.

I knew that in 1996, on no less a stage than the courtroom where Andreotti faced a charge of conspiring with the mafia, a witness from within Sicily's crime organisation said the painting had been taken by mafiosi.

It has been seen in Ms. Murray-Smith's native Australia and in the West End in London, where it starred no less a stage luminary than Dame Eileen Atkins.

In the study, researchers from the Medical School of Hanover identified 44 patients who had been infected six months or less, a stage known as acute hepatitis C. Experts say that finding so many cases so early was an impressive feat in itself because up to 80percentt of infected people show no symptoms for years.

The karaoke stage is less a stage and more a small patch of empty floor by the front door.

I have never cared less about a stage duel than about the one here.

Other parts of the collection still felt right for the evening but demanded less of a stage.

She also wanted her new set to feel less like a stage and more "like someone's living room, where everyone's opinion is heard".

But I think any show in which the series feels less like a stage play and more like a visually interesting movie, owes a debt to "The X-Files," it seems to me.

When he flaunted his sadness or his dismay before journalists, it was nothing less than a stage performance aimed at showing the French people that he was just an ordinary man.

On the other hand, Elisabeth often seems to resemble less a stereotypical stage mom than a kind of multiculti Martha Stewart -- a woman hellbent on raising a sensitive, inquisitive kid in a noisy "Rugrats" world.