Sentence examples for much less achieved from inspiring English sources

In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film "magnificent, moving and very mysterious," one that "dramatizes states of mind that have seldom been attempted, much less achieved, outside of written fiction".

Kubrick got over his reservations, fortunately, after they met for lunch in April 1964, and the pair set out to "make a movie about man's relation to the rest of the universe - something that had never been attempted, much less achieved, in the history of motion pictures".

When it looked like a military action could get out of hand and that victory couldn't even be defined much less achieved (Somalia), the President brought American soldiers home.

Defining what an adequate education is, much less achieving it, is not an easy task.

Very few films attempt — much less achieve — that kind of tragic perfection.

However, IMDb's suit (pdf) claims that the law "does not advance, much less achieve" the goal of reducing age discrimination, and that it violates both the first amendments and commerce clause of the US constitution.

For the crime of their ancestry, millions of people in the middle of the twentieth century, and in the heart of Europe — God's citadel — were sent to a death so calculated, so hideous, and so prolonged that no age before this enlightened one had been able to imagine it, much less achieve and record it.

In this part-memoir, part-meditation — embellished by reporting — Mr. Levine, a former president of Teachers College at Columbia, and Laura Scheiber, a doctoral student at the college, revisit his old neighborhood to explore why some students never even visualize the American dream, much less achieve it, while others overcome the odds.

While women and men both felt equally well trained for a career in academic science, women were less confident about their chances to land a position, much less achieve tenure.

The scale and speed of change required goes well beyond anything political leaders have ever had to contemplate, much less achieve.

Instantly I was impacted in a very positive way by Kimanzi's story, as I had not felt qualified to write, much less achieve the level of success he had reached.