Sentence examples for much deliver from inspiring English sources

At times like this, politicians don't so much deliver a speech as unfurl it.

He does not so much deliver campaign speeches as he does read them in a flat monotone.

He doesn't so much deliver as let fall the beautiful, desolating "how ill all's here about my heart".

Pulpy but attenuated, "Heroine" tries to do too much: deliver an exposé of the back-stabbing film business while also drawing a portrait of a woman caught in its vice.

The proper cooking here is conducted by chef Tom Anglesea in a small open kitchen, and while dishes might look odd on paper – "pumpkin cappelletti, whey and sage" – they pretty much deliver with aplomb on the plate.

Kogonada writes brilliant dialogue — terse, wry, probing — for young intellectuals, and Richardson and Cho don't so much deliver their lines as seem to discover them, as if from their own thoughts.

Otherwise the cream-teas-and-crime formula is untouched – promising much, delivering little.

With his own BBC sitcom series in the works, it seems he's very much delivering on his early promise.

AS stump speeches go, pundits have long observed that the John Edwards version is not so much delivered as performed.

Communism was an impractical mishmash of ideas, imposed by squabbling zealots that promised much, delivered little and cost millions of lives.

However the official figures are reconfigured, the government is open to criticism that it has spent too much delivering too little.