Sentence examples for lesser orders from inspiring English sources

The people of Porto were once called tripeiros to indicate their preference for, or tolerance of, tripe  and lesser orders of meat.

But then, look again: it cannot be long before you realise that Velázquez, like his puckish admirer Dalí, is not really a conservative at all, that his eye constantly turns away from the centre of power to paint monuments to lesser orders, imperfect bodies, and lower species.

In lesser orders of chivalry, such foreign members would be regarded as having received honorary knighthoods.

Everything else is by default of a lesser order.

Ballet dancers and musical performers teetered less dramatically in a lesser order of peril.

For Francis Falceto, the force behind Éthiopiques, this has been a tragedy of a lesser order.

Such art is perishable -- it is consumed in its creation -- but it is not of a lesser order.

Other magicians and witches also lived on my boyhood bookshelf, but even at 10 years old I sensed that these belonged to a lesser order.

I discovered another kind of disappointment on Sunday night, of a lesser order but keen enough for the person experiencing it: the disappointment of the outvoted judge.

When the Romantics acclaimed Rembrandt as an unsurpassed dramatist of light and color, they turned on its head the assertion that his naturalism belonged to a lesser order of vision than classical idealism.

The problem is addiction, and the idea that an abusive relationship with legal alcohol is of a lesser order than an abusive relationship with illegal drugs, is one of those fake distinctions that would be pitiful if it wasn't so dangerous.