Sentence examples for resembles less from inspiring English sources

In this way, the War on Cancer resembles less, say, the war on Nazi Germany than the War on Terror.

But this Collected resembles less a monument than a city or a continent, a Borgesian project of retrieving absolutely everything in the moment of its dissolution.

In her way, in both policy and personality, Benita resembles less any of the current crop of politicians than one former prime minister.

Brown's writing resembles less the adult best-sellers of the past, which popularized high literary forms — "Gone with the Wind" was a kind of kitsch Tolstoy — than the adventure stories that were once the staple of adolescent literature.

The Marx that appears in these pages resembles less the Promethean prophet of earlier biographies than Groucho, a fallible dreamer whose mockery of bourgeois morals belied the "supremely bourgeois patriarch" that he was.

Every surface in his principal's office at Hertford College is stacked with towers of paper - academic studies, scientific theories, clinical trial reports, funding applications, student essays, travel plans, printed emails - so that it resembles less a place of work than a storage facility.

The heroine of her 1985 novel The Good Terrorist resembles Lessing as her capitalist hunters portrayed her.

They resembled less a frenetic Showtime team and more a cerebral halfcourt team.

The process would resemble less a pursuit of truth and justice than a World Wrestling Federation cage match between Super Lawyers.

As for the Iraqi police, they resembled less a neutral security force than a faction in the city's conflicts.

As a result, the scene resembled less a catwalk crowd, more an exceptionally well-dressed church congregation.