Sentence examples for still if not from inspiring English sources

Still, if not with the Plaza crowd, where will the Democratic party go?

I walked through the casino at 5 o'clock on a Monday morning and it was still, if not buzzing, then at least humming like an old fridge.

Still, if not strikingly original, Mr. Plensa, a 45-year-old Catalan who lives in Paris and Barcelona, has an impressive flair for theater.

Still, if not precisely an outsider artist, Zink was, for a very long time, an outsider: unknown, unpublished, living deliberately far from the mainstream and looking at it with the sharply angled vision that such a position affords.

Still, if not actually fooling the audience, other found-footage movies, like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity have had some success.

Still, if not for their popularity as jewelry for women, wristwatches might never have survived the turn of the 20th century.

In the stock market, however, that view is still widely if not universally held.

Still it is likely that Tombstone would not still exist if not for Hollywood.

Yet a repertory band can still thrive, if not always with the critics.

Difficult as it is to compass the imagination that could have begotten "The Tempest," it is more difficult still -- if not flat-out impossible -- to conceive of someone who, having written it, wouldn't fret over its preservation for the ages.

Only when the amazing Mr. Cavanaugh finally gets his deserved moment in the spotlight with the encore, "New York State of Mind," do the theatergoers start wriggling happily like the crowds at "Mamma Mia!" After all those images of pain, there is a catharsis in being allowed to feel that Mr. Joel's music is still -- if not only -- rock 'n' roll.