Sentence examples for more than prop from inspiring English sources

Seeing how racialized media figures are treated, especially after this week's "unblackening" of American and Canadian media, the industry has to do more than prop a non-white male on set to show an invested approach to diversification.

To Cassie, books are more than props.

But those sources of income have accomplished little more than propping up an ailing economy.

(The occasional males, on the other hand, serve as little more than props).

Indeed, the puppets here are decidedly secondary figures, not much more than props.

Black women are more than props and more than interchangeable stock images employed to convey a sassy reaction to a white star's plotline.

While cheerleading at the high school and collegiate levels has become competitive and athletic, today's N.F.L. cheerleaders are little more than props that reinforce objectified sex roles.

The men, the article argued, are little more than props on a porn set, often earning at least 50percentt less than the women.

But the 33-year-old Mr. Singleton, who grew up in the South-Central section of Los Angeles, is after more than props.

Although the books of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen decorated our shelves, they were little more than props from the days when our faith-doubting father sought Catholic church blessing to marry our mother, an Irish farm girl who had been orphaned and then air-mailed to relatives in Brooklyn.

It seems pretty clear that films that feature women as more than props for male characters sell just as well -- if not far better -- than those that don't.