Both are experts in measurement, measuring the more and the less not merely in relation to each other but more importantly in relation to some practical goal they aim to achieve (Statesman 284a e) (on the arts of of measurement, see Lane 1998, Delcomminette 2005, Lafrance 2005, and Sayre 2006).
Someone just might write the new "Wild Thing" or the new "Hey Ya!" Too often, however, less is merely less.
It seems that we get into trouble when we try to be more or less than merely human.
For all the book's continuing interest, we should spend less time merely citing "The Two Cultures," and more time genuinely reconsidering it.
And we surely cannot designate our unblocked mode as less intellectual merely because we cannot easily describe its delights or procedures.
Other options include raising the required grade-point average, which would cut the number of students who qualify, or giving more to exceptional students and less to merely above-average performers.
But the triumph of Honegger's third movement — expressed in a choralelike theme in the violins, optionally bolstered by a trumpet — sounds less convincing: merely hopeful, perhaps, coming early in what was to be a long war.
As it turns out, Less has merely traded one indignity for a series of new ones — in Mexico, Germany, Japan — but first this one in Italy, where he is nominated for a prize no one believes he will win.
Then, assuming the donations are all in at least good condition, if the amount you want to donate of non-cash property has a fair market value of $500 or less, you merely need to enter your non-cash contributions on a certain line on your 1040 form.
