Sentence examples for less the object of from inspiring English sources

He may have been free from captivity, but was no less the object of gawking.

Betrayal is about Robert and Jerry, and Emma as the woman who's less the object of their affection than the catalyst, and complicator, for the deep bonds between them.

He also turned his attention to the regions that were less the objects of Moghul interest.

"I would have felt less wounded if the object of ridicule were my own parents".

It's so much less about the objects of our affection and more about ourselves and our relationship to limerence.

Trying to break free from the idealistic tradition to which Ranke still adhered, Droysen makes the case for a theory of history that, like the methodology of the natural sciences, has less to do with the object of study (history or nature) than with the manner in which the study is carried out.

"Get 'em before they're 10!" Dear Diary: Texans have long been the object of less than flattering characterizations with respect to their intellect -- unfairly so, they insist.

What's required, argues Campbell, is a conception of experience as something less than conceptual representation of the object of experience, but which nonetheless has the resources to explain how experience of an object can provide one with a form of knowledge of the semantic value of a demonstrative that refers to it.

When it became clear that the Pedant was in charge of the galley that evening, and, moreover, was proposing a main course that sounded like plain cooking mucked around with, I felt myself the object of a less than entirely dispassionate gaze.

The object of their desires?

(The clause is the object of on).