Sentence examples for less than peaceable from inspiring English sources

It led to, among other things, a less than peaceable split with Scott Wilson, his long-time writing partner (although Sultan elects not to name the guitarist in interview), and other members of his team.

(Scott)20100128 ★ 'SWEETGRASS' (No rating, 1 41) A wonderful documentary from Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor about sheep and the quiet and cantankerous Montana herders who watch over this often less-than-peaceable if fascinating kingdom.

It is and it isn't, depending on the roaring wind, the grazing sheep, the herding dogs and the two singing, cursing hired hands — John Ahern and Pat Connolly — who watch over this often-less-than-peaceable kingdom for a long stretch.

Less Than Jake.

Don't take pictures of a charging animal") struck me as a bit obligatory and overblown as we stood listening to it on the riverbank, which this morning seemed nothing less than a Peaceable Kingdom of plover and Egyptian geese, exquisite white-fronted bee-eaters, a troop of chattering monkeys and a raft of hippos lying submerged in the river like speed bumps with eyes.

And they think both that the Assad regime has shown more restraint than it is given credit for and that the opposition has been less peaceable than is often reported.This is not purely cynical.

"Welcome to Pi's Ark!" the boy exclaims, but the group is less a peaceable kingdom sailing toward rebirth than a bunch of irregulars locked in a remorseless struggle for survival.

Instead of a miniature but improved North American city, what Ford created was a broiling, pestilential hellhole of disease, vice and violence, closer to Dodge City than peaceable Dearborn.

Less than 10? Less than five?

— less than sunny light.

Less than I.