"I don't so much object about paying tax, but I do object to paying taxes to a government that squanders it.
And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way.
In the realm of atoms and smaller particles, objects exist not so much as objects as mists of possibilities of being here or there and everywhere at the same time -- and then someone looks and the possibilities suddenly collapse to definite locations.
But what this show celebrates is not so much individual objects as a body of work, which overall is very impressive.
Marshaling an impressive array of local facts, it doesn't so much place objects in context as extract context from them.
On the track and off, in motion and at rest, the thoroughbreds Harrison views through her camera lens are not so much the objects of sport or commerce as the visual inspiration for her art.
They had become not so much inanimate objects to me as extensions of who I was, as had just about everything else I carried that summer-my backpack, tent, sleeping bag, water purifier, ultralight stove, and the little orange whistle that I carried in lieu of a gun.
But "since you are going to be so much the object of conversation, it would be embarrassing to you".
There is so much to object to in this book that it is hard to know where to start.
That we could have interpreted as a genuine test balloon, rather than just so much shiny-object waving.
