Sentence examples for than exemplary from inspiring English sources

The results have been less than exemplary.

"It would be different if it was of the moment, rather than exemplary of an era".

Our guidebooks had led us to expect no more of the hotel kitchen than exemplary fish and chips.

It is not surprising that in that time the police and successive Attorneys General may have shown less than exemplary zeal in holding newspapers to account.

If such a scene were included in a police drama, the precautionary phone call would come across as dark comedy or bureaucratic obedience rather than exemplary policing.

"The Scotland supporters are known the world over for their impeccable behaviour and we have no reason to believe that, after speaking to the relevant authorities, they have been anything other than exemplary.

Others with his record of making off-color remarks and less-than-exemplary news would never have been made a studio star, or lasted this long.

In "American Buffalo," "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Oleanna" (which received a less-than-exemplary Broadway production this season), the dialogue is fueled by the desperation of the characters.

Many party members or their close family members often violate rules by engaging in business or having less-than-exemplary personal lives — but are expected to keep it under wraps.

A theatrical moment occurred before the meeting, when a watchdog group dressed up as "the Google Track Team" to protest what it viewed as the company's less-than-exemplary privacy policies.

Much as it's easier to write a memorable negative review than a memorable positive one, so it is often easier to create a charismatic evildoer than an exemplary good guy.