Sentence examples similar to so much adrift from inspiring English sources
A gouache on paper, it was done shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Scottie--a time that, Zelda wrote to a friend, "brought back the excitement of those days twenty years ago when there was so much of everything adrift on the micaed spring time and so many aspirations afloat on the lethal twilights that one's greatest concern was which taxi to take and which magazine to sell to".
Here, the narrator is an adult looking back at a youth not so much misspent as adrift.
British readers may sometimes wonder how so much opulence can still leave characters feeling so permanently adrift, but in these angst-ridden literary times any novel or play showing wealthy American extended family members actually enjoying their vacation now seems well past.
Today, 13 points adrift before Christmas, the coach realizes that Barça had not so much ceded the crown as let Madrid borrow it for a season.
What they feared was not so much that I wouldn't succeed (failure was a given), it was that I would be set adrift and flounder away unanchored -- the kind of shaky situation that drives lawyers nuts.
By Friday, we had two new movies to divert our anxious minds: Michael Mann's "Collateral," in which a taxi driver is terrorized by a suave, vicious hit man (so much for work) and Chris Kentis's "Open Water," in which two blond scuba divers spend much of their vacation adrift in the company of hungry sharks (so much for leisure).
Bagram Ibatoulline's gouache and watercolor paintings give Thumbelina a large-eyed pathos reminiscent of silent movie heroines, but her body and face are so much less detailed than those of his charmingly nefarious antagonists that in some scenes she almost seems a cartoon character adrift in the real world.
But inside the house on Berkeley Street, Max was beginning to feel very much adrift.
"Not so much, maybe not so much.
