Sentence examples for seems smaller than from inspiring English sources

Just as W. always seems smaller than his station and surroundings, Bill always seems bigger.

In fact, when it comes to books you might actually want to read, B's bookstore seems smaller than A's.

In some ways, he said, his life in Cumberland seems smaller than the one he imagined from a prison cell.

But somehow she seems smaller than her story, and it's tempting to wonder what she would look like in the hands of a writer who could indulge in more speculation and extrapolation than the historian can allow.

Based on the life and songs of the gifted but uncelebrated Edward Kleban, the Broadway production of "A Class Act" seems smaller than the overly ambitious version seen last fall on the tiny second stage of the Manhattan Theater Club.

And the peculiarity is that Scully's use of the past tense, that workmanlike narrative engine, is saturated with understanding, with a perception of her mother that has been worked out over years, so long, in fact, that the barrier between the memoirist and her mother seems smaller than the one between the memoirist and her own distant incarnation.

Those that survived seemed smaller than average.

To Mr. Sabean, the place seemed smaller than in the pictures.

The crowd seemed smaller than it was a year ago, when the country was seized with election fever.

Her unfettered breasts seem smaller than he'd imagined, cone-shaped like an African girl's.

The cars here seem smaller than European ones, the tracks narrower, the compartments more cramped.