Sentence examples for so much risen from inspiring English sources

"House of Flying Daggers," however, following eagerly on this summer's "Hero," suggests an artist who has not so much risen above the scrutiny of social oppression as drifted away from it.

Never mind that Rove hasn't spent an adult day of his life without spitting out the words "reporter" or "media" as though they were so much risen bile.

"The tale does not so much rise and fall as flat-line," he wrote.

At Fuente De the mountains do not so much rise as scream out of the ground.

Watkins is back in the starting lineup, though he did not so much rise to the role as watch it fall to him.

It is remarkable this man of no formal education achieved so very much, rose to such prominence, and so presciently proposed what was needed.

The record seemed to brand Björk not so much a rising star, but a distant planet with complex weather patterns.

He was having so much trouble rising from the floor that we bought a harness contraption called a Help 'Em Up.

Whichever theory proves true, geologists are still at a loss to explain why so much gold rose up from the mantle at that time in a single location.

And why is it that in a culture like the US women have had so much trouble rising in the ranks, while in countries where machismo is the norm, men have been so open minded by comparison?

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 — The palm tree, like so much here, rose to fame largely because of vanity and image control, then met its downfall when the money ran out.