Sentence examples for less captivating than from inspiring English sources

The present is far less captivating than the past.

The eye stalls over and again, tripped by the wrangled limbs of those vast, brick-red figures and it seems to me infinitely less captivating than a magnificent work like The Red Room.

Steve Martin, whose second best-selling short novel ("The Pleasure of My Company") is much less captivating than his first ("Shopgirl"), this time also writes lines that aren't complete without the sound of his vocal delivery.

While Cheika might have rested easy in his bed if Folau had failed to pass muster – the former rugby league and Australian Rules player has been less captivating than usual over the course of this tournament, so the coach must have been tempted to run the brilliant Kurtley Beale in his place – the loss of Sio would have wrecked his peace of mind.

And yet, Ms. Welty's mundane photos of old clothes, books, magazines and medicines headed for the trash or recycling is reminiscent of — though considerably less captivating than — the British artist Michael Landy's "Break Down" (2001), in which he employed a team to pulverize more than 7,000 of his possessions, including his Saab and his art collection.

But warmer ocean temperatures are far less captivating than sharks leaping from the water.

Fancher, who just turned 79, was no less captivating than on the silver and small screen: "One thing I have to say is that [Blade Runner 2049] is better than the original," he told the audience.

But the quest for grace that spurred Evelyn Waugh is less captivating to viewers than the nostalgia for a lost, ostensibly better world.