Sentence examples for less proper than from inspiring English sources
But Washington was as absorbed about the propriety of a first lady having such a central role in the Oscars, suggesting it was less proper than, say, a president throwing out a baseball pitch or flipping pancakes in Iowa in the courting of voters.
Now consider the third fracture pattern in Fig. 4; although it seems visually to be less proper than the pattern in the left part of Fig. 3, however, they have the same degree of connectivity measures mathematically.
Even if single imputation is a less proper procedure than multiple imputations when handling missing data, the differences between the methods would have been smaller if the same logistic regression model had been used for simulating the single imputations.
The epicentre of tech lies less in San Francisco proper than in Silicon Valley to the south (Tech Insider's list conflates the two).
However, when the movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, The London Review of Books said it was "less a documentary proper than an enthusiast's rambling blog".
Keegan visited Cameron on the set of "Avatar" for Time magazine in 2008 and decided to turn her article into a book, which is less a biography proper than a set visit by someone who got carried away with access to the great and mighty Oz: "Cameron's brain is formidable, fascinating and equally developed on both sides".
In the Oxford Martin report that ranks 702 current jobs in terms of their likelihood to be automated, dancer and choreographer are among those least likely to be affected, considerably less than "proper" jobs like lawyer and accountant.
It's easier to sell a novel than a weird hybrid of essay and fiction and family and national history, although it's really the latter — both fiction and something that is not quite fiction but less than proper history or memoir".
It's possible, too, that its internal investigation will discover that other international success stories have a less than proper foundation, and that the scandal may repeat for a little while.
With "Swimming Studies" she's composed a volume that is less a proper memoir than a collection of flickering sketches.
Hello's dewy modesty, however, was born less of proper British restraint than of shrewd business practice.
