Other delegates came from similar backgrounds, including Le Corbusier, whose father was a watch enameler, yet Rietveld was the only one to be defined by his roots, so much so that he is often dismissed as a carpenter who drifted into design by accident.
He is no longer surprised when interviewers -- to quote one radio host -- question whether he is "either a patriot or a financial terrorist!" On its part, Occupy hasn't left its "radical" roots so much as to consciously evolve as a thoughtful and compelling voice on the subject of banking and finance.
The real satisfaction of adult tennis camp is rooted not so much in self-improvement but in self-actualization.
You know what you like and you stick to it, because everyone's musical preferences are rooted not so much in personal taste as utter gut instinct.
He also choreographs to the strength of a multicultural troupe that has a signature style rooted not so much in power as in speed, suppleness and intricacy.
The popularity of The Expendables, though, was rooted not so much in its action sequences as the familiarity of the stars themselves and their extraordinary assembly in one story.
There has always been a dark side to this evergreen tale, a shadow of dread, a xenophobia rooted not so much in fear of assault from outside aggressors as in a dull-witted suspicion of those among us who look or sound or somehow seem as if they "don't come from around here".
The vision of a renewable future in the gulf is rooted not so much in a fuzzy green sentiment — though that is starting to take hold — as in analysis of the region's economic future and the high-end lifestyles of its citizens.
"The predominant impulse behind our desire to rise in the social hierarchy may be rooted not so much in the material goods we can accrue or the power we can wield as in the amount of love we stand to receive as a consequence of high status," de Botton soothingly tells us.
It's not a matter of which sentence is "correct" — "for whom are we rooting" versus "who are we rooting for" — so much as which sentence is correct for the given situation.
