Sentence examples for less to try from inspiring English sources

Her method is less to try to solve the mystery of his life and death than to enact it, to dramatize the mourner's mind as it seeks to understand what happens to the vanished.

What distinguishes Crimmins from most modern political comedy is the refusal to soft-soap his anger, or to filter the politics through a personal lens, far less to try and appear even-handed.

For me, anyway, the point of opinion writing is less to try to shape events, a presumptuous and foolhardy ambition at best, than to help stimulate debate and, from my particular perspective, try to explain why things got the way they are and what they might mean and where they might lead.

"The principal reaction to the experience of Civil War seems to have been less to try to enroll the new science to a specific viewpoint than to aspire to its 'establishment' as a worthwhile step in itself," Michael Hunter wrote in "Establishing the New Science," his 1989 history of the Royal Society.

All you need is a smartphone and 99 cents (or less) to try out one of these debt payoff apps and finally make some progress.

Even worse, the stepsisters cut off their toe and heel, respectively (at their mother's suggestion, no less), to try to fit into the glass slipper.

For decades, older consumers were largely shunned by marketers because they were deemed less wealthy, less likely to try new products and less willing to change brands.

But "Old Europe" also seems less and less inclined to try to lend a helping hand.

Today marked the first time that poetry was used Palestinian poetry, no less -- to try to topple an Israeli government.

Today, younger pastors are less willing to try to finance multimillion-dollar churches with debt.

Moreover, Mr Célestin's absence may have made the government less likely to try systematic fraud.