Sentence examples for less akin from inspiring English sources

Kate, in her grooming and in her interests, embodies the conservative sensibility that is more or less akin to that of the American preppy.

As a fuzzy-accounting offense, this seems less akin to the subprime mortgage crisis than to the Tasti D-Lite calorie-deflation scandal of 2002.

What they weren't told is that the language is less akin to Russian and more akin to the kind you make up with your kid sister, where different meanings and words are constantly being produced.

This makes "Song of Spider-Man" less akin to a standard anatomy of a disaster than to a post-Watergate memoir like John Dean's "Blind Ambition," in which the teller of the tale shares culpability but at least had an awfully good seat from which to view the crime.

Tourists would be foolish to miss out on its stunning architecture and its many friendly, charismatic residents But I fear that in the public eye these anti-Tesco protests are beginning to appear less akin to a modern David & Goliath narrative and more like a caricature of middle-England at its most snobbish.

It's less akin to Survivor and more like Project Runway or Top Chef, where we are in awe of people's abilities to make a dress out of corn stalks or cook a gourmet meal using only ingredients found in a vending machine.

To leave any less is akin to awarding yourself a discount on the bill, and should only be done when you wish to make a statement that the service was lousy.

The creation of @NeinQuarterly may have been the most productive act of procrastination of his whole career: tweeting, and the challenge of fitting a perfectly crafted observation into 140 characters or less, felt akin in tone to the short aphoristic texts by Adorno and Nietszche about which he was attempting to write his book.

LDS Church members who do not actively participate in worship services or church callings are often called "less-active" (akin to the qualifying expressions non-observant or non-practicing used in relation to members of other religious groups).

This may be marginally less cartoonish than Akin's view, but it is no less unkind or unrealistic.

This is a softer and less confrontational Mr. Akin than what most of the country has seen.