Sentence examples for less an idea from inspiring English sources

So goes the fate of Topeka, a city where free speech is less an idea than a lived experience.

For liberals, much of the escalating menace of the past two years has followed the same line — the President's insistence that America is less an idea than a specific heritage, that a judge of "Mexican" heritage is less than equal, that Haitian-Americans and African-Americans came from "shithole nations," and that more Norwegian-Americans would be preferable.

"Pearl Harbor" is the reductio ad absurdum of that boom, which has now produced so many movies, books and TV specials that the greatest generation is less an idea than a brand, useful for selling anything (check out Amazon's Pearl Harbor Store).

"It's more or less an idea to try to make people smile," one told Brown.

Wouldn't it be reassuring if it was more like a physical thing, and less like an idea?

"And they have even less of an idea that dolphins are being killed to catch this fish".

This is what we now recognise as a rather Danish way of going about things, and is less original an idea than the creators suppose.

Refs have often whistled play dead quicker, and with less of an idea of where the puck is, than they did on Monday.

Like Irvine Welsh novels, lads' mags and New Labour, Oasis seem considerably less fantastic an idea now than in the mid-1990s.

"We have no idea exactly how this standoff will be resolved, and even less of an idea exactly when any agreement might be reached," the Capital Economics team said in a note to clients on Friday.

We have little conception of what will happen as the climate warms, but we have even less of an idea what will come from radical "solutions" to climate change that are now in development.