Sentence examples for less in the present from inspiring English sources

Sure, "Our Kind of Traitor" takes place more or less in the present.

The action is placed more or less in the present; the sets, by Richard Peduzzi, suggest a grand bourgeois home, but nothing is too specific.

The original Daniel — Daniel1 — lives more or less in the present era, in Paris and Andalusia, and his latest edition, Daniel25, lives two millennia hence, in a depopulated Spain.

Set more or less in the present, the Lone Man's journey gets going in an airport where he receives some vaguely philosophical directives from a suave number played by the French actor Alex Descas and credited as Creole.

Subsequent works dealing with more contemporary themes, such as Diary of a Snail and The Flounder, received a lukewarm response from critics who noted that Grass's main weakness was that he had difficulty in telling a story set more or less in the present.

The first and last scenes, set more or less in the present, find the 22-year-old Abbey (Chris Messina) at the rural vacation home of his parents with his college pal Donald Daniel Eric Goldd) on the birthday they happen to share.

Since migraineurs, especially female migraineurs, tended to consume alcohol less frequently in the present study, they may have had less opportunity to develop tolerance to hangovers.

A column by Marc Fisher in The Washington Post yesterday began on a mocking note that would have been unthinkable a week ago but which rings less hollowly in the present context.

While accurate relationships have been found for spruce forests in Norway, the relationship was less accurate in the present miombo woodlands, when calculated as relative RMSE.

But this pattern was less unclear in the present study as it might be other possible factors that affecting Preference such as media coverage.

As compared with 1D planar flames, the fuel transport caused by convection is less significant in the present 2D lean limit flames for the three different fuel compositions.