Sentence examples for so much rejected from inspiring English sources

At Trinity College, Dublin he did submit work to the literary magazine but it "wasn't so much rejected as ignored.

We saw that in the run-up to Iraq, where perfectly obvious propositions – the case for invading is very weak, the occupation may well be a nightmare – weren't so much rejected as ruled out of discussion altogether; if you even considered those possibilities, you weren't a serious person, no matter what your credentials.

Wolfe doesn't so much reject this idea as seem baffled by it.

Dylan wasn't so much rejecting folk music and moving to rock as he was returning to his roots.

The world is seeing the rise of a new economic hybrid what might be termed "state capitalism .Under state capitalism, governments do not so much reject the market as use it as an instrument of state power.

Lawrence was ultimately a religious writer who did not so much reject Christianity as try to create a new religious and moral basis for modern life by continual resurrections and transformations of the self.

We might say that metamodernism pushes off from postmodernism, but in fact it'd be more accurate to say that it evolved from it and therefore does not so much reject it as transcend it -- a very different metaphor for social change than the one a dialectics-oriented poststructuralist is likely to embrace.

More than half of those planning to vote for Mr Romney say they are not endorsing him so much as rejecting Mr Obama.Arguments about Mr Romney's tax affairs and record in business refuse to go away.

She approaches outsider scientists like they're her pack of beloved three-legged dogs: she sees them not so much as rejecting science, but as trying to make it more accessible.

The problem wasn't so much that people rejected the newcomers openly as that they tended not to see them in the first place.

(Although the latter was done mostly to broaden the book's appeal to an international readership, and not so much because Hergé rejected imperial rule or believed that it would come to an end – which, in the case of Congo, did not happen until 1960, whereas the colour edition first appeared in 1946).