Sentence examples for much less substantive from inspiring English sources

As it became much more adversarial and much less substantive, it slipped away from me.

Most nominees never even testified before Congress, much less discussed their substantive views on the law.

The anchors are there to simply fuel the fire with no duty to steer guests to substantive conversation, much less to insist on facts over fatuous rhetoric.

Faced with ever more abbreviated news cycles, most of us can barely keep up, much less secure the temporal or substantive means for reflection.

Much less space has been devoted to a substantive analysis of the actual reforms being mulled.

While the candidates broke little new substantive ground, Mr. Gore seemed much less preachy and Mr. Bush seemed less perplexed when confronted with detailed queries on foreign policy, speaking with apparent ease about past crises in Nigeria, Haiti and the Balkans.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Chairman Yasir Arafat of the Palestinian Authority, the men between whom Mr. Powell is preparing to mediate, so loathe each other that he will be hard-pressed to get them to talk directly, much less agree to a cease-fire or resumption of substantive political negotiations.

But Mr Obama has chosen this moment to tackle a collection of problems, such as health care and environmental regulation, that have defeated much less overburdened administrations.The administration advances two justifications for this, one substantive (you can't fix America's economy without also dealing with its long-term problems) and one political ("Never waste a good crisis").

Much, much, much, much less perfect.

Much less appalling.

God, much less bigotry.