Sentence examples for less best from inspiring English sources

John, who died last February at the age of 70, wrote 11 books and never came within hailing distance of healthy sales, much less best sellerdom.

3. Think the filters implemented by traditional publishers are necessary to pick the best and keep out the.... less best?

He's received the directors' trophy twice (Saving Private Ryan in 1998 plus Schindler's List), but he's got one less Best Picture than Milos Forman (Amadeus in 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975) and Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby in 2004, Unforgiven in 1992).

Then again, Riordan's sense of what kids will find interesting or funny is clearly highly attuned, even if it might occasionally strike other, less best-selling adults as somewhat peculiar.

Responding to critics who argue that women deserve to be paid less because they play less (best-of-three sets versus men's best-of-five), she dryly noted that, "for the record, the ladies' final at Wimbledon in 2005 lasted 45 minutes longer than the men's.

SPANNER was always more precise than LCA and less than best BLAST, as best BLAST matches were assigned at the most precise taxonomic rank possible.

3 steps or less is best, a handy acronym even better.

As for makeup, Frenchwomen of almost every age (except those teenagers) regard less as best.

[But] I tend to err on the side of less is best.

Less the best cycling cafe ever more a Welcome Break on the M62.

For one thing, he is a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best.