Sentence examples for read less as from inspiring English sources

The bands read less as expressive gesture than as purposeful design.

This read less as a reconstruction of Ms. Summers's work than as a tribute by one artist to two others.

The fact that Mr Yeltsin refused it at first offer should be read less as a renewed vote of confidence in Mr Chubais than as a grudging acceptance that the Russian economy was in too delicate a pass to manage without him.Another bleak winterThe problem for Mr Yeltsin is that he wants desperately to see sustained economic growth under way in Russia next year.

Rove's favorite book at the time was Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men," a history of the early days of the Republican Party, which he read less as a dispassionate analysis of the early Republicans' strengths and weaknesses than as a guidebook on how to broaden the appeal of the Party.

We see an old black-and-white clip of her dancing in "Café Müller," wearing a plain shift, with eyes downcast — "as if she'd risen from the dead," somebody recalls, and "Pina" should be read less as a polite memorial than as a palpitating act of resurrection.

Alone with Albrecht she's half-frozen, afraid of being overwhelmed by love; and even when she's able to release her feelings in dance, the speed and buoyancy of her execution read less as the technical marvels they are than as a rush of artless fevered emotion.

We are reading less as we age, and we are reading less than people who were our age ten or twenty years ago.

The whole thing reads less as an action romp than as an earnest cautionary tale about America's barely suppressed Vietnam trauma.

The book, famous in its day, now reads less as a writer's guide than as a prose poem, each passage polished like the facet of a gem.

Two Planks and a Passion thus reads less as a stand-alone volume and more as a companion to Huntford's cycle of books about polar exploration, which began with Scott and Amundsen in 1979, continued with Shackleton six years later and ended with Nansen in 1997.

Children are reading less as their lives become more crowded with other activities, new research suggests.