Tensions escalate, the confessions become more alarming, and by the end of the evening the hosts, the guests, the narrator and indeed the reader have all been not so much subjected to emotional scrutiny as disembowelled, dismembered and scattered to the four winds.
In 1910, the educator and philosopher John Dewey noted that "science teaching has suffered because science has been so frequently presented just as so much ready-made knowledge, so much subject-matter of fact and law, rather than as the effective method of inquiry into any subject-matter" (cited in Archambault, 1964, p. 182).
But the brave thing is not so much the subject matter, which is something of a given: what would the movie be about but ethnic biases and tensions?
The three featured artists, Pamela Long Nolan, Valta Us and Marion McManus, have little in common beyond a general interest in nature, not so much as subject matter but rather as a point of departure.
Usually it's not so much the subject itself as the fact that the subject takes you where you want to go.
The Court stated: "... natural rights, so called, are as much subject to taxation as rights of less importance.
Here, life versus art isn't so much the subject of angst as of farce.
She looks like not so much the subject of this portrait as its rather resigned and unwilling victim.
The exiled filmmaker's adopted country, and especially its capital city, was not so much his subject as his collaborator.
What is so appealing about this photograph is not so much the subject as the way in which it is printed.
