Sentence examples for less the work of from inspiring English sources

Failure is less the work of political correctness and more the evidence of a morally inadequate imagination from those who already have the stage.

It is in some ways a smaller, simpler film than either "Talk to Her" or "Bad Education," choosing to tell its story without flashbacks or intricate parallel plots, but it is no less the work of a master.

More than 5,000 of them teach at four-year colleges, according to the American Philosophical Association, but few Americans would be able to recognize the name, much less the work, of a single one.

The reviewer's sarcastic reactions to the book's familiar arguments about the respective sex drives of men and women ("I would never have thought it, would you?") are less the work of a hatchet than a sharp elbow to the ribs.

As absolute rulers understand even today, nothing undermines them like ridicule, and if the French were the first Europeans to have their revolution, it may have been less the work of les philosophes than of Molière, Voltaire, and Beaumarchais, the kings of comedy.

Featuring a cast of beauties made to look like bulimic vampires, "The Neon Demon" may be no less the work of a director with his head (and camera) somewhere in the vicinity of his colon.

It pays homage less to the work of Judd Apatow or any other boy-comedy auteur than to the slick supernatural hokum of M. Night Shyamalan.

Submissions, which must be original, unpublished fiction of 2,500 words or less and the work of a sole author, are due by Sunday, March 24 , 2019 at 11 59p.m. EDT.

A review of his biography of Delmore Schwartz said it seemed less like the work of a scholar than the work of someone who liked to talk on the phone with a cup of steaming coffee by his side.

If you want to read a single book of modest length on the lives (less so the work) of the later Romantics, this might very well be the one.

He likes to shock, it's true, but his serious engagement with fundamental questions gives his work a bracing quality that links it less to the work of his contemporaries than to that of an earlier generation of auteurs.