Sentence examples for less than straightforward from inspiring English sources

The answers are less than straightforward.

"There were substantially different legal opinions and it became less than straightforward.

Getting the balance right is often less than straightforward – it is also a highly subjective judgement.

Realizing his answer had been less than straightforward, he vowed never to give one like it again.

Actually, the answer -- as with all answers that teenagers give about their behavior -- is less than straightforward.

If something less than straightforward had stuck it might have had a galvanising effect on the others.

Though in a different register, politicians have employed less-than-straightforward language since the dawn of recorded time.

He is nervous in the face of mounting evidence of less-than-straightforward goings on between Unite, the local party and voters in the selection of a candidate for the Falkirk by-election, but he must know that until this mess is finally cleared the progress he's made on energy prices and the cost of living is at risk.

That less-than-straightforward gestation seems hard to believe nowadays, when Brahms's Fourth Symphony is trotted out on concert programmes as a sure-fire way to put bums on seats, with its comfortingly familiar melodies and melancholy, its promise of satisfying symphonic coherence, and its apparently easy appeal to musicians, conductors and audiences.

While many exhibitions are often mysterious or less-than-straightforward for the sake of being so, the enigmas within Tarantallegra are thematically bolstering, rather than a self-important exercise of obfuscation.

But with Democrats demanding nothing less than a straightforward if lengthy path to citizenship, like the provision in the Senate-passed immigration bill, it's questionable whether a compromise could get to President Barack Obama's desk.