Sentence examples for to be less straightforward from inspiring English sources
"to be less straightforward" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express the idea of being more subtle, vague, or indirect in one's expressions or words. For example: "Her responses were less straightforward this time, which made it difficult to discern what she truly meant."
For the footwear manufacturer, the exercise turned out to be less straightforward than it initially appeared.
However, the price relationship between corn and ethanol was revealed to be less straightforward, and is driven by the US government fuel policy.
Negative body talk among men appears to be less straightforward than that among women (Engeln et al. 2013).
In its final form Brentano's account of the relation between judgement and predication turns out to be less straightforward than the standard Fregean account with its simple distinction between "grasping a proposition" and "judging it to be true".
Still, the student ambassadors as well as the administrators running the conference sessions found solutions for broader issues, such as how to increase likeliness to vote, to be less straightforward.
The obvious extension of the chemistry outlined above using salicylaldehydes as substrates proved to be less straightforward than expected.
After she left, you had various people trying to reignite the evangelical zeal, but the privatisations they then had to look at were less straightforward, like the railways, and it's easy, with hindsight, to let some of these taint the privatisations that happened before.
Similar to the mitofusins, OPA1 has non-fusion pleiotropic effects such as inhibiting apoptosis by preventing cytochrome c release, and therefore, the effect of manipulating OPA1 on the susceptibility to acute IRI may be less straightforward to predict.
It is likely that gene level annotation compared to protein immunostaining will be less straightforward in cases such as CD44, where multiple protein isoforms are generated from a single gene.
Perhaps, with more creativity elsewhere on the pitch, it would be less straightforward to shut him down.
The downside is that a "theoretical" figure like this may be less straightforward to understand.
