Sentence examples for so much wary from inspiring English sources

They all looked not so much wary as shy.

He isn't quite so much wary of consumer markets as he is enthralled by their ingenuity.

Japanese companies are not so much wary of foreigners as they are closed to outsiders of any stripe.

I didn't feel constrained so much as wary of going too far.

When a team is losing, every player, including the captain, becomes so much more wary.

And we don't need to be afraid of it, so much as wary that its processes aren't misused.

Puccini won immortality by torturing his heroines, so much so that wary sopranos may regard his music as a drug: addictive and hazardous to their health in any but very controlled doses.

In football, familiarity breeds not so much contempt as a wary mutual respect.

Coyotes have managed to elude much serious scrutiny by being exquisitely wary, so much so that even dedicated coyote scientists can struggle to find ways to lay eyes on them, not to mention hands.

Even then, he was candid about the fact that journalism about rock stars isn't a gonzo expedition in search of elusive truth so much as a mutually wary, mutually beneficial transaction.

Of course, with so much building, everyone involved is wary of saturation.