"I wasn't so much drawn as drifted," he says.
He continued to play the kind of football that doesn't so much draw attention but announces a result.
Some photographers who are included in the show, however, say they are not so much drawn to the characters as the aesthetic.
Many rural gang members, however, are not so much drawn to the opportunities of the countryside as they are pushed out of the city.
For all its sensuousness, this is a novel about brutalised lives, crushed hopes and a horror which is not so much drawn as outlined, a negative space that sucks in the worst terrors of childhood and makes them real.
Aïda Ruilova's compact, psychologically charged videos, which have been shown everywhere from the Venice Biennale to a Jumbotron in Times Square, don't so much draw you in as snare you in a relentless loop with no hope of climax or resolution.
"This corner of Europe does not so much draw people as accept them without inconvenient questions," he wrote in Tender Is the Night.
While these facts are undeniable, I'm not sure it solves the broadcaster's problem so much as drawing attention to it.
Annely Juda has beguiling sketches by the Russian abstract visionary Malevich – who'd have thought this severe artist had so much fun drawing?
Sean Lock does - but he spends so much time drawing attention to the pretence and precariousness of his set, that we begin to take him at his word and wonder why we bothered.
