Sentence examples for seemed not so from inspiring English sources

My brother seemed not so little anymore.

Decades of retirement suddenly seemed not so amiable.

Cuthbert seemed not so much dead as sleeping, wrote Simeon.

At first, the conditions seemed not so bad.

Suddenly round-the-clock attendance by a relative, hired nurse or companion seemed not so outrageous.

And the crowd waiting to see Mr. Gore seemed not so much scared as bored.

The steeplechaser Michael Spence seems not so sure.

But for many companies, the situation seems not so dire.

In that case, the idea seems not so much "brave" as off the wall.

His paintings can seem not so much culminations as by-products of this prodigious effort.

To the Comtesse and her posse, all this seems not so much shocking as incomprehensible.