Sentence examples for much a reference from inspiring English sources

Colin and his pals are supposed to be deranged misogynists, of course — although the title is perhaps not as much a reference to Jayne Mansfield or some local porn star as a measure of the men's inflated masculinity.

But it's not enough simply to know Proust -- or to understand that a character named Odette is as much a reference to the Odette in "Swann's Way" as she is a sustained character that lives in these pages.

In fact, he is not Mexican at all, but a white Southwestern country boy of German stock who calls himself El Gringo, a name that's as much a reference to his American birth certificate as it is his less-than-brown skin.

On Saturday, Mr. Wilders torpedoed a budget deal that had been seven weeks in the making, saying: "It is the government, not the citizen, not Henk and Ingrid, who spent too much," a reference to the Joe and Suzy Sixpack of Dutch society.

"That's much more a reference to 'Porky's,' " the soft-spoken Mr. Kazandjian said, somewhat incredulously.

Mr. Kaufman acknowledges as much with a reference in the play, when the main character, played by Jane Fonda, is told that her access to the Beethoven archives in Bonn is made possible because of "Dr. Kinderman".

How could she not have known how much of a reference point she would be for me and so many other theatergoers, a standard to which we inevitably compared others?

Another reason for Lincoln to have its own agency, Mr. Farley said, is that "when the mother ship is much bigger" — a reference to the Ford brand sold by Ford Motor — "it's easier for the smaller brand to be lost".

Mr. Haynes said he had discussed the music for the film with Mr. Bernstein in relation to the characters, "but never in terms of 50's style, and how we are going to navigate it and utilize it but not ever let it become too ersatz, too ironical, too much of a reference to another period".

Armstrong, of course, doesn't make too much of a reference to this in his memo to staff, which came out this morning, except to note that one goal at the company has been to build a "substantial financial foundation for our investors and more importantly, our investors' investors".

Items are rated on a five-point scale from 0 = not at all to 4 = very much, with a reference period of 4 weeks.