Other spring-flowering plants already in bloom were lesser celandine, cow parsley and sweet violet.
Both were lesser executives at Elf, Andre Tarallo and Jean-Claude Vauchez.
Separated from the time, place and inexperience that fostered "Exile in Guyville," they were lesser songs — willed, not inspired.
(It did not help that many of those works were lesser Marie Laurencins or Maurice Utrillos of the old School of Paris calendar-art variety).
But the individual losses were lesser sins than the entire team's failure to maintain its momentum, for which skipper Davis Love must bear some responsibility.
Between the controversies were lesser known but important contributions to debates on education, the health service, the Middle East, nuclear proliferation.
Ray and I were lesser lights in a larger group that included Philip Levine and E.L. Doctorow — distinct literary stars, even then.
And they cringe at Romney's clumsiness, diligently reminding themselves that their other options were lesser ones: Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain.
So were lesser figures like Andrew Geller, whose determination to "unsquare the cube" resulted in eccentric designs like his Hunt house of 1959 on Fire Island, which resembled a huge box kite laid down on its side.
There have been Open champions who were lesser known than Oosthuizen, far less qualified and who even had less flattering nicknames than "Shrek," a derivative of the German and Yiddish word Shreck, which means "fear" or "terror".
I knew that it was that very history of violence — my dead great-great-grandfather's ghost and all the young black men who died at the hands of people who thought they were lesser — that was the subtext.
