Sentence examples for material so much as from inspiring English sources

One could hardly wish for a more comprehensive study of Victorian public health than these scholars provide, and my intention is not to critique this material so much as to expand upon it.

Our supposedly algorithmic culture is not a material phenomenon so much as a devotional one, a supplication made to the computers we have allowed to replace gods in our minds, even as we simultaneously claim that science has made us impervious to religion.

These lines don't indicate material wealth, so much as they represent skill in acquiring riches and how it can be done.

The lure is neither the individuals nor the material they perform so much as a more generalized feeling of large-spiritedness that the Ailey company always delivers.

It's not snobbery about the source material that makes this depressing, so much as the sense of someone eagerly jumping on ideas that long ago curdled into cliches, like a tragic uncle suddenly leaping from the dinner table with a cry of "watch this everyone!" and launching into the Gangham Style dance.

He did not seem to be in the business of cleansing his soul so much as his material world; indeed the act was patently self-destructive.

Cliffhangers don't have to tie up loose ends so much as dangle new material.

Perhaps because the focus has shifted from the drug trade to corruption, the new film's publicity materials describe it as "not a sequel so much as a reinvention".

Unlike many novels that treat similar material, this book doesn't request your sympathy so much as your gasping assent.

This time it didn't represent the fruits of inequality so much as the listless mirage of material success.

Those who have made the crossover into movies, especially, become well-known even to people who have never so much as glanced at the source material.