Sentence examples for make something less from inspiring English sources

"Humor doesn't make something less sacred," Mr. Cassity says.

Treat the song like a museum piece and lightly dust around it, or chew on it heartily and make something less recognizable of it?

As a response to the repetition, film-makers have been making more "constructed biopics", taking elements, ideas and themes then mashing them together to make something less familiar.

Instead, he says, it sets out to make something less bad reducing pollution and so on rather than encouraging a fundamental redesign to turn the bad thing into something good.

Anthony Huxley (absorbingly elegant in the astonishingly intricate slow solo in Balanchine's "Square Dance") makes more than Mr. Ulbricht does of Gigue in "Mozartiana," and Antonio Carmena makes something less sensational but larger than Mr. Ulbricht makes of Fall in "The Four Seasons".

From the fifteenth century onwards, it was also used to refer to alterations which were deceptive or which made something less authentic (e.g. adding sand to food grains or water to milk) or the modification of a literary text in the course of printing.

It's hard to imagine a bunch of primates with movie cameras making something less interesting than this terminal stodgeathon in which John Cusack runs around in a tizz attempting to get his family on to an escape Ark as Armageddon approaches and chaos reigns blah blah blah.

And What, Exactly, Makes Something Less Gay? Rep. Tom Brower, who supported the bill, asked if same-sex marriage would "make Hawaii's gay community less gay".

Of course, all his movies are lovely in their way, and he has yet to make a bad one, but after his first four movies all looked like Wes Anderson made them, it's understandable that critics and fans alike began to wish he could make something else, something less hermetically trapped within his own head.

In online parlance, "nerf," after the soft, squishy real-life toys, means to make something drastically less effective.

Why, except for purely selfish reasons, would anybody spend his day in an effort to make something worth less in the afternoon than it was in the morning?