From that moment on, I was more or less raised by the OASIS’s interactive educational programs, which any kid could access for free. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bobby Zane was more or less in the clear and so I threw it at him; it was so heavy that he had to scoop my throw up from the ground. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economic basis of Polynesian societies consisted of more or less self-sufficient households, but some islands also supported guilds of hereditary part-time craft specialists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though Tariq and his parents were ethnic Pashtuns, they spoke Farsi when Laila was around for her benefit, even though Laila more or less understood their native Pashto, having learned it in school. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson knew full well that money more or less grew on the trees at Yale, and that funds had been vastly easier to come by in 1928, before the Depression, than in 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Zoologists will tell you that certain animals more or less “chose” domestication. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, we exchanged good mornings, more or less as normal, but didn’t speak beyond that. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said softly, “I’ve been expecting you more or less. I suppose you feel sick about all this.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But the overall course of history might have turned out more or less the same. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone wanted to live on the moon more or less permanently, that person would probably have to put up a plastic bubble, fill it with air, and stay inside it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He more or less repeated his TED Talk and predicted that the future, the world you two will live in, will be a very smart place.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Put another way, technology was evolving by the day, but the human brain was more or less staying put. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had been a roudne day, a day more or less like the other days I had spent on the job as errand boy and washer of eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this time we’ve been more or less thinking we were the one and only white people who ever set foot here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others are social only in the sense of being more or less congenial, meeting from time to time in committees, using social gatherings as ad hoc occasions for feeding and breed- ing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music can be more or less tonal without becoming completely atonal, however. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A molecule is simply two or more atoms working together in a more or less stable arrangement: add two atoms of hydrogen to one of oxygen and you have a molecule of water. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a frown behind his cigar, as though the stunning lighting effects had been “created” by a stage director whose taste he considered more or less suspect. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Which is, oddly enough, more or less exactly what I was planning to do.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If a wheel strikes against a stone or other impediment, while in quick motion, it turns the cart with a violent jerk, and often throws them down with more or less injury. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there are millions of civilizations distributed more or less randomly through the Galaxy, the distance to the nearest is about two hundred light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy Clidell was to look after me but I was more or less left on my own recognizance and under the unsteady gaze of our lady roomers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more or less living in the kitchen and the smaller of the two libraries. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They’d more or less dressed themselves when Mr. Jack came back, just as though for the first time, and pretended to be surprised and shocked. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years in our desert ghetto, at least we knew where we stood with our neighbors, could live more or less at ease with them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there were at least two or three more people who were in more or less the same situation that I was in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jason had remembered his old camp’s location more or less, but all the Greeks’ magic—even that of the campers of Hecate’s cabin—couldn’t confirm that Percy was there, or anywhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house where Pasqual’s relatives lived was more or less a big box, with a good yard because they worked on it when they had time off. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

"You, Sikander, aren't a god, but you have the benefit of being more or less immortal, so the sea's properties won't affect you. And Mo's already dead. The worst is over for him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Harry rolled up the letter and slipped it inside his robes, wondering whether he felt more or less worried than before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Tam’s my name!” the old man more or less shouts. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow had been walking south, or what he hoped was more or less south, for several hours, heading along a narrow and unmarked road through the woods somewhere in, he imagined, southern Wisconsin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In any case, by the hour set for the dinner, everything was more or less ready, except me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was more or less taken for granted that a Captain would be made a Boazer in recognition of his talents - if not a School Boazer then certainly a House Boazer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first thousand meters, the three boats settled in and contended more or less evenly for the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The corridor we were in ended in a back stair, surrounded by doors that opened on more corridors, all more or less alike. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I was learning to use my arms just fine, my legs were more or less useless and couldn’t kick. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nature was more or less back to normal. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then he put it away again, more or less, and contemplated a new problem: Where had he come from, and where should he go now? Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blast him, blast him and all, I think, in more or less those words and worse as I stomp across our farm. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nine: Watching the performances of my former colleagues, I got the idea that once you assembled the requisite props, the piece would more or less come together on its own. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sam paid it out slowly, measuring it with his arms: ‘Five, ten, twenty, thirty ells, more or less,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I soon fell asleep before Wemmick’s fire, and the Aged and I enjoyed one another’s society by falling asleep before it more or less all day. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gollum turned to the right, southward more or less, and splashed along with his feet in the shallow stony stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And every one of those days, from dawn to dusk, had been more or less the same. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The evolution of life requires a more or less precise balance between mutation and selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of his son in 1867 more or less killed him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They were vertical bars, smooth and no thicker than match sticks, which made them slippery to climb, but by turning more or less sideways, she was able to grip them fairly well. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you mean is she crazy? No. No more or less than anybody else in town." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until a year or two before I arrived, inmates could sit more or less where they wanted to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun learned that most of those brought to Camp Greyhound had been arraigned in a more or less standard fashion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it is more or less taken as modern gospel that profound scientific truth frequently accomplishes the opposite of what Epicurus recommended, costing us peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He’d learned to move normally within the Death Mist, more or less, but the magical shroud still made him feel like he was wrapped in a coat of helium. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Only it more or less wore off in a couple of hours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lucy Jo, whom the principal had more or less ordered to perform this service, took an instant dislike to Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I guess they more or less agreed about things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he had a “more or less irresistible passion for books” that started in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long the questioning lasted or what it concerned, as I was drugged more or less heavily all the time and have no memory of it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The old Erudite writings said the same thing, more or less,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the end of his first year he would never again be known as the son of a Muggle-hater, but as nothing more or less than the most brilliant student ever seen at the school. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Wart found that he could keep more or less level by altering the inclination of his arm fins and the ones on his stomach. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and even snakes make various more or less vocal sounds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and that what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Are the soldiers stationed in Utrecht more or less lax than the ones here in Amsterdam? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Unless it was robbery,” said Nye, though robbery as the motive had been much discussed and then more or less dismissed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was covered in soot and her dress was charred at the edges, but at least she seemed more or less together. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Opium for Black Dog was what gambling had been for Lefty, but Lefty had stopped, more or less—at least compared to his old days. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was more or less what we all believed in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met the Franks, the stubborn, charismatic father-and-son team who then more or less ran the tribe, in a cluttered office that in my recollection occupied half of a double- wide trailer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said this quite softly, and because people were still shouting, she was more or less drowned out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to develop a figure, more or less. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed, Jim had once more lowered himself to speak to me, but only to suggest that it might be a good idea if I more or less disappeared forever. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stand looking at this building, which is in shape more or less like a church, a cathedral. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew just how much he was supposed to earn a week, more or less. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, with so many of the Folk around, what is one person more or less? The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It flows more or less parallel to the road, and out of the valley through the gap at the south. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most other Polynesian islands were in more or less regular contact with other islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is what she says, whispers, more or less. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we had used ultraviolet light—simulating the early Sun—the results would have been more or less the same. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name is mine and so is the face, more or less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The name I carried with me throughout my youth was attached to me, more or less accidentally, by Mistress MacGregor of the orphanage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walked quickly to catch up, though I was still more or less of a third wheel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each shelter had a nearby privy, a good water source, and a picnic table, so we could prepare and eat our meals in a more or less normal posture instead of squatting on damp logs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I talk to ’em every day, sir, more or less. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We still do not really know why there are only nine planets, more or less, and why they have the relative distances from the Sun that they do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All except for Herbie Goldfarb, that is, who stood on the mound, mouth agape, more or less terrified, and wondering what God had wrought. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stoops along 145th always looked more or less the same, cracked steps with people either standing on them or sitting on them because life got too depressing in their apartments. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For much of the last century most Mayanists believed that at its height—200 to 900 a.d., roughly speaking—the Maya realm was divided into a hugger-mugger of more or less equivalent city-states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d held the post for years, in part because loyal service to the party machine was more or less expected of city employees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The men had been working all year in the city to support the family, so this was their vacation, more or less. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was asked along, relatively late in the day and more or less informally, to make “a few appropriate remarks” after Edward Everett’s oration. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now, I’ll confess: I don’t feel too terrible about more or less chucking the Game Plan because I’m hanging out with Rae a bunch now. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“So, you think we can more or less troll him into reacting terribly, and he’ll do the work for us?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few buildings had advanced at a far greater pace and appeared to be more or less complete, in particular the Mines Building and the Woman’s Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We call it paraffin at home, but the Americans call it kerosene, and that is more or less what the word sounds like in French and German too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Shae had always been friendly with him, never anything more or less, and for the first time Con became aware that he might like it if there was something more. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On top of the more or less social tangle in which he found himself, there was a personal puzzle—for he put a higher value cm chastity than is fashionable in our century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The same kind of house, more or less,” Anatole finished for me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manny’s parents more or less sponsored the Atlanta chapter of the Justice for JAM movement, so of course they’d participated in the local marches. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I peered through the eyepiece and tweaked it until I managed to bring Neptune more or less into focus. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They all bore more or less the same expression, one of expectancy mingled with apprehension. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their point of view, all nearby star systems are more or less equally attractive for exploration or colonization.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me that my blood is more or less ready to start circulating again, which wasn’t the case lately in Paris, I really couldn’t stand it any more,” Vincent writes Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Four thousand years ago, more or less. I am much older.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The preacher started talking in actual English, more or less. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly unforgivable, and I’ve spent the past year wondering whether it was more or less unforgivable than the person Elsbeth wanted to marry, and which one of us should apologize to whom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She felt completely comfortable in her presence, and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like everybody else, I more or less assumed it was going to be Edna. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Everything is more or less up to the judge. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s weird because I always know things about people, gut feelings that usually lead me in more or less the right direction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the end, not-talking means the same thing, more or less, as small talk. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just the appropriate number of desks arranged more or less pentagonally about the floor with the secretaries positioned in the center. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Species appear, abide more or less briefly and then flicker out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Of the 200,000 wild plant species, only a few thousand are eaten by humans, and just a few hundred of these have been more or less domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he was back I was more or less myself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the town was more or less affected by the skater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the slow accretion of new functions permits the city to work more or less continuously through the centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s more or less formed his own private army. He’s acting as if he’s got something to hide.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gaundy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters were all the same he said, more or less. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more or less weatherproof, so it could work as a safe hiding place. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The first day was more or less a history lesson. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No more or less than I gave you. They were not of the proper mind-set.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In this case, for once, it was more or less true. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Melanie seemed to feel that April’s short talk with the old man had made her an authority on the subject, so she was more or less obliged to come up with an opinion. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Kimberly, which is more or less the opposite of asking her to leave. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ruth told me how, by the time she left the Cottages the autumn after me, she and Tommy had more or less drifted apart. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when it came down to it, the guardians made it more or less impossible for any of us actually to do much without breaking rules. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided neither to make nothing of it nor much of it; to proceed as though drinking was no more or less than something to be moderately indulged in at seasonal times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could only get hold of them, if at all, by scrounging more or less furtively on the “free” market. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were sitting, five of them, around a table in the room that served as their common room, living and dining room, bar, recreation room, and more or less everything else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had succeeded in driving him more or less out of business. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Italy workmen used a kind of pump, which worked more or less like a giant syringe, to raise water out of wells and canals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For even with the controversy—and there was still some—evolution had become more or less accepted as fact. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing alive...at least not for several hundred feet. The tunnel slants down, then levels out and goes south, more or less. I don’t sense any traps...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even the tenants were a more or less matched set. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XII, on the pad, was built to the design we had more or less standardized, but how it would perform loaded with melted rocket candy was a complete unknown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s more or less something like a law. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hauled the poles up into the lucky-beans with Crocodile Guts’s rope, and experimented with various configurations until she had a floor that was more or less level. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson, who had been bumped up to top sergeant, was more or less leading the whole platoon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decision struck me as well-intentioned but generally impractical, and it did little to build my confidence in the campaign team that now more or less ran our lives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Maria said I couldn’t go to Amsterdam without an adult intimately familiar with my case, which more or less meant either Mom or Dr. Maria herself. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This monument is in honor of the South African War, ninety years ago, more or less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the Latin terms survive more or less in free variation with the Greek, and Puttenham’s English equivalents are abundantly charming—albeit that charm is conditioned by a certain quaintness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The confusion that ensued when I explained to my stepfather that I expected to deliver the baby in three weeks, more or less, was reminiscent of a Moliere comedy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I have pressure again, I open the inner door and more or less fall into the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At game time, he was more or less sleepwalking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Piper and I were thinking more or less the same thing, namely, first we were five plus Jet, Gin and Ding and then we were three with Jet and now we were Just Two. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew more or less what would happen to them if they got caught. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is more or less how all choral music is laid out to this day: one line of music for each singing part, running alongside each other on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In her palm is my pendant necklace, the smooth bumps on its surface scraped and dirty but still more or less whole, the necklace part lying in a pile in her palm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She took a cautious step or two and seemed more or less satisfied. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And best of all, he very much wanted Kathy to be who and how she wanted to be, nothing more or less. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, he discovered himself recalling an incident of almost a year ago, a casual encounter in Valley View Cemetery, which, in retrospect, had somehow for him more or less ended the Clutter case. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The job, for her, was a welcome shift in routine, and for our family it was also more or less a financial necessity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had said this more or less to himself, but then we heard, as though in reply, a voice call outside: 'If s George Andrews. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I believe she talks to Ruth May more or less constantly, begging forgiveness when no one is around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d loved the job but came out of it more or less broke, more dependent on my parents financially than I wanted to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Which seemed to be more or less the case. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The water was shared more or less equally—no one ever tried to get much more than his share—and was gone within a few minutes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Lee hadn’t been out of jail that long, and although he came to the house on more or less a regular basis, I never saw evidence of the closeness between them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I laughed, too, just because people young and old are more or less the same everywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more or less appalled New York writer that year noted that “if Stanford had not been using a clumsily-built Western shell they might have won.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After all he had been through, it was obvious that he still remained utterly disposable, even at the crew house, the one place he had started to feel more or less at home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Escape! From the library. I thought the game’s title more or less gave that bit away.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Does that make it more or less valuable than the painting?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Each of us engaged our own kind, more or less. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man. Nothing more or less. And you?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The thought crossed his mind that he ought to handle this thing himself, because after all he more or less understood and had sympathy for the situation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation—in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious—stalk day by day through this land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I heard no bad news, so I assumed things were more or less all right. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Frankie had grown about three inches, but he still looked more or less the same. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re not really holding him for anything. He more or less just got here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found a more or less flat place, a shelf, on the hillside a few yards up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his cover was more or less attached to the binding, the yellowed pages made the book seem like it was a few decades old. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, Jupiter and I being in this freakish friendship purgatory is more or less my fault. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

What Protestant and Counter-Reformation reforms meant, more or less whoever you were, was a simplifying of church music so that the words could be heard more clearly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

‘BFG,’ she said, ‘can you tell us more or less where this Giant Country is?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the war, I was more or less known as a military cipher expert,” she wrote, “but I was better known as the wife of my husband.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To her, William’s breakdown “was nothing more or less than exhaustion.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the end of his life, the mules would be more or less dragging him across the field from shortly after dawn till evening, sometimes six days a week during planting season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Meals usually consisted of a daily fast-food stop at lunchtime; everything else was more or less on the fly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice wore her straw hat and a dress because we were going to church, more or less. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"This island's more or less a bare rock. We shall make short work of searching it. We'll soon ferret out U. N. Owen, Esq." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The argument between Mr. and Mrs. Dalai was still more or less in effect early the next morning, when a barefoot team of workmen came to install the basins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

During all this time, Newton had been carrying out experiments and thinking about the world more or less on his own, hardly discussing his ideas with anyone at all. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the day I'm thinking of now, we were more or less minding our own business too. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first scientists appear, as far as their religious beliefs are concerned, to be a more or less random sample of the intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, in 1908 he stepped into the position of crew coach more or less by default, replacing a pair of part-time volunteers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“But I thought it was quite a coincidence. Few people have access down here, and everyone else was more or less accounted for last night.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And regardless of what the citrus growers do, they are more or less at the mercy of the owners of adjacent acreages, for severe damage has been done by insecticidal drift. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As long as you’re just giving orders, anyway, which are more or less about the same in any language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of theories, more or less realistic, depending on the mood of the moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that I think we went back to talking in a more or less friendly way, and then before long we were making our way down the footpath in the half-light back to the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re almost finished. The next entry explains why the special recruits aren’t so sad. It’s more or less what we thought.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they didn’t know what book they were looking for, they knew it wasn’t in any of the Dewey decimal rooms now that the hover ladders had more or less been declared game pieces. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite Erasmus’s best efforts, Cicero’s model held more or less continuous sway up to the nineteenth century. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The path seemed to switch directions constantly but overall we were now headed more or less in the right di-rection. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were more or less the same: “I’m not coming to the meeting tonight, decided to stay home.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Minho said he had a special assignment from Newt, and more or less told Thomas to get lost, refusing to answer any of his questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

This one is shorter than Wal-Mart’s and apparently aimed at a rougher crowd: Am I more or less likely than other people to get into fistfights? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly can bleed to death in my presence if she likes, and I will just consider her to be specially favored by an inscrutable God, more or less as Jesus was. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, out of gratitude, they more or less adopted him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But though they had grown up, I am afraid I still treated them more or less as the children they had been when I went to prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m more or less recuperating from an illness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ser Addam Marbrand commands their outriders, and he's pulling back south, burning as he goes. He knows where we are, more or less, but the Black- fish vows he will not know when we split." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t bound to 600 square feet of ghetto retail space like my father, who more or less duplicated the same basic store in various parts of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were entering a stretch where the wrecked equipment along the road was more or less continuous. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Improvements in navigation, the lure of the spice trade and competition among rival European powers made the discovery of America around 1500 more or less inevitable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb up on the stool next to Lolo, who is perched at his usual spot in the corner, acting more or less like himself again, thank goodness. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Should I ask for more or less money now that I’m here?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, everything stayed more or less the same. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We rummaged around those shops, and in all honesty, after the first few minutes, I think Judy Bridgewater had more or less slipped from our minds. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To some extent he remained haunted by the more or less disastrous season of 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And even though I’m still in 7th-grade math and everyone—from the principal to all my classmates—knows I’m a savant, it’s more or less okay. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I attended Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, and while I had been a good student in the ninth grade, the following year I more or less dropped out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them, Kepler evidently grasped two things more or less simultaneously. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought she was going to say, Because I don’t love you, which probably would have been more or less the truth, but instead, to my surprise, she said: “Because I love Henry.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It needn’t be surprising that he was sensationally good at it, and that the rest of us were more or less bumblers in our different ways. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His dreams went more or less the same way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed or jerseyed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I more or less knew to expect him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, our studies in the ninth grade were more or less a review of what we had in the eighth grade.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were any sort of community leader or politician, it was—and still is, to this day—more or less mandatory that you show up and walk the route. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It stayed more or less afloat, but the outcome was the worst defeat in Washington’s history. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That evening’s work made us more or less content to leave next morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a huge galactic computer, a repository, more or less up-to-date, of information on the nature and activities of all the civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, a great library of life in the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is always more or less in the background. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Optics governed more or less everything in the political world, and I factored this into every outfit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As long as the clock’s deep boom rang out every hour, and the lights went on and off more or less regularly, it didn’t seem to matter. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which, I believe, is more or less what Altvatter means, translated from the German. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I found that by the second day I had more or less adjusted to the absence of food, and the third passed without much craving at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Lancelot, to return again unto this realm and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was laughter, more or less, and she sat back, relieved. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

What happened to Poppy was more or less up to her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was more or less constantly irritated with everyone else. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But if we look at distant galaxies, there seems to be more or less the same number of them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was only opportunity for one blow at a time, so they more or less took it in turns, King Pellinore striking while Sir Grummore was recovering, and vice versa. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I just more or less picked up my feet and it worked like a charm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of millions, a single tally mark, worth no more or less than any of the others. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or she went to New Hampshire, to see her mother, who’d been more or less depressed and homebound for the last three years. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are the terrestrial planets, our family of worlds, the planets more or less like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I UNDERSTAND, more or less, how flowers reproduce—with fruit and seeds and pollen—but the sexual parts of the human body baffle me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he could control it, more or less, and called them on purpose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were now going more or less in the right direction. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though the situation was hardly what we orphans had secretly hoped for, it was more or less what I had expected—with one exception. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Antelope is more or less our daily bread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Football players more or less had their pick of the girls at Big Creek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She never measured anything, instead cooking by eye, by instinct, and by touch, throwing in handfuls of flour and thumb-sized chunks of lard and drizzling in more or less cold water, depending. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Every day except Mourning. Sixth bell, more or less.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dad was drunk all the time except when he was in jail; Mom had completely withdrawn into her own world; and Maureen was more or less living with neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We made small talk in the large waiting room of the Ferry Building, which had more or less escaped the fire, though they had had to rebuild parts of it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straggling, catching up with one another, keeping more or less together, they had wandered over half a mile down the fields, always following the course of the brook. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these ideas has been proposed, some of them more or less seriously. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d meddled in his life since he was a baby, molding him to serve her purpose in this big prophecy, but at least she had been on their side, more or less. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the outside, her life looked more or less the same as it had for years, only with fewer reporters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was more or less like this: “I don’t want glory, but please can you save our honesty? And if you will heal tins knight for the knight’s sake, please do.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here: I can’t decide if your emails make me miss you more or less. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me genuine hope for my future. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I presented what is more or less the account current when Dobyns arrived in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how much evidence there was; it didn’t matter that by hiding, Daley more or less confirmed his guilt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Neither variant was morally or biologically superior; each was just more or less adapted to a particular environment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She consulted Calpurnia, who said nobody could do anything about her shape, that’s just the way she was, which was the way all girls more or less were when they were fourteen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When he was small, I more or less stopped working with the chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brian had more or less arrowed the plane into the water—through the trees and down—and it was a miracle that he hadn’t been killed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

What had been more or less de facto was to become relentlessly de jure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything here is more or less back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to worry about whether she is more or less angry than she was the day before. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cities worked very hard to stay independent of one another, but the Pretty Committee was a global institution that made sure pretties were all more or less the same. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Politics had come through the door after all, more or less at Lawrence’s invitation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I know this room is supposed to be more or less soundproof . . . but I swear I hear the sound of guns and the vibrations of distant screams. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She always knew where she was, though most streets looked more or less the same. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“After a year, you seem to be more or less alive. I wonder how that’s possible when the average life expectancy in these mines is a month.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And that was more or less the way things stayed throughout our last days at Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Michael,” Uncle Brian said, “you're mistaken, for once in your life. The accountancy game's more or less immune to economic doldrums.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She stopped by a CVS and bought costumes—matching ninja outfits that were more or less black plastic sheets with hoods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And I took a bulldozer and cleared four acres and moved in more or less like I owned the place. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I understand some of the words in Spanish, and the rest I can more or less fill in. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more or less used to saying wife, to being called husband, whatever that meant. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I was dying, too, and yet there I stood, battered and bruised but more or less fully functioning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was woodland nearby and they could vanish into it, keeping more or less together, and simply continue on their way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a place where everyone fits in, more or less, but where, if you look hard enough, nobody feels really at home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Except for nursing the baby, she was more or less free to hold him or put him down, same as if she was his grandmother or a maiden aunt. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m more or less safe from him, and him from me, I can recall him with fondness and even in some detail, which is more than I can say for several others. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she personally found poetry very interesting, and since her students were more or less blank slates when it came to literature, she felt she might as well do what she liked. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

My father’s response was more or less typical of that of other men in the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which must have been more or less right. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Since then, this science has developed in more or less parallel with biology, but more quietly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember, I’m afraid. But I don’t see that any of us could possibly have known. Anyway, what’s a doe more or less?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Malpighi’s observations had been reported piece by piece to the scientific community more or less as they had been made. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The two men walked more or less side by side, feet echoing on metal and concrete. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Down below, Amarante wasn’t thinking much about the consequences of shooting Ladd Devine’s plane from the sky, he was more or less allowing himself to be led by divine guidance, as it were. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk splintered and broke, leaving the draccus with a large but manageable mouthful that it bolted down more or less whole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later we’re going to be a cinder anyway, he implies, so why worry about a few cows more or less? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like she’d been sitting there waiting, if not for me precisely, then for someone more or less like me from the old days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist up, he was more or less human—a thin, bare-chested dude with a dagger in his belt and a band of seashells strapped across his chest like a bandolier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tally didn’t have much experience in judging an ugly’s age, but she turned out to be more or less right. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One way to fashion an outline is to jot your ideas on a page or on index cards more or less at random and then look for ones that seem to belong together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or was he more or less predisposed than the rest of us to lose his focus, take his eyes from the road, fiddle with his phone? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That, as it doesn’t take much noticing, is more or less how we’re taught to write essays at school. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Minerva is up on a stool, counting cans, correcting herself, adding “more or less,” when Dede repeats the figure before she writes it down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a lot of nineteenth-century stuff by Thomas Hardy and people like that, which was more or less useless. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody still poor as church mice, yet more or less content. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the athletes began to march out of the stadium that evening, nearly everyone on the field and off felt more or less stunned. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The stairs themselves seemed more or less unharmed, save for some carpets kicked askew and the ribbon bows untied and thrown everywhere, but the second floor landing was, as they say nowadays, trashed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Most days Olmsted was driven by carriage through the countryside, “every day more or less on a different road,” to view gardens, churchyards, private parks, and the natural landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have to, more or less, crawl into the barrel, headfirst. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was delighted; he thought he’d be able to paddle for miles without tiring, and camp anywhere, more or less invisibly, and altogether own the water in a quite new way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It replaced the manuscript, read more or less in isolation from other texts, with a book which could be consulted in a library, surrounded by competing authorities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

By now it all seems more or less welded together by its own decay. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strict menu restrictions had promptly been lifted, and the boys began more or less living in the tourist- class dining salon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This was more or less his general state of existence, a fact that had earned him the nickname “Beetroot.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I, however, a tropical bird, was cold—cold one way outdoors and cold another way indoors, ceaselessly and more or less thoroughly cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder, does that make ye more or less confident in your choice?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

So my life was more or less uncomplicated. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Outside again, he spent a bungling five minutes sloppily tying the cords holding his suitcase together, and, when that was more or less accomplished, he hoisted the suitcase with a grunt and began walking west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The built-in fly escaped the flames, so it was still more or less weatherproof; now, however, it was approximately thirty degrees colder inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Obscure Object suffered from a more or less constant case of heartburn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Things are more or less back to normal here. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This makes it more or less impossible for it to get its teeth into a vast smooth curving surface such as the side of a peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It means, more or less, “people of the land of rubber.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He shrugged slightly, as much as to imply, it seemed to me, that the picture had more or less been planted on him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But mostly I heard about them, and when I did, I quizzed people until I’d got a more or less full account. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a frill on a dress. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drove them back home and I think they more or less approved of my driving. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She pulled another arrow, and another, and sent them all, more or less, into the post. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a week I had adjusted, more or less. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The college students, by contrast, were willing to wait a bit, and they were prepared to wait more or less time depending on who the text was from. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The only societies that survived more or less intact were those in areas of northern and western Australia useless to Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little after 4 p.m.; we’d pulled out more or less on time. Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z

On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being full-blown right-winger and 10 being full-tilt left-winger, they put themselves more or less in the middle, both of them espousing an essentially libertarian agenda. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z

Adorable Cleo just smiles sweetly at him and goes along with everything – more or less like everyone else in his life; there is only the blandest and most lenient recrimination right at the end. Somewhere 2010-09-03T14:54:00Z

Stiff competition from Hollywood and the ravages of World War II had more or less shuttered the country’s film industry by the 1960s. Rediscovering Australia’s Generation of Defiant Female Directors 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

If you already watched all the other ones that are more or less like this, this is perfectly fine. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Confronting all sorts of monsters and enemies, that chain of events somehow manages to get us fed, more or less, every day. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

By the time Kazan was 23 and met Dano, when they both appeared in a 2007 off-Broadway play, she was more or less recovered. Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

We both make money doing stuff that we do, more or less. Gene Simmons: “I don’t really care about your culture” 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

It is more or less a xylophone, festooned with two rows of wine and liquor bottles that can be struck, along with the hubcaps and a kettle lid. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

His R.F.K. presides over a country in which war and partisanship have wrought growing disaffection with the notion that “government did more or less the right thing most of the time.” Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

When we finally moved into our new house last winter, I was delighted by the chance to rebuild my condiment hoard more or less from the ground up. What condiments would you take on a cross-country move? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

I began by thinking of altruism as a more or less faithful rendition of its Latin root: alter/other; selfless compassion for the “other.” Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Of course, many actors on long-running series garner producing credits, some more or less symbolic. Tom Welling, CW?s Producer of Steel on ?Hellcats? 2010-08-20T17:44:00Z

The most famous balcony scene in all of drama is here played out more or less at stage level; if a visual emblem of the diminished reach of this production was needed, there it is. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

At intervals of a decade, Ofcom polls viewers about whether they are getting more or less sex on television than they would like. Sex on television: what is the right amount? 2013-05-08T12:07:58Z

You’re more or less on your own, except for clutches of other visitors, including teenagers camped out, smoking and looking generally unsavory. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z

This Indomitable Judy, however, is not the subject of “End of the Rainbow,” which is, more or less, a gay version of “The Passion of the Christ.” Judy Garland, Gay Idol Then and ?Over the Rainbow? Now 2012-04-05T20:43:41Z

James Wood, in the New Yorker, wonders: “Who cares about a bunch of more or less privileged North American artists, at leisure to examine their creative ambitions and anxieties?” If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z

“Spiritual” felt questing but matter-of-fact, no more or less mysterious than a storm system rolling in. Review: In the Sanctuary of ‘The Spiritual Side of Coltrane’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

This is more or less what Jane The Virgin did last year, pinging forwards three years after a major character death to avoid the whole series getting bogged down in uncharacteristically realistic grief. Small-screen time jumps: forward-thinking TV or lazy storytelling? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

To my ear, he quotes Brahms more or less directly only in a phrase or two midway through the piece, and in another one at the end. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Thoreau didn’t overdo his retreat into nature: he kept up the dinner parties with philosophical friends and restricted himself to a couple of years, more or less, out in the countryside. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

“I compromised with her mom,” Mr. Jackson more or less explained. Film: Quinton Jackson of ?A-Team,? A Mr. T for Our Times 2010-06-03T19:58:00Z

He’s kept his birth name one, more or less. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

A career on camera — and more recently, behind it — is Gordon’s birthright, more or less. In ‘The Bear,’ Molly Gordon Is More Than the Girl Next Door 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

But there's some more or less clever stuff done on the cheap. Bad Business = Good Entertainment 2010-04-22T18:09:00Z

She’d sung it to herself each morning, and it had, more or less, lodged itself in her brain. How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The iconography, with many a mawkish muddle, is more or less south Indian. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

And he’s threatened to declare a national emergency in order to get what he wants more or less by fiat. Smart Watch: "Valley of the Boom," "Corporate" returns, and "The Dictator's Playbook" on PBS 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

The serious undercurrents are more or less abandoned as the characters are transformed into brittle, if sometimes funny, caricatures. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z

She returned to her full-time academic post at Princeton, which offered flexible hours more conducive to family life, and was more or less satisfied with her decision. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s ‘Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family’ 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

But “The Son of Bigfoot,” an English-language production from Belgium, more or less does what it sets out to do, which is to offer enough visual activity and bromides to keep the very young interested. Review: In ‘The Son of Bigfoot,’ a Boy, His Father and a Hairy Situation 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

We thought about cooking in more or less the same way. Jacques Pépin named first recipient of the Julia Child Award 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Flag those intolerances up early and you might argue that, whether cooking for six or 16, it is no more or less difficult to cook an extra portion for one person with specific dietary needs. The new rules of dinner parties: don't be on time – and bring more booze than you need 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Still, the evening as a whole was an example of a kind of programming we’d like to see more of: offering something for everyone, and more or less pulling it off. Review | The BSO gives them something to shout about with an edgy program 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The story is set, more or less, in contemporary Russia, complete with swindlers, oligarchs, real-estate development, and homelessness. This Week in Fiction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Poverty and Fairy Tales 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Recipes vary by person, but the formula for baked oats remains more or less the same: Baked oats are turning oatmeal haters into lovers 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

"This technology, more or less nondestructively, helps us understand the people beneath the bundles." At Natural History Museum, mummies' secrets unwrapped with today's tech 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

On the small screen, we bring you news that standup Greg Davies has had his own more or less autobiographical sitcom commissioned by Channel 4. Talk show hosts vote with their jokes – and which standups are in the money 2012-11-06T17:02:36Z

Are Swift’s lyrics getting more or less specific? Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’: Listener Mailbag 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

Never mind that Catherine is about to have a fancy engagement party in the Hamptons and already thinks of herself as being “more or less married” to her fiancé, Victor. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

Sophisticates, on the other hand, are supposed to attend to more or less abstract aspects like composition, color and style, without regard for subject matter or superficial feats of technique. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z

I was travelling around the island more or less on the coast, where towns are like punctuation marks. Rachel Roddy’s Sicilian pasta with anchovy, lemon and breadcrumbs 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Political art as such, Adams thinks, is more or less doomed to fail as both politics and art. Seattle Symphony to present world premiere of John Luther Adams’ highly anticipated ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

And then she more or less went away, retreating into real life. Music Review: Iris DeMent at City Winery 2013-01-23T22:12:33Z

And, let’s think of it musically: Mr. Haynes and Mr. Trucks, as a unit and more or less the focal point of the group, are something special. Music Review: A Most Satisfying End of the Road for Allman Brothers 2014-03-08T23:59:44Z

For years before his Indonesian sojourn, he was already carrying on a more or less public inquiry into his own well-being as an analogue to his design practice. Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z

But he also reduces female agency to more or less nothing. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

As for literature, it was more or less over, he declared more than once, and he had reached a point where he no longer much cared. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z

Big Apple Circus has switched from nonprofit to for-profit, but on a Saturday this month, the big top looked more or less the same. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Harding eventually became an assistant in Birmingham and even lodged with the Rattles, who would feed him ham sandwiches, which were more or less all he ate at the time. Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

That emerged organically, more or less as you see it in the film, over time, gradually. The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ and Oscar Voters’ Aversion to Violence 2014-02-21T13:30:52Z

Sewage treatment facilities are more or less nonexistent. Architecture: Plan Calls for Rebuilding Haiti Away From Port-au-Prince 2010-03-30T22:02:00Z

Yet the movie elides more or less all of the substance in this backstory, leaving the central relationship of the film, the marital one, utterly opaque. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Reviewed: Richard Linklater’s Narrow View of a Creator in Crisis 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The arcades also allow different kinds of use in different seasons – they can be more or less occupied depending on the weather. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z

He went up another level – in more or less every room until you approach the end he seems to have pushed a little bit higher. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z

It is an ugly story based on the ability of husbands to commit inconvenient wives more or less at whim as long as they pay the incarcerating asylum’s fees. Review | In ‘Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit,’ being one of the first female sheriff’s deputies is tough business 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

With the pandemic more or less preventing live indoor performances, this is a moment suited to outdoor sound walks. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Every sentence is more or less quotable, but Amazon rounded up the top 10 most highlighted quotes from Fifty Shades’ Kindle e-book edition. These are The 10 Most Highlighted '50 Shades of Grey' Passages 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Television shows posit a hideous future with a silver lining; survivors, good or bad, are more or less equals. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

This is, more or less, what we were promised. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

What you’ve heard about the movie is more or less true. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

All of these have in common a more or less explicit metaphorical conflation of war and sexual violence. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z

It was "Music from the Movies" night on Idol, which, given the abundance of soundtracks, more or less translates to "Any Song Ever Written" night. Judging American Idol: The Final 8 2011-04-14T09:00:00Z

Though financed more or less from petty cash, Mr. Fitch’s theatrical solutions seem to have been extremely apt. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

But regardless of its pop culture appearances, the general public’s impression of the game had more or less remained the same: Dungeons & Dragons was for outcasts. Who’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons These Days? The Usual Fans, and Then Some. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

What each group played adhered, more or less, to the image it projected. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z

"In Russia there is a national sort of sense that a lot of people believe that the girls got more or less what they deserved," he said. New Russian punk band documentary uncovers story behind 'punk prayer' protest 2013-01-25T23:40:35Z

By then, he had more or less retired from the music business. Jimmy Dean obituary 2010-06-16T17:22:00Z

Suddenly, I got a call from his family saying, more or less, "He left you his files." "The moment blew my mind": Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone, says new Netflix show 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The baddie, too, is less operatic: Michael Keaton plays a more or less regular guy who turned super-villain. Tom Holland Was Born to Be Spider-Man. Playing Peter Parker Was Another Story. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

The moment following a morning shot you’re more or less a philosophical zombie: a wobbly, stumbling mass of bones barely qualified to be called conscious. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Shuffle Along” reclaims a musical more or less lost to history and affirms the importance of black artists to Broadway going back almost a century. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, that's more or less what he does across the album. Willy Moon: Here's Willy Moon – review 2013-04-04T21:14:01Z

In 1971 he took his family to Madras, India, where he more or less gave up painting and wrote the first of several novels, “Gates of Fire.” Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ?60s 2011-04-08T23:38:27Z

“Classical music is an irrelevance, more or less, and orchestras have become marginal in American life,” Horowitz says, explaining the need for the kind of creative partnering that Fifth House practices, too. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

For while we in English language audiences know Lambert almost entirely as a bargain-bin action name, he more or less deserted that market around five years ago. How Christophe Lambert went from action flops to arthouse acclaim 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z

We were the beneficiaries of a press tour and had the place more or less to ourselves. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

The road more or less dead-ended at Caboose, located near the namesake rail car of the W&OD Trail. At these breweries, the food is so much more than an afterthought 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s just one is more or less clean, and the other has lived many years and has gone through a lot of things.” In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

That experience set off a few alarm bells, she says, but she more or less brushed them off. "He made their lives miserable": How the showrunner of a popular courtroom drama finally got fired 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Each of the supporting characters gets a single joke, more or less, with a few repetitions. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Kajanus' performance of Sibelius' Second spanned 39 minutes, but Tilson Thomas' performance Tuesday took a leisurely 48 minutes, which is more or less in line with today's predominantly slower tempi. TilsonThomas leads London Symphony in victory lap at Disney Hall 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

As his career progressed, Memling more or less cornered the market on portraiture in Bruges, appealing to both a local and an international clientele. A Hans Memling Show Is More Than the Sum of Its Divine Parts 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

That a novel whose subject is more or less "M. is executed for going to the cinema the day after his mother's death" should be plausible and, what is more, compelling, is already sufficient. Rouge et noir 2011-03-26T00:05:23Z

But history has more or less forgotten Boston Corbett, the Union soldier who helped hunt down Booth and fired the shot that killed him. Coming to the Festival of Books: Scott Martelle 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

The oldest piece, a trefoil-shaped cosmetics box covered in tiny shards of glinting orange and pink, dates back to the 12th century, more or less. Woodblock Prints and Hindu Gods at Asia Week New York 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

His trio with Mr. Hébert and Mr. McPherson has been working more or less steadily for the last five years, developing an imposing level of collective empathy. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

In other words, everyone but we ourselves seems more or less like the selves we read about in fiction. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

It follows, in more or less paired scenes, two Los Angeles couples on an eventful night before an important tomorrow morning. | 'Tomorrow Morning': The Night They Called It a Day 2011-04-03T21:10:14Z

"Chickens were domesticated over three thousand years ago and have been living in our yards — more or less — ever since," she writes. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

When the world demands a lot from women, who more or less can all be black cats sometimes, it’s nice to have a simple-minded boyfriend that manages to get a coffee order right. Why does everyone want to date a "golden retriever boyfriend?" 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z

She simply leaves Casey in a very promising place, no more or less precarious than she had been when things were bad and could turn good. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

In this case, the parent is acting as a “sounding board,” letting the child work through problems more or less independently. How to Help Your Kid With Math Even if You Suck at it 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

An unambiguously tonal section ensues, more or less in the key of G-sharp minor. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Elephant and Piggie are my two best friends,” he says, more or less believably. Mo Willems and the Art of the Children’s Book 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The first one he learned was Mini, which he could say more or less perfectly. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

“His audience is mainly a white audience and the Negro actor has, for a long time, been asked to entertain this more or less alien group.” How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

The attenuated scenario more or less demands that Lucy and Lee fall in and out of each other’s affections so as to generate suspense in between the pro forma name-dropping — Bette Davis! A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Does "3D" in a title make you more or less interested in seeing the movie? "Avatar" returns to theaters, and more 3D talk 2010-07-08T17:38:00Z

My response was, more or less, “Well, because all of those things are still happening, for one thing.” This artist, chosen as the ‘DNA and soul of Black art in Seattle,’ will be in an Amazon Prime Video series 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

She was a more or less willing participant, she admits. Books of The Times: In ‘The Girl,’ Samantha Geimer Revisits the Polanski Case 2013-09-01T22:04:58Z

I don’t know if that makes the show any more or less poignant or entertaining than any other time. Ricky Gervais on ‘After Life’ and Life After the Golden Globes 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The bug” is an obsession with written communication, which has more or less taken over his life. Explaining the Popularity of Letters of Note 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Baron Cohen treated him more or less the same as he treated the dignitaries that he fooled. The big Sacha Baron Cohen question: Can a harmless prankster become a weaponized troll? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Out goes the poetry, more or less, to be replaced by prose dialogue stuffed with contemporary vernacular and quite a few nice jokes. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Of food, I said, which was true, more or less. The Japanese Fried-Rice Omelette That Rewired My Brain 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

But later, when she more or less had the stage to herself, she moved with relish. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Black Masses” is more or less a re-enactment of the narrowest understanding of early Black Sabbath. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z

Aside from a few instances of graceful, illusory stagecraft — including a lovely scene in which an execution morphs into a wedding celebration — what you see is more or less what you get. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z

Bows were seldom raised from the strings and more or less indiscriminate vibrato was liberally applied. Review | Takacs Quartet delivers buoyant Mozart 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

At the end, it's more or less the same world. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

The same question, more or less, faces “The Great Wall” as it begins its global theatrical release. The East Lobs a Blockbuster-Hopeful to the West With ‘The Great Wall’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

He ended up entering a local competition, Essex Factor, more or less by accident; his mate was a judge so he went along, had a few drinks and got talked into performing Lady Gaga. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z

Hilarity ensues, more or less, with just enough LOLs to make the show endurable rather than memorable. In Fox’s ‘The Mick,’ Kaitlin Olson goes from ‘Sunny’ to something more cloudy 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

I don’t think A Light That Never Goes Out will be definitive either, but I read it more or less word for word anyway. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z

All of this is more or less as it happened, but soon there is so much tortured bed-hopping and half-stifled jealousy in the film that there's almost nothing else. Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z

Of course religious connections between us abound, but not any more or less than the connections that exist between Islam and Christianity, or indeed any grouping of the Abrahamic trio. The Infidel: a case of mistaken identity 2010-04-08T11:00:00Z

Even this month a Google employee, in a now infamous screed, insisted that the deeply unequal landscape of Silicon Valley’s white-collar jobs is due to nothing more or less than men’s superior capacity. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

In the 1990s he more or less disappeared, personally and professionally — drugs were part of the story — with a brief uptick in visibility at the end. Art in Review: ‘Where Is Jack Goldstein?’ 2012-12-20T21:35:48Z

She is more or less trapped in the great imperial palace – the chilled corridors, terrifying dungeons and perfumed courtyards that Duffy lovingly summons into being. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy - review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z

He has always been a sort of self-taught filmmaker, he added, and got into the business more or less accidentally. This Time, Kenneth Lonergan Has the Last Say 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The same, more or less, is said in a group with broader appeal, “Dirty Old 1970’s New York City.” Our old-timey addiction: Why we can’t get enough of century-old images 2013-12-14T23:00:00Z

A collaborative of designers, filmmakers, coders, archaeologists, psychologists and others, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, Forensic Architecture acts more or less like a detective agency. Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

What’s done is done, one man more or less says, as another pours the beer. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z

Because her baby son was now more or less vegan by default, she joined him – and today the pair are strictly plant-based. ‘If they’re not eating any vegetables, you panic’: the families raising vegan children 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Indeed, anything that goes viral and doesn’t feature the host in a central role is more or less a happy surprise these days. "Saturday Night Live" has a problem not even Matt Damon can solve 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

At the time of the work’s premiere, Reich and his own ensemble were more or less the only artists able to perform his pieces. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

This isn’t a premise that dryer companies often contest; their fight concerns the regular public restroom, where they argue that hand dryers are no more or less sanitary than paper towels. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Our high school history textbooks’ overall story line is, “We started out great and have been getting better ever since,” more or less automatically. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

Iolanta, the blind daughter of King René and a lovely, sensitive soul, is surrounded by more or less loutish men, starting with her father. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

A truly greedy executive would stay more or less anonymous. Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Netter was married with grown children, and Moore was still married, under increasing strain, to her husband in Chicago, but “became, more or less overnight, his girlfriend.” From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Discord, which would more or less make sense to an IRC user from 1988, can be understood as an attempt to build a social media that is ultimately subordinate to chatting. The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

And there matters stood, more or less, until 1990, when Amy Gary, a former Doubleday sales representative who had started a small publishing company, got a glimpse of what was in the trunk. A New Phase of ‘Goodnight Moon’? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The toys haven't been played with in years, and are more or less prepared for an "orderly transition" to life in the attic. "Toy Story 3": Loads of calculated summer delight! 2010-06-18T00:20:00Z

How would you have felt hearing more or less the same vocals backed by a chamber ensemble? Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

My life in London is more or less the same. ‘House of the Dragon’ Star Fabien Frankel on Playing Kingmaker 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

From an aristocratic Spanish background, Fiamma is an independent spirit who doesn’t struggle to fit in with the group and seems more or less immune to its members’ hostility when they turn on her. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z

Just like me, they seemed to love having the place more or less to themselves. Overnighter: In Bratislava, Slovakia, a Chance to Enjoy Local Flavors Without the Crowds ? Overnighter 2012-03-02T23:25:20Z

But gossip, Lui says, is nothing more or less than “the exchange of valuable information.” Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Infamous Players” picks up more or less where Mark Harris’s “Pictures at a Revolution” leaves off. Books of The Times: Near the Top at Paramount, Handling Players and Egos 2011-05-11T22:55:27Z

Or is this entire experience making you more or less creative songwriting-wise? Todd Rundgren on no more Trump songs, his high-tech "spectacle" of a tour, and the new Sparks collab 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

Her example was not lost on Mr. Tilton, who more or less stumbled into his position at the gallery. Jack Tilton, Art Dealer With an Eye for the New, Dies at 66 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

From the opening setup, the show more or less dispenses with historical fact. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Top-secret spying, courting ancestral spirits: Are these more or less equivalent activities? Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

I did think what it would be like to be translated from a more or less private person to a public one. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

The result is more or less the perfect coffee-table book for the starving artist in your life. An artistic Who’s Who of who slept with whom 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

I thought, more or less: I would very much like to be her friend. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

While some Dickens characters are more or less forgotten, others remain part of the national consciousness. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Are you more or less likely to riot if you read? Reading the riot acts: why wasn't Waterstone's looted? 2011-08-12T11:03:04Z

And it has worked, more or less, for over 40 years. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z

The GSL has progressed more or less on each of these issues since the end of the conflict. US embassy cables: 'Progress' on human rights in Sri Lanka 2010-12-16T21:30:40Z

Walmart stands more or less on the land where the tiny restaurant once operated. MLK’s booth at his go-to barbecue joint became a memorial. Then it disappeared. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Are all quilts an act of commemoration, more or less public or private? Quilts 1700-2010 | Art review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

It’s been 12 years and it’s more or less like our first date. Miranda July: ‘I always jump in when there’s an injustice’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

A half-hour demolition job, more or less, from a great vocal group that connects current gospel to ’70s soul and understands performance as ecstatic transference. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a solid move, because otherwise most kids’ movies would be, more or less, about a really slow, internal war against time. Everyone dies: Why the best kids’ movies are also the saddest 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure that’s more or less what I was saying. Sapiosexuals: are some people really only sexually attracted to intelligence? 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“I’d put the top three panels at ground level to paint. It was more or less fingers crossed that everything would line up,” he says. Airport art doesn’t have to be boring: Here are some of the country’s most striking examples 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

By that time, however, Mr. Falk and Columbo had become more or less interchangeable as cultural references. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z

Each of the 45 Yellow Chilli locations worldwide, including branches in Oman and Canada, is designed to look more or less the same on the inside. They Were Fans of the Chef. Now They Run His Restaurant. 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Italian meringues can be used more or less interchangeably with Swiss meringues, but are preferable when increased stability is required, as in professional kitchens and candy making. The Magic of Meringues 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

This shouldn't be a shocker, since Krasinski has more or less successfully transitioned into the runnin’ and gunnin’ marketplace thanks to his work in the horror sleeper “A Quiet Place” and “13 Hours” before that. Smart Watch: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Ava DuVernay’s “August 28″ and more top TV thi... 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

In this case, cream refers to pastry cream, which is more or less vanilla pudding. How to blind-bake pie crust like a pro 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

“The car is a more or less invincible aggressor,” she writes. Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

VandeHei has already more or less checked out; he has rarely been in Politico’s Arlington headquarters since late January and has begun interviewing job candidates for a new, still-unnamed news venture. Politico’s senior managers are beating an early retreat 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

I guess no childhood is without inner turmoil sometimes, but mine was more or less happy. Isabelle Huppert: ‘I may try yoga one day, but I prefer to sleep’ 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Yet what more or less amounted to a form of steaming produced a fabulous, straight-ahead corn flavor that a little butter or olive oil slathered on — afterward — only enhanced. This one simple trick can help you grill the perfect corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Now that “Zore,” Mario Gonzalez Jr., is 45, the former subway artist works in his Chicago studio more or less full-time, but he said of graffiti, “It’s not vandalism; it’s beautification.” Critics’ pens vs. spray cans: Reviews of a play about graffiti spark controversy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

We’re more or less reconciled to the reality that machines are, in some ways, smarter than we are. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Domestic questions that are burning and unanswerable in more or less equal measure are a staple of social media. The new household rules: ditch your toilet brush and wash much, much more 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

That is a figure Man v Fat has more or less maintained in the three years since launching, with more than 70 leagues now operating all over the UK. Goal! The football league that helped me lose five stone 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Once we could more or less expect good farmers to be the parents of good farmers. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Each episode is more or less one session, and the show airs in two-episode chunks Sundays and Mondays. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tiboni, 44, more or less agreed, recalling a match in which he was initially winning 13 to 1 but ended up being defeated 14 to 15. Just Like the Good Old Days in the Ring 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z

The film is forthright in revealing the personal life of this haughty, glamorous art star whose lovers were women of more or less equal accomplishment. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z

“When I’m doing events, I more or less crush it,” he said. Hidden Bias in the Wedding Industrial Complex 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

X-ray testing confirmed facts that everyone more or less knew. Critic?s Notebook: Alone in the Wilderness and the Spotlight 2011-06-09T23:01:20Z

But wouldn’t a single market entail the more or less free movement of labor—the Briton who goes off to work in Paris, the Greek who comes to teach in Bristol? On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the end, eschewing a tradition that more or less served as the very foundation of his brotherhood proved a step too far for Jon Snow. Game of Thrones Recap: Season 5 Finale 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Patristic exegesis comprises all the more or less allegorical methods by which St. Augustine and other church fathers interpreted the Bible. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Fashion is not an altogether natural fit for Los Angeles, a town more or less founded in opposition to the compulsive one-upmanship and rigid hierarchies that rule the industry. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z

If I were to compare him with his peers in the English novel, I would compare him with Kingsley Amis or Evelyn Waugh, who were more or less his contemporaries. Writer's centenary is celebrated 2013-07-06T10:35:47Z

Usually I’m reading three or four books more or less simultaneously — just starting one, halfway through a second, and about to finish a third or fourth. Shelf Talk | Nightstand reads: Russell Banks 2011-09-26T22:04:24Z

Ever since “The Daily Show” merged late-night talk variety’s host-behind-a-desk format with a hard focus on satirizing current events, all of its offshoots have more or less cribbed that structure. Hasan Minhaj’s (r)evolution: “Patriot Act” breaks free from “The Daily Show” format and... 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the musical performance under David Parry sweeps more or less everything before it. Armida 2010-06-08T21:01:00Z

“That divide has more or less evaporated,” he said. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Langella translates those watchwords into acting that more or less erases everyone else in view. | 'Man and Boy': ?Man and Boy,? With Frank Langella - Review 2011-10-10T02:01:09Z

Since that was written, it has more or less lived up to that, including links to slightly longer stories on its own site or much longer dives on other outlets. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The siblings’ ascent takes up the first half, but then CeCe become more or less a supporting character in the second, when BeBe flirts uneasily with crossover fame. Review: Music trumps storytelling in 'Born for This,' the BeBe and CeCe Winans story 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

It more or less worked with Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly because of the original's confined setting. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z

But the game is more or less a high-definition upgrade of a proven offering. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

She did, and she’s been their on-site artist more or less ever since. An Artist Redefines Power. With Sanitation Equipment. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

In both she plays, more or less, herself. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z

He’s required to talk more or less nonstop for an hour and 15 minutes, and he handles the challenge with theatrical brio and astonishing breath control. In 'Aunt Sally,' a lonely teen, a teacher who crosses a line and the phone that witnesses everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t long afterward that Varble more or less vanished from the downtown scene. Stephen Varble: The Street Was His Stage, the Dress Was His Weapon 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

I mention all this because my acquaintance with Dickens was more or less typical of what literary-minded, privileged boys and girls of a certain era enjoyed. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

When addiction is seen this way, every day is more or less like every other day. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z

But Islamist militants who took over northern portions of the country in 2012 banned more or less all music and drove many musicians into exile. Retrospective captures sensibilities of heralded Thai director

And these images more or less coincided with others of still lifes in which natural forms resemble anatomical specimens. Review: Bada Shanren, Chinese Art Superstar, Takes a Bow at the Freer 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Peck repeats old ideas as dancers move swiftly across the stage to form structures with their bodies — he loves a human haystack — or reach for the stars more or less in place. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Individual people can be complete, more or less, but humanity is an ongoing project. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

As far as the criteria, though, most admit that it’s more or less “I know it when I hear it.” Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

In a separate bowl, more or less ionized, beat together the butter and brown sugar until the mixture is a pale golden color and mousse-like. These chocolate chip cookies are inspired by the hit film "Ghostbusters" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

Will its eccentricities of pacing and form seem more or less convincing than they once were? ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z

“The symbolism of an object may be more or less explicit, but it is always there. We might even say that in a narrative, any object is always magic.” What Pokémon Can Teach Us About Fiction 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Like many great hole-in-the-wall music clubs, The Eddy is a treasure because its music is made of soul and fire, and nearly every musical number is presented more or less in its entirety. Le sigh! Netflix's Damien Chazelle drama "The Eddy" mixes jazz with misery 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

That is more or less it for examples of original 1970s punk. At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z

And she more or less credits herself with reigniting it by giving him confidence. Mahler Was More a Romantic Than Scholars Thought 2013-07-26T16:47:28Z

He sort of finished, more or less, in the same calendar month as the band, which had not been the case in rehearsal. A Minute With: Hugh Laurie sings the blues after 'House' 2013-08-14T12:10:18Z

As it is, that title is more or less what Kathy Bates screams at James Caan not that long into “Misery.” Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

After six seasons, "Tales from the Crypt" had more or less exhausted California's reserve of actors and filmmakers. 12 spine-tingling facts about "Tales From the Crypt" 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Is the tragic fall and rise of Bubbles any more or less engaging than the rise and fall of Christopher Moltisanti? The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

Would that be more or less rewarding for this role? A Minute With: Jessica Chastain on "Zero Dark Thirty" 2012-12-19T15:22:59Z

I especially enjoyed accounts I found in history books of the more or less spontaneous frost fairs which took place on the frozen Thames from the 1600s onwards. Tim Etchells on performance: Virtual events occur in spirit on a mystic river 2010-09-22T15:41:00Z

That didn’t make me like the movie any more or less; it was just a reminder that some foreign movies can be more foreign to us than others. Big Questions, Smart Women, Mann?s Movies 2011-04-22T13:31:51Z

It was as an aspiring artist that he went back to France more or less permanently in the 1850s. Art Review: Populating the Landscape With Idealism 2011-08-04T21:46:17Z

This more or less actually happens now, though it’s the information that moves fast, not the people; as far as I can tell that Niven story is the source for the term “flash mob.” Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z

We had a pop at Jodie Marsh for doing more or less the same and … well. MTV VMAs: can the award show predict who’ll be famous in five years? 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

While that arrangement has always marginalized undocumented workers, farms have, until recently, been more or less able to hire enough people to get the job done. It’s been a big year for the labor movement. What about farmworkers? 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s more or less what I believed, although I do tend to also accept the notion of paranormal energy. Modern Love: An Agnostic’s Guide to Marriage 2012-08-30T17:01:27Z

“Them,” episode ten of the fifth season of The Walking Dead, more or less provides an answer. Characters on 'The Walking Dead' Are Really Crying a Lot 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

The obvious reason that it should be black and white and in that boxy format, four by three, is because that’s more or less how I remember that time. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I mean, it's still on people's minds but most photography galleries are selling more or less contemporary photographs printed digitally. Lens Blog: Howard Greenberg's Personal Photo Collection on View 2012-09-24T09:00:34Z

Their characters are more or less generic immigrant archetypes, but the actors do a great job of hiding how exhausted they must be from the constant march of history and costume changes. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Land,’ at Baruch Performing Arts Center 2012-11-23T21:44:28Z

In “Lara,” Anna Pasternak treats “Doctor Zhivago” as a romance, more or less interchangeable with the hit movie, and she displays minimal understanding of Pasternak’s literary achievement. Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Gloria, he said, is more or less of his mother’s generation, even though she is younger than his mother in real life. Making Room on the Big Screen for a Woman Over 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Baldly topical, more or less explicitly political theater can be heavy-handed, even strident in the wrong hands. ‘Spill’: A devastating account of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“They were more or less trying to find America’s role model,” she said of the show, a joint venture between MTV and Seventeen Magazine. Two Filmmakers Write Their Own Love Story 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

The answer is, surprisingly, the Atlantic, since the canal runs more or less north to south but on a slant. Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable 2013-02-01T15:39:43Z

That, more or less, is what happens on “The Toy Box,” a competition series for toy inventors that begins Friday, April 7, on ABC. ABC’s ‘The Toy Box’ Lets Kids Run the Shark Tank 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

We wondered last week about how Sansa’s arrival would affect Reek, who had more or less embraced his debasement by Ramsay and accepted his new lot in the kennel of life. 'Game of Thrones' Invites You To Another Terrible Wedding 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

These grim numbers are instead gleaned entirely from five productions that I saw more or less back-to-back. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

It is hard to predict if pot will become more or less popular at weddings in the future. Marijuana Is a Welcome Wedding Guest in Colorado and Washington State 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Caterers are more or less creating a restaurant in your home for a few hours. Hiring a catering company for a dinner party is expensive. Is the payoff worth the cost?

Blank more or less made a movie of her life, not the movie of her life. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The underlying plot of the film is more or less a brotherly love triangle between the three men. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

While more familiar beef cuts are more or less the ruby red of uncooked steak, this one is a pale and milky pink, from which it gets one of its names, “rose meat.” Taqueria Ramírez Brings a Mexico City Specialty to Brooklyn 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

You can’t be categorical about its prospects one way or the other, because several more or less similar ventures have come and gone in recent years. Early Music and Its Future 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The more or less straightforward introduction set up expectations that were meanderingly subverted. Grasping for Dad's story in 'The Institute of Memory (TIMe)' 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

They've said it themselves – after more or less every album, it's like they split up, and they need to find a good reason to get back together again and make a new album. Why your favourite band should split up 2010-08-19T20:30:00Z

But the festival, which opens Friday at Lincoln Center, has remained relevant by staying more or less the same. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

This sort of DIY zen is by no means natural to the playa, and while we might have our own drama more or less rigged well, we’re pretty lucky in that regard. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z

The “basic elements of the piece,” he writes in a program note, are “rising and falling,” more or less basic to most music of any traditional bent. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

For the next year, Uber floated more or less under the radar, until the town cracked down shortly after Memorial Day. Muffled in the Hamptons, Uber Makes Some Noise 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Oh, but this would have denied us the chance to take in King's new finale which, as it turns out, more or less adapts the ending he wrote in his uncut edition. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Explain what you're making, yes, offer some incentive to people for donating to your project, but, more or less, beg? Starving artists find Web meal ticket 2011-03-09T23:30:00Z

Machiavelli's prince is more often presented as a person who pursues the most effective means of clinging on to a "state" which is more or less a personal fiefdom. The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made by Philip Bobbitt – review 2013-07-11T14:59:00Z

I tuck them inside the pots of my own plants which are always in need of something I can't figure out how to give: more or less light, drier or damper soil, the right food. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

With fewer than a dozen dancers and a light, flexible administrative structure, it is more or less the opposite of the Paris Opera. Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

And as it developed, we turned into more or less a dance band. You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Doyle puts on a good show of stylised jazz-age language, and more or less gets away with using Armstrong as a character, but the structural weaknesses of his long-term plan start to show. The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

I was holding down a mindless part-time job at a teen fashion store, playing keyboards in a band more or less on the weekends and generally feeling pretty miserable about my lot in life. Shirley Manson: The First Time I Cut Myself 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Caird’s book is appealing and his direction more or less nimble. Review: In ‘Daddy Long Legs,’ an Orphan With a Mysterious Benefactor 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

When you headline you can more or less design the stage to your own specifications. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Compared to the fullness past season's instilled in us, however, these felt like empty calories even though the components are more or less the same, save for a couple of ingredient swaps. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

While contemporary work has entered the festival in a big way, that repertory has barely touched the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s core concert series — still stuck, more or less, in 1966. Review: A Gussied-Up Gala of Mozart Opera Excerpts 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some folks, predictably, are more or less the same as they ever were. "Deadwood: The Movie" is a send-off worth the long wait 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Drudge then became more or less the spiritual founder of and gatekeeper to the emerging conservative Internet. Matt Drudge played a major role in the Clinton impeachment. Now he’s back for another round. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

This album is me running around in my underwear, more or less. Q&A: Joanna Newsom on her New Album, 'Have One on Me' 2010-03-01T08:15:00Z

Uglow’s approach is more or less to try to cover the waterfront. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, it's been more or less forgotten by the end of the film. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

We do touch on some interesting new research, which is quite controversial, which touches on different periods in countries’ histories, where different mixes of people create a more or less economically productive society. Morgan Freeman: I think people resisting the idea of climate change are stupid 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Since he has moved more or less permanently behind the camera and no longer acts in his films, Allen plays God with his characters much more. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z

Is it any more or less true than half of what airs on Keeping Up With the Kardashians? Lamar Odom on life support is the most tragic twist yet in the unending Kardashian drama 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

We didn't really know what we were getting into, until it was more or less finished. Lembit Opik stars in music video 2012-02-08T11:28:23Z

Even a week off yoga more or less guarantees a massive effort to rejoin the flow. Fit in my 40s: I’m doing yoga at home. It’s free, but can I ignore the carpet stains? | Zoe Williams 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Because that’s the catchphrase uttered repeatedly by a certain cartoon store clerk, The Simpsons’ Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a beloved recurring character who was more or less a noxious pastiche of south Asian stereotypes. 'Apu was a tool for kids to go after you': why The Simpsons remains problematic 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Eleanor says: I’ve been waiting for this moment, the one where our reaction to the risk starts to change, even though the risk itself stays more or less the same. 'With restrictions easing, how do we tell someone we don’t want them in our bubble?' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Dean does eventually give us one of Hamlet’s soliloquies more or less in its entirety, and it is the soliloquy we have been waiting for since the opening fragment “or not to be.” ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

What shapes the kind of person who declares, as Robinson does, “democracy is my aesthetics and my ethics and more or less my religion”? Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Elric is about law and chaos, and how, sometimes, choosing one over the other is no more or less just. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

It’s more likely that the MCU is simply boring because those behind the MCU have decided, as a more or less conscious policy, to make the films boring. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Mind you, you don't need other people to tell you that; the evidence is there in the interviews with him, in which scorn is poured on more or less everyone. Beware Mr Baker 2013-05-15T08:10:20Z

He’s been saying more or less the same thing since he announced his candidacy for president. Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Colbert, visibly moved, more or less demanded that Biden run for President—if he does, these several minutes on television will be cited, rightly or wrongly, as a turning point. Hillary Clinton Seeks a Viral Hit with Jimmy Fallon 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Once the address got out, they were more or less captives, since so many people showed up that the police had to defend the place. My Obsession with a Beatles Song 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

In the case of any of my novels, I know where I’m starting from, I know where I want to end up, more or less. George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

I put on a hat, which I’d wear more or less nonstop until my early twenties, and tried to get on with my adolescence. An epidemic of absence 2012-09-09T13:00:00Z

One reason Franzen wants to concentrate on immediate conservation tasks is that he’s more or less given up on fighting climate change. Jonathan Franzen Despairs of a Planet Inhospitable to Birds 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

But Shawn, now 70 years old, appears more or less reconciled to what he calls the comical nature of his destiny. Wallace Shawn: I wish people knew me as a radical playwright instead for “The Princess Bride” 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

You know more or less where they’re headed, too, which would be nowhere. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

An unfortunate aftereffect of the strictures enforced by Samuel Beckett during his lifetime, and now by his estate, on productions of “Waiting for Godot” is that every version seems more or less the same. Review | If you’re waiting for a new take on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ you’ll wait some more. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

I dressed more or less in full period costume – corset, puff sleeves, knickerbockers – and even held a pipe on occasion, all under the guise of being "ironic". The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

Because it seems as if he replaced church with brunch more or less on a whim. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Thompson explains that, like “those in the biz,” he will be using those words, as well as “luxury” and “elite,” “more or less interchangeably.” Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

It is also, he says, more or less an impossibility to like both. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

How do you account for the differing styles of photographers when they are all using, more or less, the same device? A Painting? Bruce Berman Prefers Photographs 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

We let those debates happen . . . but we coalesce around a more or less coherent story. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t pop up on our rotation more or less often than anything else. Trust Me on This: “Abbey Road” 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., argued that the majority had erred in more or less brushing aside questions of whether Warhol’s works were artistically transformative. After the Warhol Decision, Another Major Copyright Case Looms 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

At his restaurant Michael compensates for the absence of smell and taste by focusing on the texture and color of the food, and soon all is more or less back to normal. Movie Review: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in ?Perfect Sense? 2012-02-03T00:41:58Z

Blunt, despite an uncertain Anglo-American accent in the opening scene – it settles into being more or less Brit – wears her role lightly. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z

In the course of their time together, Richard and Angela air their grievances with each other, and their families tolerate each other, more or less. 'The Red House': Looking for the heart of family in a narcissistic age 2012-07-03T21:01:09Z

Pope.L was talking about the paradox of his work receiving the support of three of New York’s largest art institutions, after forty years of them more or less ignoring it. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

That may seem like a bunch of features that are more or less average, but what it boils down to, and that most agree on, is that it’s fast, accurate and can handle the paper. Best portable scanner on the market 2012-11-04T17:00:00Z

“You have too many people trying, but that’s going to persist more or less forever precisely because the reward is high,” said Cowen. Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Within my own circle in Los Angeles, there are parents who more or less fit Ms. Druckerman’s stereotype, but many others who defy it. Motherlode Blog: Who Says American Parents Are Inferior? 2012-02-06T19:36:02Z

But because many of Washington’s characters are recent immigrants, that imperative is more or less implied. ‘Lot’ Offers a Fictional Look at a Vibrant, Polyglot American City 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

They spotted 11 strains of microbes that were either more or less common in the ALS-prone animals as the disease progressed and physical symptoms took hold. Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

The second scene takes place in the same park, but the family gathered this time is African-American, although its members have the same names — and more or less the same addictions — as their white counterparts. Review: ‘Barbecue,’ an Intervention With Love, Insults and Whiskey 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He’d been more or less unknown, save for a small role on “Homeland,” before the film’s release. Award Season Kicks Off at Gotham Awards Ceremony 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Mixing racing footage with film of the drivers working their day jobs, the documentary is more or less equally interested in the racing and the culture that surrounds it. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Cold War’ and ‘The OA’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The performance didn’t rely on the material from the album; it was more or less a D.J. set, flowing and expanding and receding, designed at least partly for the body. Review: Holly Herndon, With Laptops, at the Wick 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

They are comfortable with each other, more or less content, but also frustrated, confused, a bit out of sorts. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z

Mr. Weinstein joins a tiny cadre of extremely recognizable celebrities, including O. J. Simpson and Bill Cosby, who have been tried and more or less found guilty in the court of public opinion. Where’s Harvey? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

That first metaphoric pair of glasses rendered me more or less colorblind for a contented few hours. Broadway on Race: Still More Likely to Comfort Than Confront 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Then there’s the reality of Black Breath, from Seattle, whose gregarious, vigorous, line-drive of a set at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on Sunday night transmitted more or less the opposite of all that. Black Breath at Saint Vitus 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

I used to view my birthday as a great excuse to get my friends together but I’ve more or less canned that too. I have culled my friends to just the ones I value 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

For the second draft — insert a certain F-word, in all its forms, into most of the jokes, more or less randomly. Only one joke in 'Your Highness' and it's not very good 2011-04-07T22:00:12Z

It stays more or less on track until Albert accidentally overdoses on a psychedelic potion during a powwow with some friendly Apaches. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The bacteria species in your colon today are more or less the same you had when you were six months old. It's a gut reaction: how other people's bacteria can cure us – extract 2013-03-31T00:05:02Z

Her staple pieces and wasp-waist silhouette remained more or less constant, but the shadings would vary. On The Runway: L’Wren Scott: A Legacy of Elegance 2014-03-21T21:01:46Z

For much of the film's running time, I was at least as bored and irritated as my British neighbor -- perhaps more so, since I remained more or less awake. Cannes: Godard, still alive and still baffling 2010-05-18T15:30:00Z

A sly tease of a picture, it’s an instructive introduction to an enthralling show of 130 paintings and sculptures representing more or less ordinary objects dating from the turn of the 19th century to 1974. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The Met has more or less done the 1884 version since a landmark production there in 1950 reintroduced the opera to the standard repertory after decades of neglect. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Turns out, she more or less did anyway, picking assignments where families are not allowed and leaving her child in the care of her sister and a nanny. ‘Homeland’ Begins Its New Season on Sunday 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Funnily enough, I've got more or less the opening sequence in both films. Animator 'proud' of Snowman film 2012-12-24T08:44:35Z

A scholar who has more or less defined contemporary linguistic analysis, he nonetheless engaged with the world, always on the side of the oppressed. My hero: Noam Chomsky by Charles Glass 2013-03-15T16:00:01Z

The book charts the first part of his effort to remake himself, from an impossibly restless youth to one more or less settled in a paradoxical commitment to remaining creatively unsettled. Rob Spillman on remaking himself amid the rubble of the past in 'All Tomorrow's Parties' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

It seems an unlikely sing-along line, though it’s more or less presented as such. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z

But, at least as far as the television awards went, they more or less got it right. Golden Globes 2018: Why The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies had to win 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

If you read Jane Austen more or less annually, as I have done since my late teens, you end up marking yourself against the characters. The literary (anti)heroes of middle age 2010-09-01T09:33:00Z

All that they are strictly required to do is recite memorized lines in more or less the same order. Theater Review: ‘Habit’ at the Essex Street Market, Building B 2012-09-23T21:21:05Z

You may wonder, for instance, why they both have names that are more or less synonyms for death. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z

While it was painful at first, we have wound up more or less friends again, and share a social circle. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When ‘forever’ didn’t work out the first time 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

“They more or less told me it was my fault for losing the laptop,” he says. How to get an airline to compensate you — even when it doesn’t have to 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

But, over all, the Independent participants are on more or less equal footing. Art Review | Independent: An Abundance of Room, an Absence of V.I.P. Gloss 2010-03-04T23:16:00Z

Yeoh has been active in action cinema more or less consistently over the years, with her recurring role in "Star Trek: Discovery" serving to remind us of how great she is at playing a heavy. Netflix's "Gunpowder Milkshake" is another dumb fun lark about women who kill 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

“He was producing more or less one painting a day,” said Mr. Masson, who has been working with the Gorky estate since 1985. Art That Was Hiding in Plain Sight 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

This is his story, more or less, the filmmakers say. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Related: Extract: Room by Emma Donoghue One of the many unusual things about how Room was made was that it was filmed more or less in sequence. Emma Donoghue on how she wrote the screenplay for Room 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

I have learned that over the years, all YouTubers have to deal with an algorithm that more or less manipulates — for example, they can’t have a break because they wouldn’t be favorited by the algorithm. YouTubers at the mercy of the algorithm: “The idea is to post content, not have an interesting... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Though most of the movie is more or less inert, its gender-spark is vital. Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Nostalgia Trip 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Their reactions were more or less identical: “Huh. Weird. Sounds a little boring. I’m downloading it right now.” The Surprising Reasons Men Love Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Too 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s more or less for humor,” he said. Karaoke Singers Live the Dream at the Illinois State Fair 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

What follows more or less tracks the plot of “Rocky IV.” ‘Creed II’ Review: A Poignant Boxing Movie Blends Old and New 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

His images appear to memorialize some more or less distant past when manliness was an unquestionable virtue. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z

Do you understand what happened at Columbine more or less, having gotten to know them? Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z

Since A New Hope, the saga has since spanned two original sequels, three prequels, a full “sequel trilogy” and two “anthology” films, or stand-alone films within more or less the same timeline. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: final trailer for ninth film is released 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The show is no better or worse – no more or less corrupt – than the casting couches of yore. The X Factor isn't 100% authentic? Hold the front page! 2010-08-23T15:27:00Z

Maybe that’s because he, like the two “Idol” winners before him, David Cook and Kris Allen, more or less flopped. Critic's Notebook: The ?Idol? Season: Sharper, With More Stars 2011-05-26T16:53:31Z

Jack having been there before, and Jack attempting more or less the same murder as a previous caretaker, is a sign that history will keep on repeating itself. The Shining at 40: will we ever fully understand what it all means? 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

That spirit-to-electricity conversion is possible is confirmed, more or less, on TLC’s new entry in the paranormal genre, “Angels Among Us,” which also starts on Sunday night, right after “Long Island Medium.” Theories From ‘Ghost Asylum’ and ‘Angels Among Us’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Red Vienna had disappeared, more or less,” Mr. Suschitzky later recalled, referring to the period after World War I when the Social Democrats controlled the city. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

The rise of the superhero movie as a tentpole genre staple and studio cash cow more or less overlapped with the war on terror. Iron Man 2: the first superhero film of the Obama era? 2010-04-28T13:33:00Z

Nadia Boulanger, a famous composition teacher in France, told him, "Quincy, your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being." Quincy Jones book schools next generation 2010-11-19T23:51:00Z

Milch himself slowly started dimming the lights along the way before more or less tossing graveyard dirt on the project in 2012. “Deadwood” fans, rejoice: the movie is alive at HBO!…But so is “Confederate” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The ratings for Mr. Wallenda’s walk across the gorge were more or less equal to the ratings on the night last year when he walked across Niagara Falls. High-Wire Canyon Walk Drew 13 Million Viewers 2013-06-24T22:02:59Z

That much you surmise more or less from the beginning. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

But when a state of semi-war becomes more or less permanent, the erosion of basic legal and democratic principles becomes a greater danger. The space between 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fisher says she rejected singing more or less to spite her mother. Review: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, at Home in ‘Bright Lights’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

They arrive on stage with a sackful of silly short gags, which they then more or less recite. Comedy Gold: Milton Jones's Lion Whisperer 2013-01-24T15:10:33Z

Mr. Bradshaw’s script also uses passages of human lamentation and divine utterance taken more or less directly from the Old Testament, some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Theater Review: ‘Job,’ at the Flea Theater 2012-09-20T02:00:00Z

“I’m a white woman of privilege. Just because I have a degree in art history doesn’t mean my feelings matter more or less than those of our wonderful security officers.” Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, things looked more or less like any other runway show, rather than a reality spectacle. On the Runway Blog: Rachel Zoe and Reality 2012-09-12T21:04:27Z

Most studies address two central questions: do our hands come away more or less germy after using a dryer as opposed to a paper towel? Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Put the rice on the stove not long after you salt the eggplant, and they should be done at more or less the same time; once the eggplant is ready to cook, everything moves quickly. One-Pot Deluxe 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

On songs like this opener, he revisits the kind of hard-luck stories he wrote about through his entire career, with his balance of bitterness and hope more or less intact. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Shot live, more or less continuously and typically in front of an invited audience, multicams emerged in the early 1950s and dominated network schedules for decades. In a New AMC Satire, a Sitcom Wife Gets the Last Laugh 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

On one level it’s the kind of old-fashioned madcap burlesque in which the point is to whip up an atmosphere of liberating mayhem more or less for its own sake. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

They meet again, and more or less do the same things, but differences both large and small completely transform their night. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ and ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another forty-something years to live, more or less, so it could happen. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z

The overall effect of these and many other more or less urgently topical, invariably well-made images is ultimately numbing. Art Review: The Fully Engaged Lens 2011-05-12T21:57:40Z

Here, too, the more or less hellish world of the near future is mostly the backdrop for the existential questions of its human tenants. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Is it set, more or less, in the landscape of your own childhood? This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

But it plays out more or less the same as it would if she existed only in Don Draper’s head. How I Met My Mother: Don Draper's Oedipal Farewell Tour 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Asked whether he thought lethal injection was more or less violent than other forms of execution, Mr. Jackson dismissed the question: “Executions, by their very nature, are acts of violence.” Review: ‘Design and Violence,’ Online at MoMA 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

And then boom, we’re in yet another movie, though this time it’s the one Lee more or less sticks with. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

That is more or less the proper response and amount of attention one is obligated to invest in the plot. Beyond flashy big names, "The Politician" showcases how voters are bamboozled, swayed, and disgusted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a conflation of one issue that people agree, more or less universally, is harmful, and another which much more complicated. Campaign Against Sex Trafficking Launches on Tinder 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Morgan’s chronological charts for the screen — scripts that portray past and present, more or less side by side — have made her the flavor of the day in high-middle-brow entertainment here. Critic?s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn?t Dead, It?s Onstage 2012-02-03T23:49:33Z

By the end of our trip we could, more or less, catch our own waves. Exploring the Surf in Sri Lanka 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

And if you haven't heard of either of them, that is more or less my point. Something puzzling in the state of Denmark 2012-12-21T22:55:08Z

Yes, this is, more or less, list of what I thought were the 10 best shows of the year. The Top 10 TV Shows of 2014: The Best and the Rest 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

I once even was jonesing so bad I published a book which turned out to be more or less a complete fabrication. Ninety Days by Bill Clegg; Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis; The Fix by Damian Thompson – review 2012-07-07T23:05:03Z

His Friday statement is, more or less, the same argument spiced up with a bit of old-school racism. Donald Trump is not an LGBT-friendly candidate: His presidency would be a disaster for human rights 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Her inability to smell a small kitchen fire alerts her to a health problem that only grows worse, stripping her of her independence though leaving her bossiness more or less intact. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

It is widely believed that Gray more or less stopped working soon afterward, and she died in 1976 in relative obscurity. A lush new volume tracks the life and career of designer Eileen Gray 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

He arrived there on a Fulbright scholarship at 30, and more or less stayed for almost 70 more years. His Roman Holiday Lasted a Lifetime 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

“The Equalizer,” which was directed by Mr. Washington’s frequent collaborator Antoine Fuqua, more or less matched the opening weekend returns of its highly successful predecessor when adjusted for inflation, and received a top-notch A CinemaScore. Denzel Washington and ABBA Thrive at the Box Office 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Gospel, for example, was more or less invented by Rev Thomas A Dorsey. Genre busting: the origin of music categories 2011-08-25T21:04:01Z

Forster began drafting his "Indian novel" at more or less the same time as he was writing Maurice, though he would not complete it for another 10 years. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

He has been working this way more or less since the 1960s, reshaping jazz’s rhythmic syntax while engaging with its lineage. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Tamora’s seething anger over the killing of her sons by Titus will lead to a cycle of vengeful bloodletting that more or less consumes the rest of the play. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

Like many celebrity autobiographies, "Anger Is an Energy" is less a book than it is a rant, arranged more or less chronologically. John Lydon recalls life as a punk (and beyond) in 'Anger Is an Energy' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Not long after Sagawa’s death, drastic changes came to Japanese culture that more or less assured she would be all but forgotten. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Here are four, more or less in order of my preference, though they are all very close. Choice Tables: In London, Great Indian Food Without the Fuss 2012-02-10T18:08:46Z

It is the great summer blockbuster ancestor – the film that in 1975 more or less invented the concept of the event movie. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

It is, more or less, to seize the moment: “It’s my life, your life/Live it once, can’t live it twice/So nice.” The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

It was obviously monsoon fed, so now it was more or less a sand flat, at the centre a stream, ankle deep, easy to wade across. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

So when the crowd spoke up, it did so more or less by invitation, as when she performed Bessie Smith’s dirty blues “You’ve Got to Give Me Some,” with double meanings about butchers and milkmen. Music Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kenny Garrett at Jazz Festival 2013-08-25T21:22:08Z

His list is organized by artist and by region, in more or less chronological order. ‘Rap Tees’ Catalogs Two Decades of Hip-Hop Merchandising 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

At that temperature, baking times should proceed more or less as follows: The no-pot, no-water way to make hard-boiled eggs 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

Are Artie Bucco's attempts to stay on the straight and narrow among his mobster buddies any more or less sympathetic than Poot being one of the rare hoppers who manages to escape the game? The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

In Mr. Buford’s world, though, departure dates, deadlines and other end points in time are more or less hypothetical. Zooming In on Bill Buford’s Latest Obsession 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Even violence is casually wrist-flicked away, presented as no more or less of an issue than it is in movies. 'Video Games: The Movie,' Produced by Zach Braff 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, most white wines were probably made in more or less this fashion until the second half of the 20th century. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Cutler, who’s a size 14, and recently became the first plus-size Victoria’s Secret model, subsequently attempted to apologize, more or less. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

In between these static scenes, we are treated to bursts of video imagery: Ames’s memories, more or less, projected on a screen at the back of his office set. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z

You might argue Frank’s shock is realistic, but given that the movie is about an assassin kidnapped by an evil scientist, verisimilitude more or less goes out the window. Don’t take “The Assignment”: Michelle Rodriguez plays a transgender assassin in the year’s worst movie so far 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Facebook and the cannabis industry have more or less reached a detente where companies can post but not advertise. Cannabis cleanse? Why big tech is giving pot businesses the boot 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

That’s more or less how Godard’s films, and “The Image Book” in particular, demand to be seen. “The Image Book,” Reviewed: Jean-Luc Godard Confronts Cinema’s Depiction of the Arab World 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Unlike the main story, that meta-narrative has a more or less happy ending. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

The first act is more or less traditional, though with a glowing frame around the action as a subtle reminder of theatrical artifice. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Welcome to the world of tiny housers, people whose choice of living space more or less forces them to embrace the simple life. Living large in 150 square feet: Why the tiny house movement is taking off 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Marilyn Monroe, doing more or less nothing while an elaborate headdress is being pinned in place and her makeup is being touched up, exudes a blithe lightness that radiates big, unholy knowledge. Classic Hollywood Photos That Reveal Who Movie Stars Are 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

But she more or less obliterates the need for the term. Review: The Cellist Okkyung Lee Tests Extended Technique’s Boundaries 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Francis was widely considered a saint in his own lifetime He was canonized just two years after his death, in 1226, and has been venerated more or less continuously ever since. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In my first session, Mr. Drogoszewski actually began with, more or less, a nap as a warm-up. How to Recover Like an Elite Athlete 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

That is, to accept the twist, you more or less have to be happy with the first part of the season being all but a dream. Oh, No, They Didn’t! The Problem With Homeland’s Addiction to Twists 2013-10-22T13:26:06Z

It's a lawless, Darwinian free-for-all, more or less – and Burnham and all of her previously state-of-the-art technology are viewed as obsolete. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 3 boldly goes where canon never dared to imagine life after disaster 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Some Christians lived more or less contentedly under Ottoman control, and some Christian leaders held local sway in the sultan’s name. Coasts and coalitions 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

We can tell that she's stubborn, volatile and complicated but we are more or less told that through Oppenheimer's perspective of her as his love interest. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

You recognize, more or less, how they’re achieving the effects they achieve. Review: You See ‘The Encounter’ With Your Ears 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Though every element connects thematically, more or less, the production feels overpadded with plot. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z

Don't worry: you are going to be your father, more or less. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Her head began to swim. She had lately come to see that clothing might be something beyond a more or less fashionable covering.” A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

This “Abduction” is part of a shift toward using opera — still assumed in America to be more or less politically inert — to reflect on cross-cultural tensions and liaisons. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It is a job he more or less stumbled into. Up Close: Providing Costumes for Military Trials 2010-06-23T22:33:00Z

The event is being staged to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, the man credited with more or less inventing the concept of the computer. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

And it’s not unfair to call it liberal, in the small-l sense, which Dr. Seuss more or less was. Lou Dobbs Vs. Kids? Movies: Does Children?s Morality Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias? 2012-02-27T17:09:10Z

Ms. Morgan’s chronological charts for the screen – scripts that portray past and present more or less side by side – have made her the flavor of the moment in high-middle-brow entertainment here. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z

Before it makes good on its title, this shocker rockets survivalists on an ark to colonize another planet, which is more or less what Elon Musk has talked about with Space X. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

That’s more or less how I remembered “Election” until I watched it again recently, and 20 years of accumulated criticism suggests that I’m not alone. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The performers, 12 Chinese acrobats and martial artists, display more or less familiar circus skills — contortion, gymnastics, hula-hooping — as well as kung fu abilities. Review: Chen Shi-Zheng’s ‘Double It,’ Feats of Derring-Do, With Vignettes 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s now filled with 20 chairs, more or less, a mattress and not much else. The Home Designers Who Actually Move In 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

I listen to Bill Monroe a lot, but I more or less stick to what I can do best. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

We had always more or less trusted our government to protect us from foreign threats. Obama’s Parting Gift: The Power Not to Fear White Racism 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Does attaching a famous name to a science documentary make it any more or less interesting than a generic “Nova” episode? Review: ‘Breakthough,’ About Scientific Advances That Could Save Lives and Perhaps the Planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

He and Laxton, the cinematographer, more or less improvised the technique. Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. McBride’s first year in charge of booking the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island was more or less an unqualified success. The Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

You don’t have to be an expert sign stealer to know exactly what will happen and more or less when. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z

It’s about, more or less, the worry that one will have lived a worthy life “when I have to meet my day.” How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Despite releasing records more or less steadily over the years, Ms. Bush has never performed a concert in the United States. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z

What is it like dealing with an actor who is more or less playing him? Some of Adam Rapp?s Life, in ?The Metal Children? 2010-05-17T22:02:00Z

Prosecutors and his defense agreed on sentencing guidelines of 46 to 57 months in prison, but Gentile could face more or less prison time based on a report by probation officials. Reputed mobster thought linked to art heist guilty 2012-11-14T18:34:15Z

Up even further in more or less coordinated tenths. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

Back in Lebanon, more or less ignored by his father, he’s so savagely beaten by bigger boys at a Catholic orphanage that his battered body must be sent to Sweden. Loss haunts the gay Arab San Franciscan at the heart of Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Barry’s magical skills as cartoonist, writer and storyteller are at their richest in the many more or less autobiographical tales told by a goofy, smart, economically underprivileged young girl named Marlys. Lynda Barry: ‘Everything: Part I’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This is partly due to how the press release frames the study, which is basically as more or less feel-good propaganda for increased binge-watching. Normalizing the binge: We’ve decided gorging on TV is harmless—with Netflix’s help 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

But Miles and Jesse are present, too, more or less the age at which their lives stood still. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It is very restful; I start to feel light-headed – the deep breathing means you take in more oxygen – and by the end, when he covers me with a blanket, I am more or less comatose. My first adventure in yoga: less cobra, more corpse 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

They left "Not I" more or less as it was and focused on the other two. Irish actress Lisa Dwan to perform Beckett's dark, tortured 'Not I' for last time at the Broad Stage 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

That, more or less, is the premise of “Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience,” opening on Saturday and running through Oct. Trekkies, Set Phasers to Fun for a Trip to Starfleet Academy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

When we die our heads will still be filled with a few stupid certitudes mixed in with some more or less good ideas, and we are never going to know which are which. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z

The mercurial comedy of Wilder’s flamboyantly aphoristic script shows them to be more or less clueless—except for one thing. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

For today’s socially conscious British filmmakers, northern England is more or less what southern Italy was to the postwar neorealists: a landscape of social misery, both picturesque and harsh. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z

In Public Assembly’s back room, they played to an audience of about 40, more or less equally divided between women and men, many of them taking pictures almost constantly. Music Review: Duchess Says, Canadian Band, at Public Assembly 2012-08-26T21:11:40Z

Four of them flitter more or less in place, while one features computer-controlled illumination that draws more dynamic patterns. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

But over the course of the novel, the details of Ferguson’s more or less ordinary existence are cataloged in exhaustive detail. For a doorstopper, Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' is surprisingly light 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Every generation, from toddler to the elderly, dresses more or less alike. Aging in place: Many of us feel way older than we did just weeks ago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Re: Scoffing: She and her ex "have wound up more or less friends again," but the letter suggests "less" is winning out. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When ‘forever’ didn’t work out the first time 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

It was more or less the vibe, my everyday life. Wiz Khalifa Talks of ‘Blacc Hollywood’ and Other Projects 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Given he had more or less abandoned me, I saw no reason to reply at once. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

Ellstin Limehouse, who will have a significant role in the final season, emerged more or less as advertised: the boss of an insular African-American community who dabbles in protection, underworld banking and world-class barbecue. R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

To the waitress, our table was more or less like all the others, except more of a mess. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

To produce these results, we calculated which majors a person with a given degree was more or less likely than average to marry. How Your College Major Predicts Who You Will Marry 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Those issues are more or less settled in Deutschland, he says. How the presidential campaign looks through the eyes of a foreign journalist 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

"I am more or less done," she said as she laughed. HK star Lau channels China earnings to local films 2011-03-01T09:31:04Z

I remember a performance of the piece with Joshua Bell, at Tanglewood some years ago, in which the concerto’s first two movements were treated more or less as a prelude for the rip-roaring finale. Salonen Was Born to Conduct Sibelius 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

“To me,” Peirce says, “it was nothing more or less than a synonym for ‘nerd’ or ‘dweeb.’ ‘Dork Diaries’: The book empire built one awkward moment at a time 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

It was the end of innocence, the end of a particular world order and the end, more or less, of the time when “classical music,” as many people think of it, was written. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Rhidian Brook's family history handed him The Aftermath more or less on a plate. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-06-03T07:30:01Z

"Obviously one song more or less at a rock show doesn't mean anything, but the motivation for the action – fear – should be instructively cautionary when applied to a bigger picture." Steven van Zandt apologises for Hyde Park comments 2012-07-23T09:22:37Z

The sentence in question currently reads as "The Spierigs more or less untangle the proceedings enough so that you grasp how the Unmarried Woman became a he and — over time — the pivot and whatzit." ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Nearly everything is more or less stylish, elegant and sensuously attractive. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Guillemets, those double arrows, encase speech; parentheses enclose stage directions, more or less. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The idea is that there are a limited number of tricks, and every one of a certain stature in the field knows them, more or less. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

But the two men learned that by more or less locking themselves in a room for a week and forcing themselves to write, they could at least come up with a viable script. David Wain Tests Mainstream Credentials With ?Wanderlust? 2012-02-18T02:53:02Z

So I wanted to retell the story but set in more or less modern times and with a female protagonist. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Finally, I caved, calling a friend in Toronto and telling her everything that had happened on each day of my trip, more or less in order. 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

The most recent versions follow, more or less beat by beat, the timing of the originals. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z

The restaurant gig — an extended sight gag, more or less — isn’t very convincing, and not only because Oh is awfully slow at folding mandu. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Now, science tells us that our reveries are more or less meaningless — a kitchen junk drawer, the brain’s information-dump at the end of the day. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The plot was ridiculous, but it did more or less what I wanted: flicked at natural fears of flying and of dying. Perspective | Inside the horror website that’s freaking out millions of people 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

National culture is holding up well, more or less, in France, not at all in Italy and in Spain. The ‘Submission’ of Michel Houellebecq: Interview Excerpts 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Nearly all Lew Archer’s cases — “The Zebra-Striped Hearse ,” “The Chill ” and a half dozen others — deal, more or less, with the sins of an earlier generation wreaking havoc in the present. ‘It’s All One Case’ is a revealing look at detective master Ross Macdonald 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

By the time the full story of his breakdown arrives, it, and his journey at large, are more or less a matter of indifference to the reader. Review: ‘Normal’ Looks Into the Abyss and Finds the Future 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

At more or less the one-hour mark, right after the mad-as-hell speech and 60 minutes of very sure-footed satire, it loses all steam and caves in on itself. Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Here he is more or less God, who for theatrical purposes is less interesting than Mr. Kitson himself. | 'It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later': ?It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z

A half-built, vaguely Mediterranean spec house, the residence lacked a coherent layout as well as a consistent architectural style, and it more or less turned its back on the dramatic hilltop views. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z

And so, this season, they find themselves more or less back to square one. “Arrested Development” Is Back Where It Started 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

While the designated sot stumbles through said tale, an assortment of familiar actors in period garb re-enact the story as described more or less exactly, flubs and all. Lin-Manuel Miranda gets toasty on “Drunk History”: ‘Here comes sick-ass Hamilton on a flaming ship!’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

They all read as more or less black, particularly when viewed in groups. Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Venus in Fur” took place in a single setting and more or less in real time. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z

Most simply look like kids standing on the sidewalk, more or less awkward, more or less vulnerable. A Modeling Rite of Passage, Unmasked 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

“That’s a curious accent. The Virginia accent. A lot of Virginians sound more or less like Canadians to me. You sound like you are from around here.” Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Which, Bowie, added, “was more or less right.” Donna Summer dead at 63; more than just a disco diva 2012-05-17T19:44:00Z

“Well, there are no rules,” he said, before delivering one of those arms-outstretched pantomimes that more or less said, “Are you insane?” Restaurant Bars at Daniel, Tocqueville and Riverpark 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The act uses a code that allows the performers to guess, more or less accurately, the answers to audience questions. ‘Nightmare Alley’ Review: Seeing Is Believing. (Suckers!) 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, that’s more or less the only story about Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the other women in “Feud” that Murphy tells. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

"My husband and I more or less refer to it as `Let's-go-lose-the-lottery-and-have-dinner,'" he joked. 'Book of Mormon' fans gather in NY for free show 2012-06-05T21:05:03Z

That sensibility more or less aligned with the mood of Clinton, whose efforts had the patient pertinacity of someone trying to make a case for something reasonable at the D.M.V. The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

The work starts off with a cluster of dancers moving more or less as one as they sink and rise from the floor, maintaining, to different degrees, a sense of touch. Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

We enter the realm of the inconceivable and suddenly the idea of a million souls, more or less, is met with something of a shrug. Art and the genocide memorial: How to make people engage with the horror, not look away 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Dr. Lonnie Smith plays the Hammond organ and works more or less within the style and sound of East Coast and Rust Belt organ jazz from the 1960s and ’70s. Review: With ‘Evolution,’ Dr. Lonnie Smith Channels an Old Wisdom 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The glass will be sealed with cling wrap and, because the practice is more or less illegal, tucked into a paper bag or go-box. An Encyclopedic New Guide to Cocktails Stirred, Shaken, Rolled, Tossed, Swizzled, Muddled... 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Here, there’s no more or less than meets the eye. Movie Review | 'The Thorn in the Heart': Michel Gondry Tells the Story of an Aunt and Cousin 2010-04-01T22:35:00Z

In “Oh Sit!” pushing and running are more or less mandatory, as a group of grown-up contestants accumulates cash values while navigating a “Wipeout”-style obstacle course. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Oh Sit!’ on CW, and ‘Toy Hunter’ on Travel Channel 2012-08-14T21:42:20Z

"I think people look at it more or less with the same pride as Germans look at Beethoven's Ninth Symphony," he said. Two "Rites", no riot, expected for Stravinsky centenary 2013-05-29T11:54:22Z

The transportation hub outside Seoul suggested “international flair,” he says, which is more or less what the chef’s cooking is about. Review | A great new Korean restaurant sets itself apart from the pack 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

That Donleavy’s 62-year-old son, Philip, is here “more or less full time” contributes a faint Grey Gardens shading to domestic life — as does the fact that the mansion is falling apart. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z

Anyway, it all more or less works out. Spelling bees make trolls of us all 2013-06-01T15:00:00Z

The parable of an ambitious entrepreneur who lets his ingenuity curdle into unchecked greed is more or less intact, and his corruption is conveyed in a few memorable, semi-inspired visual flights. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z

He separated from his wife, remained in Africa more or less permanently beginning in 1988, was granted citizenship in 2005, married at least two local women and adopted two sons. Louis Sarno Dies at 62; Moved to Africa to Preserve Ancestral Music 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Their lives are already in service to the humans who have more or less highjacked their existence and we are responsible for their well-being. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Are kids from more religious families more or less altruistic than their peers from less-religious families? Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

His piece concentrated on just drums, vibraphone and marimba, played more or less discretely, though that left the group's regular percussionists with plenty to do on their own account. LA Philharmonic New Music Group/Dudamel/Adams – review 2013-03-15T17:33:23Z

As long as you basically know what is going on and what is more or less being said, you can be swept away by a great opera, not just by music, but by visceral drama. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

Each of the show’s three parts is more or less self-contained, giving a general picture of the party’s brief history while centering on events specific to each venue. When the Young Lords Strove to Change New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

This speech feels private, even erotic, but beyond the curtain, you can hear other actors reciting the same words in more or less the same tones. Review: ‘I’m Bleeding All Over the Place’ Explores a Psyche (Don’t Get Hurt) 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

I more or less got involved in helping them navigate the world of funk because of my background. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

After that, Whitney says, the subject was “more or less dropped.” Analysis | The new Bachelor is a virgin. But this season will be more sex-obsessed than ever before. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Both the provocation and the published responses to it — more or less evenly split between shock and exhilaration — had a somewhat ritualized quality. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z

Morlot more or less encouraged that by prizing luminosity over illumination. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Tying it to a leather thong, he put it around his neck, where it has hung, more or less, ever since. Possessed: Ugo Rondinone Embraces His Family’s Hard Past 2013-05-03T23:13:24Z

But with the SAG ceremony, those performances are more or less isolated from the movies they came from; more even than usual, the actors themselves get center stage. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Rent’ and the SAG Awards 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Between a third and a half of Mongolia’s population is still nomadic, living more or less the way their ancestors did, down to the prescribed arrangement of vermilion lacquered furniture inside their gers. Journeys: As Mongolia Changes, the Past Is Still Present 2012-07-13T17:33:38Z

The new record will apparently continue the musical precedent set by Congratulations, which was more or less a commercial flop. MGMT's third album is not for everyone, say band 2013-01-30T16:39:20Z

That was more or less the evening’s tone — the inevitability of an event that still meaningfully impacts our popular culture and still has many of its deepest, perhaps permanent, flaws. Chris Rock delivered the medicine to a so-white Oscars, but was it strong enough? 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

“We’ve basically gone back to the original Broadway version and more or less have followed the structure of that show, adding back songs that no other film production ever used.” NBC hopes the sun will come out as it mounts ‘Annie Live!’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

In the first scene, for example, the prologue is delivered more or less intact, minus a “doth” here and there. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

The arias, if you set the words aside, are more or less interchangeable: pristinely soaring. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Harvey more or less takes over Stravinsky's scoring, but grafts on to it the equivalent of a baroque continuo group of struck and plucked instruments. Messages ? review 2011-04-03T20:45:01Z

The old complaint that Emmy voters don’t watch television hasn’t applied for quite some time — especially since the industry made a point of making series entertainment more or less unavoidable. "Game of Thrones," "Mrs. Maisel" rule the Emmy nominations — at the cost of "Better" Things 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Women have 17% of the influence, more or less, in every part of the decision-making process in the industry and, inevitably, that’s going to decide what kind of films are made. 'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

Bower is more or less run by Messiah Church, whose credo dictates that women “are created to serve, to be pure, to submit, to be a delight to their husbands.” Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Those guys generally make considerably less per hour sitting on the throne, but they more or less make up for it by sheer volume of hours,” says Arnold. Santa Claus is coming to town. Try not to infect him. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

The trouble is that in her own time it was already her fate to be defined more or less exclusively in painterly terms. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z

Her previous albums were lo-fi and more or less meditative, though each one moved closer to the dance floor. Grimes, a D.I.Y. Indie Sensation, Ramps Up Her Sound 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Since some things never change in these books, Quirke is first found in a bar at midday, more or less in his natural element. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z

“It’s more or less just the two of them in the whole film.” says Tyldum. The Imitation Game Director Talks Making His Next Film With Chris Pratt and (Maybe) Jennifer Lawrence 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

"The natural, original distemper of man is presumption," I more or less heard him say. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

So much so that the final show is more or less fully scored. ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Each of our nine heroes is a more or less stereotyped ethnicity – fat silly Chinese, angry Native American called Geronimo. 009 Re: Cyborg – review 2013-06-06T20:29:01Z

This could lead to some people eating more or less food than they need. Why food labels showing the exercise needed to burn off calories won’t work for everyone 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

But are women, in general, more or less likely to evince particular characteristics? After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z

That, more or less, is what Bowie means to the movies. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Is this more or less valid than seeing it on the runway? Gucci’s 600 Years of Inspiration 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The novel is so evocative of Southern California in the 1970s, a world that is now more or less gone. Lisa Glatt talks catharsis, nudism and her new novel, 'The Nakeds' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

My grandmother more or less lived on bananas for the last 30 years of her life. Getting fit in middle age: a marathon addict, a couch potato and others share their pain 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

And while in his earlier work the color was always applied more or less evenly, now he was spreading ropes of Day-Glo spray paint in graffiti-tag scribbles. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Anyway, between Elliot's frustrations with his house band and a few accounting concerns, Holland more or less grimaces his way through the Paris that tourists don't frequent. Le sigh! Netflix's Damien Chazelle drama "The Eddy" mixes jazz with misery 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

No, the company has not revived the redemptive ending that reigned for much of the late 17th and early 18th century, in which Lear and Cordelia lived, more or less happily ever after. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z

Russell Elevado, a recording engineer with an artisan’s fondness for vintage equipment, tipped D’Angelo off to the fact that Electric Lady was still operational, available and more or less untouched since its heyday. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

As Woolfe observed, it was a discouraging answer; it suggested an artist who believes the repertory to be more or less fine as it is. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The step most famously associated with “Swan Lake,” the ballerina’s multiple fouetté turns, does occur, and more or less to the right music, though as a depiction of rage and frustration. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z

These ads are presented as acts of charity, more or less, but they come with consequences. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z

Opera more or less instantly fulfils the wishes of those who crave pleasure, and within half an hour a licentious soprano has taken care of his sexual education. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z

That’s more or less how it’s been since I was 18. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

The fact that Trump more or less made his A$AP Rocky intervention on behalf of African Americans as a whole? Perspective | Trump’s ‘help’ in A$AP Rocky’s case is no different from his racist rants on ‘the Squad,’ Elijah Cummings and Baltimore 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Some of these relate more or less directly to the appearances of the rain forest: tree trunks, roots, rocks, cascades and rapids — all “abstractly embodied,” as the artists put it. Euphoric work at Suyama Space ‘Drawn from the Olympics’ 2013-12-05T20:44:26Z

Even the bit, 31 minutes in, where he more or less tells us whodunallofit and why. Agatha Christie's Poirot: time to bid adieu 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z

The episode title, “The Green Council,” signaled that we would be getting the Hightower show this week, and that was more or less how it turned out. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: A Convenient Mistake 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

There are several wrinkles in the script, one of which is that restaurant patrons more or less expect that any self-respecting kitchen these days is going to offer “fresh and seasonal.” Founding Farmers review: Zero stars for the mega-popular D.C. eatery 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The New Décor picks up more or less where the Surreal House breaks off. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z

They all, therefore, belong to the second half of Hoddinott's composing career when his style was more or less settled. Hoddinott: Landscapes; The Silver Hound; Towy Landscape, etc ? review 2012-05-17T21:21:01Z

“We live now in countries where anyway people are more or less accepted,” she said. Charlotte Rampling Says Oscars Boycott Is ‘Racist Against Whites’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The year she took her grandfather’s 1898 Martin guitar and left home for Los Angeles, soon to be opening for Odetta at the Troubador, I was more or less being born. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z

The content was down to the nine individuals, with the artists acting more or less as consultants. How political theatre changed its tune 2012-06-06T14:53:19Z

To decide whether “baby name expert SJ Ljungstrom” is more or less vital to our national discourse than “body language expert Judi James” feels like forcing us to choose between air or water. Meghan has given birth to a raft of royal experts 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

In fact, it more or less had been. Smashed Up, Courrèges Starts Again (Again) 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Soon to become infamous among certain ambitious Americans as an exercise of tyranny, the line ran more or less along the crest of the Appalachians, dividing the Ohio and Atlantic watersheds. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Since it’s oh so tough, after umpteen years, to tell what’s fact and what’s fiction, my memory of this story is more or less how it happened. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The songs are all about the same thing, more or less, which is not the same thing at all. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Burkhard Fritz is the tenor, efficient and more or less on top of the formidable challenges Mahler sets him, but too often sounding under a pressure that drains most of the character from his singing. Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – review 2013-05-22T14:33:11Z

But when I face the camera the words are mine, more or less spontaneous; they have been carefully considered but never learned by heart. Mary Beard: So much for TV dumbing down 2013-07-13T08:01:02Z

I prefer the animals when they are used more or less as is, when their natural comedic flair is at its most natural, and their taupe-colored hides often blend with their surroundings. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z

The way in which the licence fee, nothing more or less than a poll tax, is divvied up between channels demands urgent overhaul. Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z

He wasn’t the only stunted genius of the studio system; more or less, the entire system depended upon its limits. Busby Berkeley’s Personalized Beauty 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Is “wild-eyed, extravagant” poet Stephen Roentgen, who hangs out at the White Horse Tavern, more or less Dylan Thomas? Is that Harold Bloom? Susan Sontag? ‘Muse’ brims with literary barbs. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The truth is, I was, and remain, a more or less lazy person. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

You know what an A means, more or less. Even Justin Bieber has a dark side 2012-05-29T15:35:00Z

My listlessness ended after I pulled Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography Speak, Memory from my bookshelf, more or less at random. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

The jumps, I am more or less convinced, are there to keep you counting your steps, which distracts you from how hard and existentially pointless it is to run on the spot. Fit in my 40s: Canada's Air Force fitness drills are a retro, noisy tonic 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

These indirect expressions — “lost,” “late,” “passed” — all imply that the beloved person is more or less waiting in another room. Perspective | Ask Amy: Son’s delirium causes unexpected hurt 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Though their positions and others are somewhat changed in the household structure, the characters who shape Downton’s upstairs-downstairs dynamic are more or less the same as they ever were. "Downton Abbey" is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Though the menu at Gato is more or less ready to roll, the duo wanted one more gullet-stuffing pass through Paris, Rome and Barcelona as a way to get fired up about their debut. Bobby Flay’s Next Course 2014-01-14T20:18:49Z

Apple, the Beatles failed business venture, “is more or less just a company that employs lawyers.” Review | Getting to know George Harrison through his own words 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

When revealed, the whatever-it-was wasn't so terrifying - and the same creature, more or less, turned up the following year on an ice planet in Star Trek. Where's the thrill in today's cookie-cutter monster movies? 2011-08-16T16:58:08Z

In the opening movement, the wild beating of the drum goes on for a quarter-hour, gradually immersed in electronic sounds, more or less like sound waves of various kinds passed through water. CD reviews: Noseda makes case for neglected Italian master 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Thoreau sets “Walden’s” self-reliant tone in the original more or less immediately with his epigraph — a quote from his own book. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Pop moves and mutates, but Adele more or less does not. Review: Adele Holds Firm on ‘25,’ Even as Pop Shifts 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

This means that Mr. Lithgow’s Lear more or less goes mad in a vacuum. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

All three songs were written by Jimmy Webb and contained contributions from Campbell’s old Wrecking Crew pals, and all three made more or less simultaneous débuts on the national pop, country, and adult-contemporary charts. Glen Campbell: The First Good Ol' Boy of American Pop 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

You might have one primary, but everyone you choose to be with is more or less equal in your affections. 'What were her knickers like?': the truth about trying an open relationship 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

While Plutarch admires, more or less, Pompey’s martial prowess, Caesar’s single-mindedness and Brutus’s patriotism, he shows clear contempt for Mark Antony. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Roth’s library, some 4,000 volumes, is now stored mostly at his house in northwest Connecticut, where it has more or less taken over the premises. A Scene Right Out of Philip Roth: His Books Come Home to Newark’s Library 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ruin hath taught us thus to ruminate, as Shakespeare more or less said. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z

As a regular panellist on Mock the Week, he more or less single-handedly made the programme worth watching. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z

He structured the composition with seven more or less vertical arcs of brown-to-black, which encourages you to read it horizontally, like a narrative panorama. Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

It is up to you whether you find Patrick more or less hilarious than Princess Diana’s former spiritual healer, Simone Simmons, whose psychic odyssey has taken her frequently to the newspapers. For hire: the former royal hangers-on who are hounding Meghan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

My hands and feet moved in proximity to the machine, more or less as the organist’s did. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The film is more or less an issue of People brought to life for an excruciating 124 minutes. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

I wonder if being involved in the nuts and bolts of politics has left him more or less optimistic? Peter Gabriel on 30 years of Womad – and mixing music with politics 2012-07-26T19:00:01Z

The Hammersteins, friends of his parents, had more or less adopted him, and that night at the theatre he was utterly transported. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z

Her son said, “Every family in Bronte has some pistachio trees,” adding that the Romans first brought pistachios to Sicily from the Middle East, but then they were more or less forgotten. Sicily’s Emerald Green Gem: the Bronte Pistachio 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Social hierarchies appear to have been more or less leveled. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z

But they may well suspect, with a shudder, that what they’re seeing onstage is more or less what their high-school-age sons and daughters see when they look upon their doting parents. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

After five or six hours of more or less nonstop success, his clients asked to head back to shore early. Chasing Redfish Off the South Texas Gulf Coast 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

That is more or less accurate, as far as it goes, though it clearly falls short as a practical description. ?The Music Box? in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown 2011-11-21T22:54:24Z

When Charlie Chaplin was the most famous person in the world, he could get rid of his moustache and go more or less anywhere he wanted. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

So here we have a book with seemingly endless blocks of text and characters who are all, more or less, at death’s door. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal

“Who Is the Sender” more or less qualifies as his fourth album, outside of some demos and home recordings. Review: Bill Fay’s ‘Who Is the Sender?’ Harks Back to Another Time 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

It works, more or less well, in the way markets do. Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

It is more or less Ms. Engel’s first lead role in a professional career that has spanned some 40 years. Georgia Engel, a ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Sidekick, Takes a Star Turn 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The resulting noirish crime thriller, about a scheme to use prison inmates as hired killers, is more or less coherent but always dynamic, and it wisely exploits its vivid Manila locations. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ashley’s recorded voice, gentle and unemotional, reads his story more or less verbatim — think of an audiobook — while the dancers occasionally appear in front of the curtain to perform movement phrases. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Driven by the Rhythm of Words, Light and Bodies 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Point taken; but Rorty believed that, in addressing more or less all of humanity as his fellow-prisoners, Foucault was being decadent, and not simply because he was weakening the distinction between metaphorical and actual inmates. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Stepanova says she began writing it — in a more or less spiritual sense, one presumes — when she was 10. A Writer Shakes Her Family Tree, and Cherishes Every Leaf 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The sandals, detailed with silver mesh, were more or less my size, but looked as if they would fit my dad, and seemed, literally, to weigh around three pounds. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z

Then I fought a tougher kid named Michael, more or less to a draw, and after that things were more peaceable. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

And his defense of his recent comments is, more or less, that we should trust him that he’s not homophobic. Here's Why Everyone Is So Annoyed With Matt Damon 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

There’s talk of an abandoned wedding and, inevitably, a full tank of gas, set over a beat more or less indistinguishable from the one in Jay Z’s “99 Problems.” Miranda Lambert catches a spark on exuberant 'Platinum' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

I thought there were enough people working on it, enough data, enough examples and enough theory to make it possible to spin it together into a more or less coherent story. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z

I hit a happy face only once, and then it was more or less as an ironic gesture. Apptitude: Sleep Cycle didn’t help him wake refreshed — or at all

On the west coast, “even though it’s really pretty, it rains more or less constantly at certain times of the year,” she said. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Darwinian drama of individuals finding themselves more or less able to spawn offspring is a drama whose future direction no one knows or needs to know. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z

She more or less looks the part that the filmmakers don’t let her fully play. Movie Review | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': Stieg Larsson?s Novel on Screen 2010-03-18T23:36:00Z

Which didn't happen so thoroughly that the way the Soviet Union seemed to be between 1957 and 1964 or thereabouts has been more or less displaced from our collective memory. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z

But since 2005, he has created a work more or less every two years for the company, as well as several for the Royal Ballet School and for the company’s choreography program. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

It had more or less abandoned the genre to the likes of Disney and DreamWorks Animation, before undergoing a course correction. Box Office: 'Magnificent Seven' hits bullseye with $35 million debut 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

By the same token, faith becomes vulnerable to skepticism when it links itself to more or less arbitrary decisions about diet or dress. Screening Room: “Bacon & God’s Wrath” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Two kids from Milan who made it: nothing more or less than that. Italian music now: from Turin to Sicily 2012-07-10T15:48:29Z

By executing the mantra more or less in reverse, we managed to step onto the beach with dry feet. Sailing to the End of the World in Patagonia 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Are things more or less funny at the moment? Q&A: Yoram Bauman — economist, author, jokester 2012-06-22T19:38:04Z

And, as Lembke points out, doctors are a group chosen for more or less exactly the opposite characteristics. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Jatahy begins with a more or less straightforward reworking of the original before chipping way at the fourth wall to interrogate what it means to revisit "Miss Julie" from her cultural and historical vantage. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

So my arm said, more or less: “Result not found.” Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Korea was also, more or less, a conventional conflict between uniformed armies, although bombing practices there would bear examination in the perspective of history. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

This voice, the playwright reminds us, is more or less the opposite of the Asian one of stereotype, as in: “Herro! Prease to meeting you! I so Asian!” Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's hard to say that any specifically Iberian influence is audible here – this album's sound was more or less in place on 2008's much-admired You & Me – but it's nonetheless another lovely record. The Walkmen: Lisbon 2010-10-07T22:59:00Z

Even given the ever-shifting and unpredictable borders of contemporary country music, Tyler Farr is a man more or less without a state. Review: Tyler Farr Flaunts Arena-Size Ambitions at Irving Plaza 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The renaissance more or less ended here, but it’s an impressive way to go out. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the singer-guitarist took the stage, as he often does, wearing more or less the same thing as bassist Dusty Hill: black pants, black jacket, dark sunglasses beneath a dark hat. ZZ Top at the Greek: 5 thoughts on the band's show 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Split over two floors, the exhibition unfolds more or less chronologically. Art Review: ?Crafting Modernism? at the Museum of Arts and Design 2011-10-27T22:19:42Z

I wanted to interrupt them, to ask if this was just another normal Saturday afternoon, but I already knew the answer, more or less. Through Home Food, Being a Guest for Meals at Italian Homes 2010-04-10T02:26:00Z

Fiona and Claire’s shattered relationship is, in its way, another casualty of the epidemic, in that the illnesses and deaths of so many of Fiona’s friends more or less exhausted her capacity for love. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

To Madame the members of the lower orders are more or less indistinguishable, and because they obsessively view themselves through the lens of her disdain, they are virtually indistinguishable to each other, too. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z

He won every major award, more or less: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and lots of others. C. K. Williams in The New Yorker 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Hamill’s hands, the plot survives more or less intact. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

All of them are more or less groping to find the boundaries of morality, the show’s most consistent theme. The Walking Dead 'Crossed' Recap: Hot'n'Melty 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

There were reports that bodies had been found near there, and it was more or less certain it was her group because they were the only western people in that area. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Can't, he more or less argues, everyone just cheer up a bit? Et cetera: non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T07:00:03Z

That’s more or less it, give or take a few explosions. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z

The songs on “Motorcycle Jesus” are more or less rock songs. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

It didn’t; in ‘Ragtime,’ Doctorow more or less invented it. E. L. Doctorow in The Times 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The moving image may have many fathers, but full custody of the credit, more or less, has always gone to Thomas Edison. He Created the First Known Movie. Then He Vanished. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

This forms the basis of more or less an entire plotline. | 'Are We There Yet?': Terry Crews Stars as a Disillusioned Newlywed on TBS 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z

The scientific discussions that undergird the outer-space journey are more or less the only thing in the movie that provide delight. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Great, because now it’s back to business, more or less. Moviegoers Voted With Their Wallets; Now It's the Academy's Turn 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

That, more or less, is the moral of “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” which opened in 1965 on Broadway, where it ran for a respectable 220 performances. Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

I did, more or less for the rest of our lives. 'She'll never realise the impact she had': life-changing conversations 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

But with the beach treatment more or less a bust, they nevertheless set out together on a mad mission to seek the advice and care of an Oprah-like wellness guru named Adah. Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Yet a year ago, when men’s wear designers were dreaming up their takes on the trench, the Climate Prediction Center was forecasting a more or less average spring, for rainfall, across most of the country. Trading Up: Into the Trenches 2011-05-18T20:28:55Z

Quite a few recent and incoming musicals — “& Juliet,” “Once Upon a One More Time” and “Six” among them — have more or less reasonably applied a feminist spin to pre-feminist tales and history. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

There are some arias that are so beloved, so virtually indestructible, that they more or less sing themselves. Review: A Tenor Arrives at the Met Opera in ‘Elisir’ 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Now, it is nearly done, and Mr. Klein has more or less moved in. The House That Calvin Klein Built 2013-08-30T21:08:57Z

The facade more or less recreates that of the 1870s Haskins Building, which the center replaced, and looks like a storefront, complete with an awning rather than a marquee. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z

Whitworth’s main question is how one man, working more or less alone, can put together a talk show nearly every weekday. Takes: Joe Franklin 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The film is divided, more or less equally, into two parts, the first set during the Civil War and the second during Reconstruction. ?Birth of a Nation,? Born Again for DVD 2011-11-27T05:03:04Z

Her photo collage “comparisons” series juxtaposes well-known art works — most notably Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” — with similarly composed, more or less shocking photographs from the internet. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

At this point, it's probably what the market was more or less expecting. The Croods conquer UK box office 2013-03-26T16:12:08Z

"The guy who played more or less the lead boy had it all going on under the surface; he was quite silent and not easily drawn," says Gold. Street casting: the next big thing 2011-02-10T22:15:01Z

Under U.S. law, therefore, any hint of women’s distinctiveness has been essentially banished, replaced by the belief that women, given the same opportunities, will behave more or less like men. After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z

Things go more or less as you expect, with enough surprises and “reveals” to make you mad at me if I say too much more. Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sticks to Its Brand. That’s Not Necessarily Bad. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

A few attempts later, my fly landed more or less where I wanted it. Off Belize, a Hunt for Saltwater Fly-Fishing’s Top Prizes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

That darkness doesn’t abate, not even when some of the women return to more or less normal lives and skid toward middle age. ‘Yellowjackets’ Leans in to Savagery 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

This was more or less the position I found myself in three years ago, when my novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb was having difficulty finding a home. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

At this point, every fan of the show is more or less aware that Boyd was initially supposed to die in that very first episode. Walton Goggins on the Series Finale of Justified and the Fate of Boyd Crowder 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

By his own account, he was able to capture silhouettes of four airborne feet with more or less ordinary photographic equipment at a racetrack in Sacramento. ‘Nope,’ Eadweard Muybridge and the Story of ‘The Horse in Motion’ 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Burns attended Andover and Harvard, but despite ringing endorsements from professors who recognized his literary gifts, he was more or less blackballed because of his religion when he sought work as a prep school teacher. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

There are no inferior dishes, only dishes you might want more or less of. Review | A great new Korean restaurant sets itself apart from the pack 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Before seeing this, I had thought that, between them, and from different directions, Airplane! and the real-time 9/11 drama United 93 had more or less finished off the aeroplane disaster movie. Flight – review 2013-01-31T15:30:00Z

The best comedy nominations at this year’s Emmys went more or less as expected. Why season three of “Girls” got snubbed by the Emmys 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The action scenes are visceral, and more or less rooted in the laws of physics. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Of course, there’s always a contract between performer and audience member, roles that can be more or less distinct depending on the nature of the work. At a ‘Dinner With Ghosts,’ Everything Is Art 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The productions I’m talking about are more or less realistic, as opposed to the sort of broad farce or instructional Brechtian fare where you expect people to be caricatures. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z

Has the show made you more or less likely to? “It feels like we’re watching misery porn”: Salon’s “The Walking Dead” experts break down the show’s issues with race and representation 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

That means more or less everything in man-made modernity, every city and almost every building, and New York serves as the master synecdoche for the relentless, eruptive destruction of the world. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

With them, you more or less double that. Experience enriches fiction, but it doesn't reward authors 2011-02-03T12:21:38Z

Like Jesus, she is an idealised projection of our own best selves, which is why Bennett has mapped his own literary sensibilities, more or less, on to hers. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z

In the space of a month, two shy, unsure strangers had begun dating, become a couple and were now more or less living together. Time to get out my ‘sex shirt’ … tonight might be the night 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

His Christmas Tree-O, which released a scrappy and endearing album on Palmetto two years ago, does more or less what you’d expect, batting around holiday standards with a mischievous but sentimental air. Music Review: Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O at Jazz Standard 2012-12-20T23:14:20Z

Indeed, both presentations proved antiquarian musically, in performances anchored by the excellent period-instrument Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; and more or less progressive theatrically, with settings and stage action updated to the modern era. Review: Exploring Captivity in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ and Mozart’s ‘Entführung’ at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

It may sound like a librettist’s fantasy, but in this case it happens to be more or less true. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

And, since they get to more or less choose when, where, how, and with whom they work, that may well be the case. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z

I don't know if this makes me more or less optimistic about existence. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The judges of the Costa biography prize more or less turned their backs on conventional biography. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z

The work was more or less staged, and the music was prepared as much as it could be with only a piano. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

But that its star, Michael Thomas, playing a washed-up club singer in an off-season Italian beach town, was not specifically recognized is more or less a crime. The Joy (and Pain) of the Physical, at an In-Person Berlin Film Festival 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

But “Teach,” hosted by Queen Latifah, is more or less the opposite of that film. Television Review: Davis Guggenheim Goes to School With New Film 2013-09-05T20:28:12Z

In some cases, these amount to more or less the same thing. | 'The Dilemma': A Guy Thing? Not That Kind. And Not That Kind Either. 2011-01-13T18:24:54Z

The movie more or less writes itself after she hikes her skirt and he tends her wound. ‘Dreamland’ Review: Bang Bang, Blah Blah 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

A hammer hits a string with more or less force, and that’s pretty much the end of it. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips

In mid-19th-century America, anxiety about guys more or less like Paul drove movements for social and religious reform, and Ms. Cholodenko suggests that those advocates of temperance and other remedies may have had a point. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z

With the rise of such book-based shows in the 1940s as “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel,” however, the leads were more or less unknowns. ArtsBeat: Does Music Trump Story? More Answers to Your Broadway Questions 2010-12-08T23:05:00Z

Has playing a teenager stressed out about college made you more or less interested in applying? Chloë Grace Moretz Talks 'If I Stay' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

This, more or less, sums up the reaction to Aubry's irritating performance, and her Fox contract was not renewed. C?cile Aubry obituary 2010-07-30T15:34:00Z

Rarer yet, when his work is in progress, he’s more or less just another bystander, curiously looking on. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Was the boost to your single's promo campaign worth more or less than the £200 you would have got from You've Been Framed? Sharleen Spiteri: 'I'd cut off my arm for someone to call us a pop band' 2013-05-16T14:00:01Z

But, of course, the two of them end up working together to bring down a drug kingpin and learning, more or less, to appreciate each other. Movie Review: ‘The Heat’ Is a Buddy Movie Without Any Guys 2013-06-27T16:22:35Z

Midway through the play a storm arrives, cueing a scene in which Vilem wanders around his courtyard, railing against the cruel gods, in words drawn more or less directly from “Lear.” | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z

About 100 pages from the end, the book shifts from a more or less seamless narrative to a series of stitched-together observations and mini-essays on race, black art and the perils of parenting. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamelin’s performance, already discussed, was a more or less epic tour de force, delivered with ease and sheer mastery. ArtsBeat: The Consolations of a Schubert Sonata Surplus 2013-07-31T19:37:44Z

In Britain, our orchestras are more or less 50/50. Portrait of the artist: Edward Gardner, conductor 2012-06-12T18:00:01Z

I don’t think so, because it’s more or less the same kind of lacerating humor that Gervais would subject one of his own characters to. TV Weekend: Life?s Too Short 2012-02-17T17:23:29Z

This was at a time when my English classes were preparing me for English classes in college with Chaucer and Milton, and I pictured writing as some lost alchemy performed more or less by wizards. Literary Idol: Amelia Gray on Shirley Jackson 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

And I can’t think of a better illustration of the fluidity of tradition, its almost arbitrary nature, than our — and that’s a big our, the entirety of humanity, more or less — response to recent times. A Gratin That Embraces Tradition, and Innovates on It 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

In practical terms, this would mean doing as the humanists have done since the building of the library of Alexandria, more or less. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Nevins described his role as “more or less writing checks and leaving them alone.” What about TV is now attracting top directors? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Tanya Lopez, executive vice president of movies, limited series and original movie acquisitions at Lifetime, more or less confirmed Mills’s approach. A Canadian Town Is a Festive Anywhere, U.S.A., Onscreen 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Wonder Wheel” more or less becomes Ginny’s story, but she doesn’t get to own it. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

“It’s basically been the same recipe for 120 years, more or less, with a few tweaks.” said Preston Van Winkle, Julian’s son. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand

I more or less fell in love with the place before I got here. The Júcar gorge: Spain’s very own grand canyon 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a rule of principle not desire, and so it is more or less useless. Breaking up with my type: How I learned to stop worrying and let myself loathe the men I once desired 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The hostility between the two rappers dates back years, but it had been more or less dormant for a while—recently, it has thawed, producing a beef somehow both transcendent and petty. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Contestants move through different escape room-style challenges, earning more or less time inside a sphere that showers them with prizes at the end. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Kraftwerk's minimalist lyrics and deadpan delivery mean someone else could remake Computer Love in the opposite direction, as a nightmare worthy of Black Mirror, and it would be no more or less true. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z

Will Adamsdale as her feckless partner, Justine Mitchell as the alcoholic Mary and Stuart McQuarrie as the comically Anglophile Ben also adjust, more or less convincingly, to the rhythms of American life. Detroit ? review 2012-05-16T17:24:50Z

All of this happens more or less in the back story. He Killed Her Mother. Now He Wants to Make Amends. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

She more or less hung up on me after a few minutes. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Struggling to mend a strained friendship 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

And the other, that somehow in our silence about those years it got more or less lost, that story of change and action and political mobilization. An Activist’s Path: A Q&A with the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague 2013-02-21T13:00:05Z

Sometimes, thanks to the valiant stenographers of Hansard, there is a good chance that this reflects, more or less accurately, the words as spoken. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z

From an environmental perspective, it’s more or less like taking a Hummer along a high-speed rail route. Are Frequent Flier Miles Killing the Planet? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Logan fixed the problem; Kendall is now, more or less, his indentured servant. The Second Season of “Succession” Digs Into the Characters’ Self-Loathing 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

He more or less dropped out from the public eye until he flew off to the Philippines in 1976 to play the zonked-out photojournalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Dennis Hopper, Riding Out the Ups and Downs 2010-04-07T15:37:00Z

In broad strokes, the scenarios are more or less the same: A weak young prisoner of Middle Eastern descent learns that he cannot keep his head down and expect to survive. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

So I show them pictures from the YSL living room when it was empty, more or less, and when it was laden with works by Picasso and others decades later. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But the show's deficiencies — a seriousness unleavened with sufficient humor, Hammerstein's sentimental lyrics — have more or less benched the musical. Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

At the book’s heart is a series of longer essays on figures of the 20th- and 21st-century art world, more or less known, many of them women to whom attention has only recently been granted. Ways of Seeing 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The conclusion is more or less the same, right there in the title. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

And crucially, she is more or less alone, not part of any pop movement of the day. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Viviane, the woman in the parking lot, lives more or less in the current day. Women on the Scottish Coast, at the Whims of Male Violence 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

In fact, the atmosphere reminds me of nothing more than a Times Square deli, circa 1958: it’s loud, there are sometimes lines, the food is more or less hurled in your direction. Choice Tables: In London, Great Indian Food Without the Fuss 2012-02-10T18:08:46Z

It was an update of the Allen Funt show from the early days of television, but more or less as gentle as the initial years of the original series were. ‘Freak Out’ ‘Deal With It’ Use Hidden Cameras 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

When Allen photographs people, he often finds someone in the crowd, and places them in sharp focus with the rest of the image more or less blurred. A young photographer made the Baltimore Uprising unforgettable 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

They were more or less naked and kind of shocked. The Cruise Issue: Q&A: 25 Years on the Sea and Counting 2011-02-11T19:55:00Z

He sells out book tours in seconds and his works are more or less summer blockbusters for retailers nationwide. 10 Great TV Shows Just Waiting to Be Made 2013-10-03T09:45:34Z

That was, more or less, the spectacle that greeted the audience in a program by the Mutter Virtuosi, a small string orchestra led by the eminent violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Anne-Sophie Mutter and Her Protégées at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Is Avri’s behavior surprising in any way, or more or less predictable? This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

In hindsight, I more or less trafficked him. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

In the telling aftermath, the ruthless Persian commander is more or less recast as a woman scorned, ultimately leaving Greece, and everyone’s machismo, mostly intact. Movie Review: In ‘300: Rise of an Empire,’ Greeks Under Siege Again 2014-03-07T01:38:02Z

“The 9.0 quake last week off the coast of the northern city of Sendai was the strongest in Japanese history, and is thought to be, more or less, the fifth-strongest in human knowledge and measurement.” Sunday Reading: Responding to Disaster 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

That more or less sums up the ethos of the show, which presented the corporation as an amoral agent of profit and as complying with customers whatever the request, only funny. A Rich TV Legacy for Corporate Mega-Evil 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

At that point, he lost interest in painting, a shift that seems more or less to have coincided with his coming out. Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Just what qualifies a substantial evening of vocal music, run together in a sequence that more or less defines a dramatic arc, to be designated as an ? Music Review: Boy Meets Girl in Matt Marks?s ?Little Death, Vol. 1? 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z

Some, like Oliver himself, have more or less succeeded; others, like Leonard “Manny” Compton, have not. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Her interview with Simpson turned into more or less an infomercial for Weight Watchers, for whom Simpson became a paid spokeswoman after the tabloids roasted her for her mom jeans and postpartum weight. Katie Comes to Daytime, Asking the Weighty Questions 2012-09-11T13:13:34Z

“We haven’t found anything spectacularly new,” he said, “but we’ve discovered that a claim by the Iraqi Water Ministry might be more or less correct. That sounds really boring, but I think it’s important.” How to Conduct an Open-Source Investigation, According to the Founder of Bellingcat 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Near the end, Beau Brooks came out onstage alone and, more or less sincerely, thanked them for allowing their daughters to come to the show. The Janoskians Bring Their Brand to Irving Plaza 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Filling their tall and narrow canvases more or less exactly, these devices look like skeletons — almost alien but weirdly familiar — in cross-sections of shadowy flesh. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cooper went on to note that because of medical advances, an increasing number of soldiers are returning from conflict psychologically damaged, only to be more or less discarded. Bradley Cooper Says 'American Sniper' Debate Ignores Plight of Veterans 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Harry Fehr, who staged the revival, had them dashing about the stage, doing push-ups, posturing, and in more or less constant motion. Seattle Opera puts a zesty 21st century spin on ‘Cosi fan tutte’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is more or less alone in giving contemporary work an equal platform. Notes Toward Reinventing the American Orchestra 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Her mother lived in 13 different places around the world, first alone and later with her daughter and son in tow, but felt at home, "more or less," in each, Soetoro-Ng said. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z

Formula One is to Nascar, the version of racing more prominent on screen these days, more or less what polo is to rodeo. Making a Pit Stop in Formula One With ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T12:16:47Z

Portraits were for kings, popes, saints and other luminaries higher up in the cosmic food chain, and their images were meant for official, more or less public display at sites like churches and tombs. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z

If nothing else, it’s amusing to imagine what he and Ms. Moore chatted about between takes and how each managed to keep from cracking up, more or less. ‘Seventh Son’ Stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Kit Harington 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It documents a shared condition around the world: Culture workers are more or less confined, all travel on hold, projects suspended. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

I was at that stage in my life where I was somewhat, more or less, rebellious. Al Pacino on ‘The Godfather’: ‘It’s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On’ 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

The golden anniversary of the Beatles is more or less upon us, depending upon when one deems their year of origin, and this would be a glorious way to celebrate that milestone. Letters: Summer Movies: A Singalong Suggestion 2010-05-06T19:11:00Z

It was noticeable, however, that while both were set up more or less as competitions, there were no losers. Andrew Anthony 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

He approaches the process more or less as he would any dance. The Pragmatist’s Progress: Mark Morris Adapts to Creating Online 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Did you expect more or less?” one asked. Many find solidarity — and catharsis — at the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Petrenko more or less redeemed the score, by teasing out every corner of that “Viennese sound spectrum” with exuberance and clarity. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Watergate – now more or less synonymous with the entire administration – barely constitutes background noise until almost the end of the affair. Nixon's White House – caught on Super 8 2013-06-13T15:00:01Z

Elsewhere, there was a lack of conviction, perhaps prompted by current consoles more or less reaching their sell-by date and resulting in end-of-cycle uncertainty and free-to-play experiments. The best games of 2012: Nathan Ditum's choice 2012-12-16T00:07:44Z

It is muddled, intricate, spectacular film, but more or less in control of all its craziness and very watchable. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z

This attraction was made for the kind of people who have more or less memorized Ms. Rowling’s books, and it shows in all sorts of details. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

It’s just like a novel — except that it more or less proves the old saw about truth being stranger than fiction. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

It’s “Hoosiers,” more or less, relocated to a poor agricultural town in California’s Central Valley in 1987. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

“All these have met more or less tragic deaths through wild beasts, savages, fever, drowning, falls or other accidents.” ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested. Roof climbing with Paul McCartney – a classic interview from the archives 2012-06-18T15:33:47Z

In “Mrs. Dalloway”’s London, consciousness passes from one character to another in more or less the way a baton is passed among members of a relay race. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

There’s also the nature of the dancing itself, which is also more or less blank: a series of slight shifts of weight, quick hand gestures, head bobbles and side-to-side steps. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

For Surkov, truth is what you can get away with, more or less. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

I'm actually not sure if their fulsome compliments make me want to read the book more or less than its storyline simply did. 'The most gifted writer I've ever read': outblurb the Grossman fans 2010-07-06T09:25:00Z

Nobody was ever charged, but the mystery is more or less solved by The Keepers, a seven-part Netflix documentary that demonstrates how the new wave of true crime series is already evolving. Who murdered Sister Cathy? Netflix takes true crime to the next level 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Today, with many theaters occupied by long-running shows, and Off Broadway more or less defunct as a commercial option, there’s no such thing as an undesirable Broadway theater. A Temple of Drama, Burnished 2010-08-28T02:45:00Z

But now the country was quiet — more or less — and, after a year’s hiatus because of the war, the Festival on the Niger was back in business. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Surrounding more or less sober portrait subjects with backgrounds of flat but brilliant color, as Kirchner did, wasn’t just a youthful revolt against the staid academic painting he grew up with. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The photogenic Italian sfogliatella pastry, which I bought more or less entirely to take a photo of, is actually pretty tough. Click plate: how Instagram is changing the way we eat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Directed by Irvin Kershner, this film begins more or less where “The Daughter of Dawn” ends — with one tribe attacking another’s idyllic village. Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The media has had many opportunities to deny Buchanan a platform, and yet he’s been a consistent presence on television more or less ever since “The McLaughlin Group” first premiered. Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don't need a "McLaughlin Group" revival now 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

The opening track, “Say What,” finds Mr. Lewis more or less breathing flames over a ragged funk drone, sounding righteous and furious even after the tempo downshifts, four minutes in. The Playlist: Shakira Takes Charge and Protest Rap Is Still Alive 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The essay form is best for making an argument that is more or less rational, and my feelings on the subject are too complicated and contradictory for that. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, it's still boy-meets-girl, and the only issue between them -- because it's more or less a love match right away -- is how the boy feels about the girl already being pregnant. Jennifer Lopez solid in formulaic "Back-up Plan" 2010-04-09T00:29:00Z

Meanwhile, the New York Times says — more or less every week — that we probably don’t have much of a shot in the real world. We are the lamest generation! 2013-06-01T13:00:00Z

But “36 Questions” is a full-length and more or less traditional book musical written expressly for the podcast form. This Podcast Is a Love Story, for Your Ears Only 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

I could spend a day more or less on my own there, and I’d be fine. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

It's a hectic pile-up, this movie, but at least in its final laps it takes the time to say its good-byes more or less properly. Goodbyes abound in 'Night at the Museum' as trilogy comes to an end 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

It would mean the zombie shoots really are fundamentally just gun culture Comic-Con, and probably no more or less encouraging of tragedy than anything else. Gun owners are obsessed with zombies 2013-02-21T17:28:00Z

Arctic Dreams is a more or less perfect example of a tendency in my reading towards what can only be described as "comfort savagery". Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z

“CNN, who has nearly 50 additional hard pass holders, and Mr. Acosta is no more or less special than any other media outlet or reporter with respect to the First Amendment,” she said. CNN sues White House to regain access for reporter Jim Acosta 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Since 2003 there has been no chance to revive the scene in a country where public gatherings – other than religious events – have become more or less nonexistent. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z

To some, Lil Xan’s success is an exciting sign of changing times in rap; to others, it’s an utterly dismaying indicator of more or less the same thing. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Selley said the collection was notable for its breadth of range and more or less all of the greats were there. Sotheby's to auction 'knockout' collection of first-edition books 2010-06-01T16:54:00Z

These are good questions, and Miller keeps the argument more or less evenhanded, tossing in a new twist every time one man’s claim threatens to dominate. Review: Brothers Joined by Fate and Furniture in ‘The Price’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Selina's inner circle keeps the foul-mouthed insanity on the rails and the campaign moving more or less on track, as usual. The dagger-sharp satire of HBO's "Veep," returning for its final season, feels all too real now 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

The show is more or less “frozen” and rumor has it that tonight the critics will begin to drop by. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Now, they are undoubtedly well prepared for Occupy II, as long as it occurs in more or less the fashion that the last one did.  Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy 2012-06-26T20:49:00Z

This has begun to change recently, although mainly on television, where shows like “Girls” and “Broad City” have extended the privileges of arrested development on a more or less equal-opportunity basis. Movie Review: Adulthood vs. Arrested Development in ‘Neighbors’ 2014-05-08T12:00:03Z

“The Passion of Joan of Arc” was canonized more or less instantly. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

All hail the VCR: the more or less obsolete technology that keeps on giving. Review: A Trip to Hell, via the VCR, in ‘Beyond the Gates’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

"You mean to jumble language pointlessly and stir the words like soup when nothing much is happening?" says one of the characters, which more or less sums it up. Twelfth Night/Masters Are You Mad? – review 2012-07-27T16:56:46Z

It’s possible that this kind of ballet more or less ended with Balanchine’s death in 1983. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Holland crept out of Nasr's office more or less insisting that the last thing he wanted was for any Muslim to take him seriously, so no harm was done. TV review: Islam: The Untold Story; Accused 2012-08-28T21:40:01Z

Whether you find this second bit of information more or less frightening than the first probably goes a long way toward determining whether you should see the Flux Theater Ensemble’s production of “Dog Act.” Theater Review: The End Is Near, Now Everybody Dance! 2011-02-12T02:50:56Z

The jokes may be denuded but what's underneath the clothing of laughter, we see, is more or less all muscle. "Saturday Night Live at Home" shows us the honesty in live comedy without an audience 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

He’s from a fairly traditional Pakistani family; she’s a more or less average white American, a grad student with a divorce in her past. Review: The Big Sick Treads the Minefield of Cross-Cultural Love, and of Just Being a Grown-up 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Well, I was going to say “an eel,” but since that mermaid stuff is more or less ditched after the opening, I’d better find a new set of similes. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

By the end of the season, Gordon is in charge of Cardiff, more or less by default. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: In a Flawed Series, a Very Big Truth 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The basic plot of this “Octoroon” is Boucicault’s, more or less. Theater Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep 2014-05-05T02:00:01Z

She is too refined for Texas, and is “adjudged more or less permanently Nervous.” Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

She chose to keep Orpheus’s double onstage; her production is a more or less straightforward reading of the text. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Within five years, the street pusher could be more or less obsolete, run out of town in the same way Amazon has hounded independent booksellers. Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yellin hoped for a synergistic relationship with the newly developing arts and culture scene in this remote area of Brooklyn, and that is more or less what he has gotten. Encounters : Dustin Yellin: Opening Doors, Opening Eyes 2014-03-19T21:39:01Z

It's not usually noted in routine hagiographies of Margaret Thatcher, supposedly a rock of purpose and integrity, that she was actually the woman who made government and advertising more or less interchangeable. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z

But I did grow up, more or less, eventually, though not enough to become tall. The Life Lessons of “Little Lulu” 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Some of them are sung more or less as written on both incarnations of the album: Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

After years of wandering more or less aimlessly, Sanderson finds direction in the carnage; he becomes so committed that he pursues and kills at least two government soldiers. Paul Theroux on a Globetrotting Novel Inspired by a Real Adventurer 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

With so few owners, the house has remained more or less intact. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

On Thursday TBS takes the same premise, more or less, in a much, much lighter direction with “The Guest Book,” a comedy about the vacationers who rent a particular cabin. Review: Rental Wackiness, Detailed in TBS’s ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

That means other countries are more or less forced to buy and hold low-yielding Treasury debt to back up their own currencies. 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years': Mankind's millenialong obligation 2011-08-22T21:26:09Z

Could The Wire be made today and look more or less the same? David Simon: ‘If you’re not consuming porn, you’re still consuming its logic’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

They are not, for example, aiming to produce a library of streaming content, the likes of which more or less constitute the brands of Netflix, HBO or other streaming platforms. Apple's TV tactics: can the tech giant figure out the television formula? 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Polenta with shrimp is more or less Shrimp and Grits. Polenta and Shrimp, a Marriage of Land and Sea 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

As a work of literature it’s more or less negligible, although the workmanlike prose is enlivened with zesty infusions of gum-chewing New York humor. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z

Alexandria does, and Oak Steakhouse is more or less filling the need with the help of an outside player. A Charleston restaurant group plants a steak in Old Town 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Far better to hear him as he appeared at Brooklyn Bowl, alone and more or less acoustic. Music Review: A Carefully Honed Image as a Master of the Ukulele 2011-01-22T00:26:37Z

Healthy for Now: I’m glad that you and your husband are coexisting more or less peacefully. Perspective | Ask Amy: Husband won’t adopt safer hygiene against virus 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

AO: It more or less got amplified, and it was really sad writing grant applications after the hurricane. After the flood, art still “Matters” 2013-02-09T18:00:00Z

Ma and Myint are more or less doing their part to fill the room. Ten Tigers Parlour preview: No lingering, unfortunately, in Petworth 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Each bout lasted a few years and was different from the one before, and each has been given its own gallery, more or less. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Spierigs more or less untangle the proceedings enough so that you grasp how the Unmarried Woman became a he and — over time — the pivot and whatzit. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

There were also darker times, as when Mr. Ingels, then an up-and-coming comic, had a paralyzing anxiety attack while performing on “The Tonight Show,” more or less ending his standup career. Marty Ingels, Actor and Comedian, Is Dead at 79 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Even when the medication wears off, that’s more or less his character. Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

"We more or less worked in a rehearsal barn in the Cotswolds with nothing but sheep for company," said Lydon. No hint of mellowing for ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon 2012-10-15T23:06:50Z

Other more or less familiar tales in “The Turnip Princess” include the Cinderella-like “Ashfeathers” and “Seven With One Blow!,” a version of “The Brave Little Tailor.” A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

We talk about life after Game Of Thrones, which will start more or less as soon as we finish our interview. Gwendoline Christie: ‘Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

While it skimps on atmosphere — a backdrop of a blown-up photo of the Cotton Blossom more or less has to haul the whole freight — this version does feature many songs that are not always included. New York Philharmonic Stages ‘Show Boat’ 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

"It is a mirror which reflects back, more or less distorted, that view of the past which the onlooker takes there," Chippindale says. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z

David McVicar directs, on naturalistic sets that look more or less the same as the Franco Zeffirelli ones that were stalwarts for decades. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

If you were less kind, you might also say The King, the Widow and Rick was slow, po-faced, stuffed with ripe monologues and faintly irritating more or less all of the time. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

In 1969 the Conceptual artist Douglas Huebler produced his best-known artwork, a verbal statement announcing, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z

In a sense, it’s the one thing that the money guys and the creatives have fretted over in more or less equal measure. Is Watching a Movie on a Phone Really So Bad? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

You both have worked more or less continuously in films and television since 1987. “Some Kind of Wonderful” at 30: On the John Hughes film’s epic romances — on- and off-camera — that endure 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

All but 2 of the 20 paintings in this show, which was organized by the artist Jan Frank, portray a rabbi, seated, bearded and wearing more or less elaborate headgear. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z

Mr. Ebert, the critic, was more or less smitten from the start with Mr. Pollard, who was largely unknown until “Bonnie and Clyde.” Michael J. Pollard, Character Actor in ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies at 80 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Our call time was 7:30 p.m. — a half-hour after curtain — and by that time we were all more or less able to get into our costumes without friction. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

All the classic interior elements remained more or less unchanged until Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor which showed us a very different, almost steam-punk interior. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z

The children follow Carol’s instructions more or less obediently, despite being divided from normal society by their inability to enjoy simple treats. Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The plot — here updated more or less to the time the opera was written, 1725 — defies quick description. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns in ?Rodelinda? Opera - Review 2011-11-15T22:51:34Z

“One of the riders in our contract is that we pick the artist and have, more or less, final cut on what we do,” said Justin Ishmael, Mondo’s creative director. Movie Posters are the Business of Mondo 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

I love Champagne with ham — I would choose a brut, which will taste more or less dry, despite the sweetness of the glaze. The Most Flavorful Easter Ham Starts on the Stove 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It happened last week on consecutive evenings, when two of the city’s finest professional church choirs presented contrasting oratorios touching on more or less parallel Old Testament subjects. Music Review: Handel?s Old Testament Dramas Revived in New York 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

On the evening in question Véra believes she is bidding a more or less fond farewell to a favored client, and to the maison close or “house of tolerance” known as the Paradis. “Maison Close”: Dive into 19th-century brothel life with this addictive French workplace drama 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Below are six more exhibitions in or near TriBeCa — from Varick Street to the Bowery, more or less — that have stayed with me. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

A few of these did more or less OK. Prince of Persia shows why films based on video games will never work 2010-05-24T11:06:00Z

It was all good, more or less — a rare sour note occurring on a visit home to England in 1930, when publicity agents arranged for them to meet George Bernard Shaw at his Hertfordshire home. Claudine Mawby, Last of Early Film ‘Triplets,’ Dies at 90 2012-09-22T03:07:50Z

Yet, with few fences or signs, the landscape is strikingly similar to what Jefferson described, the hills “more or less red or reddish,” “their sides in vines,” the vineyards “enclosed with dry stone walls.” Footsteps: Retracing Jefferson?s Steps in Burgundy 2010-06-11T15:39:00Z

Ms. Twain also, because of either psychological or physical ailment, more or less lost her ability to sing. | 'Why Not? With Shania Twain': A Country Star in Search of Her Voice 2011-05-06T23:37:40Z

Ms. Silver, Mr. Silver’s mother, who more or less serves to punctuate the plotting here and there, seemed far more comfortable in her hilariously neurotic role in “Exit Elena.” Review: ‘Uncertain Terms’ Enters a Home for Pregnant Young Women 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

At the interview on Monday, she more or less confirmed her departure. Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Through the profiling process, he was what journalists like to call “coöperative”: friendly and more or less available. Rooting for “Boyhood” 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

South African racism begins to play a role, though the fact that Vernon is black is more or less unrelated to that. Review: ‘The Verdict’ Speaks in a Grisham-esque Tongue With a British Accent 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The story starts, more or less, in 1998, when the new video game company Valve released its first game, Half-Life. Online gambling’s weird new frontier: The $2.3 billion business of garishly painted virtual assault rifles 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Because when I got to the hospital, it was more or less over. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

Plath and Roth got away with it, more or less, but it’s a tricky artistic model. A Heroine Checks In to the Psychiatric Ward, and Takes Notes 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s more or less one of the holy places of New York.” A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Old-fashioned boulevard comedy — bright, easygoing fare that doesn’t require the deciphering of plummy or crummy British accents — has more or less evaporated from the Broadway marketplace since the heyday of Neil Simon. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z

Campion opens, more or less, with Catullus's first six lines. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z

The first act of “The Time That Remains” is more or less a war movie. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z

Evidently very, as Lifetime more or less outright steals the concept of “Children of Men” for a series that may as well be called “Children of Women.” “The Lottery”: Lifetime’s dystopian disaster tries to reverse-engineer prestige TV 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

They were appropriately giddy, and more or less piled on top of each other on a fake leather sofa. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

She took an art form that is common in India and added her own flavor to it, which is, more or less, her gift as an artist. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z

And while that’s around the time, more or less, that science hypothesizes the dinosaurs bit the dust, the wizards at Pixar have forged another creation story. Review: ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Pixar Human and Apatosaurus 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The show is organized more or less chronologically, though it begins with a new piece, Hopscotch, in which images from their career are projected beside a grove of birch trees. Quay Brothers at MoMA: Bending Realities for People and Puppets 2012-08-10T12:16:29Z

Tolman’s self-defense represented a new twist on an old story — tweets like this or this get thrown at more or less every woman with the audacity to step in front of a camera. A “Fargo” star’s weight-shaming tweets get it right 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Fresh off the Indiana primary victory on Tuesday that more or less sealed the Republican nomination for him, Trump was back to his typical media tactics Wednesday morning. Clinton, Trump take contrasting approaches to dealing with media 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, it more or less confirms what we already know about Rudy Giuliani: his corruptibility makes him shockingly easy to dupe. "Borat 2" makes an America slathered in misogyny and disinformation reckon with itself 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

He worked 16-hour days, seven days a week, more or less nonstop for 30 years, and eventually published a landmark 20-volume work, “The North American Indian.” Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

And yes, when I say “drama,” I mean “soap opera,” more or less. When a kidnapped child comes home: The surprising emotional intelligence of “Finding Carter” 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple but more or less binding rule. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

So I called a guy I had started seeing, Ralph, and moved in with him, more or less, that same night. What Boxing Taught Me About Love 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

"We thought we want to keep this more or less the real world, with some exaggerations of Arizona in 1882 so we're not going to fill it with pop culture references," MacFarlane said. MacFarlane mines comedy of death on the frontier in 'A Million Ways' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a compelling moment, no doubt, but it floats more or less untethered to the rest of the book. 1968 Revisited: A Boston Commune and a Van Morrison Classic 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In this strange new world it’s reassuring that the catchphrases are, more or less, intact and, more importantly, Homer and Marge are still in love. The Simpsons: are the couch gags the only things left worth watching? 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Women clearly dig her and apparently constituted 60 percent of the audience the weekend that “Spy” opened, which is more or less in line with her other movies. Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The material about Byrne's domestic arrangements – including a schematic routine about how stray cats are afforded greater hospitality than stray humans – is more or less gossipy. Ed Byrne ? review 2011-03-20T17:49:00Z

In the manner of one-time bohemians who’ve more or less grown up, he’s kind of an ostentatious jerk about it — but then admits to Anders, when they’re alone, that he’s desperately unhappy. Pick of the week: Haunting, gorgeous “Oslo, August 31st” 2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

She fared better, showing off longer phrases and bigger buildups, in the more or less acoustic ballads, like “Stars,” that also provide variety on the album. Review: Alessia Cara, Voice for Outsiders, Becomes an Insider 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Krzhizhanovsky published the grand total of one story in his lifetime, then more or less vanished. Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z

Sometimes they’ve been viewed more or less as training exercises: good for technique but not quite sublime. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

And while they remain more or less true to type, they seem to keep changing their styles of speaking and posturing too. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z

Their preoccupations on this excellent album are, more or less, UK grime and Chicago hip-hop, with flashes of the Caribbean. Future Brown, Confident Song Collective, Cooks New Stews 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

So, it’s the sort of thing that jazz musicians have been doing more or less since the beginning. Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Among the strong supporting cast, Beth Dixon stands out for the moving delicacy of her performance as Hester’s sister, who is also more or less her assistant. Theater Review: ‘City of Conversation’ Charts a Sea Change in Washington 2014-05-06T02:00:01Z

“Powerhouse” is largely a series of direct quotations strung together in more or less chronological and topical order. Power, Ambition and Betrayal in Hollywood: James B. Stewart on ‘Powerhouse’ 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The girl is more or less a pariah. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Parents Monica and Frank more or less abandoned the children to fend for themselves well before the show even started, five years ago. 14 and trying to get pregnant: “Shameless” paints a bleak portrait of the sex lives of girls 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

But they return, with more or less good humor — for its subjects, says Suzy, the project is “like a bad book” that you nonetheless feel obligated to finish. ‘56 Up’: a compelling look at the gang settling into middle age 2013-02-07T22:44:11Z

This plot structure more or less requires that the chosen ones all have personal issues or secrets, and these characters certainly do. TV Review: CW’s ‘The Messengers’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

"But I more or less know where they came from." Russian pianist accused of child rape in Thailand 2010-07-07T12:57:00Z

It was just one of the many senseless, regrettable things that happened, was briefly noted and then more or less forgotten. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

It ought to feel satisfying, a relief from the constant anxiety of composition; but though the writing is more or less over, the anxiety has, if anything, increased. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z

When a long-running, culturally influential drama series comes to an end, you can more or less count on its heavy presence in the contenders list. "Game of Thrones," "Mrs. Maisel" rule the Emmy nominations — at the cost of "Better" Things 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

All interesting subjects have exactly five myths associated with them, never more or less. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

Monaghan showed up at that time as both a one-man chorus and a gravedigger, which in the world of those plays were more or less the same. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, often of the quasi-dissident variety, came more or less surreptitiously into the House’s possession in this fashion. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z

She's healthy again, more or less, but the months spent grappling with illness, and with writing about it, have cast a long shadow. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z

“The dance was more or less dead,” he said. From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Although I was allowed to eat more or less what I liked on my lunch break, I failed to register that the stuffed ham was special and off limits, and I indulged on several occasions. In This Corner of Maryland, Holidays Mean a Stuffed Ham 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

It was more or less why she cracked and started posting videos herself, she explains. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

The ability to catch the zeitgeist, to become indispensable to many people at more or less the same time—and, then, to remain so enduringly for many as well—is no mean feat. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

In a fascinating program consisting of pedagogical forms run more or less amok, he ended with a dazzling performance of Liszt’s 12 “Transcendental Études,” some of the most difficult music ever written for piano. Review: Kirill Gerstein Plays Liszt’s ‘Transcendental Études’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

I’m happy that Payless finally kept its word — more or less. Charged extra for my GPS — but Payless said it wouldn’t! 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

He’s spent the last half-century both rich and famous, more or less. At 75, Tom Jones has a new book, a new album — and a new take on life 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

All that is more or less what is happening on Facebook. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Red Dwarf the sitcom is, like Red Dwarf the spaceship, creaky, old, underpowered and more or less indestructible. TV review: Hunted; Red Dwarf 2012-10-04T22:00:01Z

Initially, Chabon thought he was going to write a sequel to 2012’s “Telegraph Avenue” set in more or less contemporary Oakland. Michael Chabon and his new novel, 'Moonglow' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But does having an insatiable poll habit actually make him feel more or less in control? It’s not you, Nate. It’s us. (And maybe a little you.) 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Yes, now that I reread certain passages, I have to concede that some of the dialogue seems to be lifted more or less verbatim from real-life conversations in my household.  Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

In the 20 years since, he’s more or less stayed true to his earlier vision, updating 1950s rock through an adult-contemporary lens. | July 11-17 : July 18 ? 24 2010-07-16T15:05:00Z

Dorothy thinks that people acting more or less normally in the face of climate change is “not evidence of stupidity or lack of care but some mixture of impotence and courage.” A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Egyptians; a river god vs. the mortals who want to sacrifice his beloved; and finally the arts vs. each other, more or less. Opera Lafayette celebrates 20th anniversary, and Rameau

“I’m asking myself if I’m going to get more or less nervous than usual because I can’t feed off an audience’s energy,” she says from her home in Los Angeles. Simone Porter, who made her Seattle Symphony debut at age 10, returns for a very different kind of concert 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

And so Friendsgiving became, in my life, more or less, the calm surrounding an inevitable storm. Friendsgiving Will Set You Free 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

I’m not sure my insatiable audiobook habit makes me more or less productive, but I can say that I no longer procrastinate on laundry folding. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

However, if standardized time was a fiction more or less driven by capitalism, it might be possible that atemporality is a fiction more or less driven by capitalism, as well. Living on Internet Time 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

That said, he did his job and everyone arrived at the gate more or less unharmed. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Has Rick Lost His Hold on the Group? 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Other writers and illustrators say they are going forward with the work they were already engaged in before the pandemic and trusting that their titles will eventually be published on schedule, more or less. Can Comic Books Survive the Coronavirus Era? 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

There are pastel drawings of drapery – Barocci made his own pastel sticks and more or less invented the genre – and finally rapid paintings on paper, to see how forms and faces look in oil. Barocci: Brilliance and Grace – review 2013-03-03T00:05:53Z

Now the two operate more or less as equals, with West having a hand in most of the production and Jay-Z taking a slightly larger share of the vocals on “Watch the Throne.” Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste 2011-08-08T21:59:00Z

While a lot certainly happened in it, most of it would be described as “chalk” in a sports tournament – i,e., each interaction plays out more or less as expected. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Did the Finale Surprise? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

This is more or less the house I lived in, when I was Carrie’s age. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“After this I shall have to say “goodbye”, more or less: I mean, I shall not forget you. Review | Before he dreamed up Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien let his imagination run wild as Father Christmas 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

It's best to come into "The Christmas Spirit" cold, more or less, to preserve the sweetness of the humor and the joyful twists. "Ghosts" star Rose McIver on poking fun at the Christmas movie, cultural appropriation and all 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Although Comedy Central hasn't set a premiere for its next 10-episode season, it's been renewed through 2022 and the channel is more or less keeping the lights on by heavily stripping repeats throughout the week. The "South ParQ Vaccination Special" fails to be funny – but maybe that's the point 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Scout, the book’s narrator, was believed to have been, more or less, Ms. Lee. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

You focus, rather, on the more or less refined execution of familiar conventions. 2010-02-15T06:00:00Z

When you searched for my name on Google, the first three pages were more or less mine. I share a name with the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" organizer 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Plays back then were collaborative productions, and a company of actors more or less directed themselves. In ‘Something Rotten!,’ if Music Be the Food of Farce, Play On 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

When the moody gentlemen of Interpol released their first album, “Turn On the Bright Lights,” in 2002, it entered the New York rock canon more or less instantly. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

So then we judged the brownies and I sort of more or less pushed him aside and told the world what I thought of the brownies. Ageism, affairs and Mexico Week: Getting personal with Prue Leith of "Bake Off" 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Any number of underdog stories begin this way and end with the underestimated parties triumphant, and this series more or less follows that structure. With "Maxxx," O-T Fagbenle subversively takes on pop culture's soft-serve cultural appropriation 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Social distancing was more or less impossible, but no less so than sitting in the bleachers at a Sounders game among a comparably sized crowd. Review: More than 20,000 country fans fill the Gorge for Watershed festival’s joyous, unbridled return 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

But the trauma of the war and sorrow over the dead lingers for its two main characters, who become part of each other’s lives, more or less as replacements. ‘Those Who Remained’ Review: Managing Unimaginable Grief 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

And yet everyone got what they wanted, more or less. How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The city finally cleared the area and created the neighborhood we more or less now know, with the courthouses and municipal buildings. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

These days, all the vegetables more or less tell the time of year. Bistrot Lepic review: The Georgetown bistro will make you forget 14th Street 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

For Neel's kind of portrait must have seemed more or less without precedent and still does. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

They just wanted to see and hear Sheen being more or less himself, like in all those TV interviews he's done since his life blew up this spring. Sheen's show gets makeover 2011-04-04T03:34:00Z

“I strongly suspect that his ‘magical powers’ were nothing more or less than the ability to utter basic truisms to the right person at the right time,” Bugliosi argues. The famous Manson true crime book, 'Helter Skelter,' reviewed in 1974 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s about her feckless parents, who more or less abandoned her. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

You certainly can’t say that about the ubiquitous packaged baby spinach that more or less wilts on contact with dressing. Add a Bit More Green to Your Fall Diet 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But even after more than 15 years in rural Virginia as a novelist who can send drafts to her editor more or less on her own schedule, she still seems like a reporter on deadline. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Jon’s debut goes more or less smoothly — not really, but nobody quits or winds up in the hospital — and he is invited to join the others at a recording session in Ireland. ‘Frank,’ About an Offbeat Band and Its Eccentric Leader 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Everyone has had ups and downs, and women in particular have more or less the same. Poof! Barbara Eden's 'Jeannie' Memoir Will Appear Next Year 2010-06-29T14:59:00Z

The same stations, tunnel-sizes, more or less the same elegant map, the same ritual journeys to work and play, the same low-level anxiety and occasional panic. Favourite pictures from London, You're Beautiful by David Gentleman 2012-07-26T10:52:27Z

Maureen is described as “an emotional lunatic from start to finish,” but all the characters seem more or less unhinged. Evan Cabnet Directs Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Poor Behavior’ 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

And from the look that has been on Vanessa’s face more or less permanently ever since, little that will follow has been easeful for her. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Vanessa's Sin and Obsession 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Now, the company is up and running more or less smoothly, with some 20 people employed. A Dating App for Three, Plus 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Good luck out there, the therapist concludes, more or less, with a smile. ‘Actual People’ Review: A Post-Grad Malaise 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

“It was more or less like being in death row in a penitentiary waiting on your turn,” one veteran says in a voice-over. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Cold Blue’ and D-Day Stories 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

A group show called “The Phantasm,” put together by the artist Robert McKenzie at Foxy Production, more or less does say that, but adds a few kinks to the domestic picture. Art in Review: ?THE PHANTASM? 2011-07-07T21:00:31Z

They’re served more or less in that order but without pauses between the courses, and the plates pile up in the middle of the table. The Extras Are the Stars on the Korean Menu at Atoboy 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

She caught the tail end of the Abstract Expressionism craze, and more or less kissed it goodbye, with Philip Guston and Franz Kline solos. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

As self-promotional ventures go, this is an effort of integrity and good will, and packs in a lot of spirited music that more or less sells itself. ‘Stay Prayed Up’ Review: Spreading the Gospel of Love 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Dreamliner delivered its few dozen passengers – including yours truly – to their destination more or less intact, even if some of us were not quite sure what day it was. I just took the world’s first 20-hour flight: Here’s what it did to me 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Although the plot mechanics are no more or less implausible than any such genre film. Review: In ‘Proud Mary,’ Taraji P. Henson Is a Hit Woman With a Soft Spot 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Both ends of that statement are true, more or less. Review: In ‘Chance,’ Hugh Laurie Returns as a Tormented Doctor 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

But his life, like everyone else’s, is more or less on hold. David Sedaris, Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

At first strongly disapproving, particularly when the death of Charlie Parker in her hotel suite attracted tabloid headlines, her family gradually became more or less reconciled to her activities. The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild – review 2012-06-01T21:52:01Z

Ms. Marciano, who grew up in Rome, acquired English more or less as her heroine Emma did, as a teenager infatuated with the language. Writing in English, Novelists Find Inventive New Voices 2014-04-25T12:00:01Z

“He said that on the stage, you hear more or less what’s around you,” he said. Glenn Dicterow Discusses Leaving New York Philharmonic 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

From the outside looking in, everything is more or less as it was before. Music: Now Letting His Guitar Do the Talking 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

California prisons are off-limits to writers and journalists, more or less. This Week in Fiction: Rachel Kushner on the World of California Prisons 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

She'd noticed that some editors tended to acquire books that arrived in a more or less complete state. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

His latest purchase more or less reassembles an original homestead owned by a family that was also named Cameron. ‘Avatar’ Director James Cameron Builds in New Zealand 2012-07-25T12:00:00Z

But then again, what’s a few minutes more or less when it seems as if you’ve already spent eternity up in the air? Could you endure the world’s longest nonstop flight? Find out who’s king of the long haul. 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Oh, you know — more or less the same. Review | Oscar keeps it shorter without a host, but something still needs to done about those speeches 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“A guy is more or less dependent on the women receiving his advances so if she is not interested, then tough luck for him,” Mr. Griffin said. Motherlode: After Class, Skimpy Equality ? Motherlode 2011-08-26T21:03:49Z

Bogus relics had, of course, long haunted church history, but this example more or less acknowledges what it is: a fake. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

And he said more or less the same thing in 2008, when he was running for vice president: “Look, folks, this is the most important election you’ve ever voted in your entire life.” Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

"America more or less hijacked Robin Hood at that point," says Thomas Hahn, a professor of English at the University of Rochester and Robin Hood scholar. Robin Hood's appeal tested again at Cannes 2010-05-12T01:41:00Z

As it must in any decent Austen adaptation, the story more or less takes care of itself, as the action shuttles between London and various country houses. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Rebirth Brass Band ended its full-throttle show at Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday night more or less swarmed, yielding the stage to an eager throng. Music Review: New Orleans Horns, Raw and Funky 2011-04-11T20:26:08Z

The first and most complex section has six short films playing more or less simultaneously. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

“But now, more or less, I got it.” At the Entrenched Met Museum, the New Director Shakes Things Up 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The idea’s a good one—but it remains a sketch of an idea, just as more or less all of the substance of “The Captain” does. Two Films About Nazis Show the Difference Between Engaging with History and Exploiting It 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

After two consecutive ceremonies shaped by the pandemic, the Primetime Emmys returned to what felt more or less like a pre-Covid format on Monday night. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” a diligent exhibition centering on 20th-century portraits and self-portraits of or by gay artists, is now at the Brooklyn Museum, and it is more or less intact. Art Review: ?Hide/Seek,? Portraits at the Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-17T23:28:42Z

Mostly Mozart is swiftly becoming, in other words, more or less indistinguishable from the Lincoln Center Festival. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

His brothers, he said, are no more or less radical than most Palestinians of their generation. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Writers know that a review is simply the opinion of a person more or less fit to deliver a verdict. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

Meanwhile Oenomaus is interrogated by the duplicitous and vicious Ashur, and Lucretia has returned to her old self, more or less. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z

And that's more or less the consensus that's agreed upon by the folks outside or critiquing and even some of the people inside. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

And even though she has starred in a deluxe assortment of romantic comedies, she is more or less correct. Cristin Milioti Is No One’s Accessory 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The drawings, sketchbooks and music and dance scores in the show tend toward stripped down, more or less abstract and usually black and white. Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Taken together, the three pledges invoke stages in the career of the typical, uncelebrated artist, from hopeful beginning to more or less frustrated maturity to death. ‘Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty,’ at MoMA PS1 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The film has it more or less right: a dark blue coat with silver frogging and braided epaulettes, partnered with skintight white breeches. Beau Brummell: friends without benefits 2012-10-05T13:12:00Z

Immediately “The Witcher” will either turn you on or turn you off for more or less precisely the same reasons. “The Witcher” is baffling to the uninitiated, but diehards swear by its throwback fantasy charms 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

“I started collecting wild bulbs more or less 15 years ago,” he said. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

This is why people who reach a certain level of fame can more or less behave as if they are bulletproof. Like it or not, it's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

You can more or less imagine the tone of what follows, right? Review: In ‘Of Good Stock,’ Alicia Silverstone Is a Sister in Distress 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

At 15, Taylor Johnson had to more or less look after herself. Meet the Unusual Director of the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“The whole thing was more or less settled in a matter of hours,” Mr. Crowe explained. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z

I was more or less familiar with the history there but not in a deep way. A Conversation With the Top Prize Winner of Cannes 2010-05-23T19:04:00Z

And they’ve been scrupulous about giving more or less equal time to the dominant trends of the last two years: abstract painting, performance, and political-art-that-isn’t-beauty-averse. Art Review | Whitney Biennial: At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking 2010-02-25T22:21:00Z

But Nicole does consult with Nora, and from the time of their first meeting Nora more or less dominates the rest of the film with her lethal effectiveness and wide-ranging insight. What’s Missing from the Brilliant “Marriage Story” 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

A casual but captivating album, it’s a heap of tracks recorded more or less recently at Mr. Nelson’s Pedernales Studio, between takes for other albums or during time off from the road. Releases From Ghostface Killah, Fred Hersch and More 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Sunday's premiere, at least, seemed to leave it more or less where it was. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Revenge' Reshuffles (and Tries New Haircuts) 2012-10-01T02:47:08Z

Life has more or less always been like this for Costanzo, a former child actor. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

He was, both women more or less say, a member of their families. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Its first sentence is “All this happened, more or less.” What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Professional writers with thoughtful sentences and well-composed paragraphs who came to more or less the same conclusion was another. Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post 2013-02-03T02:00:00Z

The modern approach to film titles crystallized, more or less, in 1955 with “The Man With the Golden Arm.” South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences 2010-03-09T23:25:00Z

If one person wants them as dry curds and the other person wants it more or less as a drink, fine. Nigella Lawson: "Cook for yourself. No one else is going to judge you." 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

I mean…this is more or less a “white pride” T-shirt… The 10 most trollish T-shirts ever sold 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Each film, more or less, takes on a different reverberation. In “Wind River,” Taylor Sheridan makes another new-looking western with a traditional spirit 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Afterward, she more or less finesses the photographer-or-sculptor question herself: The models are discarded; the pictures remain. Art in Review: Yamini Nayar: ‘An Axe for a Wing-bone’ 2013-12-05T21:41:19Z

That all makes for a fun dynamic that you don’t often see on television: a cop who doesn’t really want to help but is more or less forced to. Second Chance – Frankenstein-inspired cop procedural needs a jolt of life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

This worked, more or less, except for the time I asked where I could find another paper coffee cup and my correspondent answered: “I am so sorry, but there are no more cups.” Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, they enter South Korea more or less empty-handed. Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The production moves in such a stylized and fragmented way that the first third of this roughly 80-minute piece is more or less impenetrable. In 'Adler & Gibb,' the business of art — painted with familiar brushstrokes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Network is like a time machine: when it was released four decades ago this week it more or less accurately predicted the state of media as it is 40 years later. Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

By Saturday night Mr. Dyszel was more or less done with his entry, “Executive Decision.” Auteur Sprint: The 48 Hour Film Project 2010-06-08T23:01:00Z

First of all, I think all questions are more or less rhetorical questions. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

She wove back and forth between composers with little pause and with a more or less one-fits-all pianistic style that did indeed fit most. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

The elevator pitch for the new series “Wrecked” is that it’s a comedic version of “Lost,” which is more or less the case for the first episode or two. “Straight-up ‘Lord of the Flies’”: New series “Wrecked” is a funnier, darker “Lost” 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

That dynamic more or less informs all four plays I saw. Review: It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’ 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

The mild, kind-hearted humour and well-cushioned heartache of the first film are also more or less replicated. Streaming: To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You – the longed-for sequel lands 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

And that is more or less what you see onscreen: a parade of mostly pale males in dark suits marching through Cambridge. ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Review: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became ‘Notorious’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

I’m more or less in full love and acceptance of the people. Khalik Allah’s Movie Captures Harlem Faces and Voices by Moonlight 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

You feel that if you left them for a while, when you returned, they’d still be more or less frozen as they were before. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

This play more or less answers that,” he said. Anthony Hopkins: 'Every day I think about quitting' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Fallon was more or less a nonentity for the rest of the evening. Golden Globes: Lots of ‘La La’-dee-da, but a wake-up call from Meryl Streep 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Princess Diana, more or less from start to finish. The legacy of John Lennon 2010-09-25T23:33:00Z

But for a 7-year-old, a train seat is no more or less comfortable than a bed. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But what about store-bought pie dough: Is that more or less egregious than a jar of garlic? Is pre-minced garlic really such a bad thing? 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The Brit in the flannel shirt is Steve Rowe, the man who runs Marks & Spencer's food division; he is more or less the man who decides what middle England eats. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Confucius should have said: “Make sure your main ingredient Is more or less obedient.” Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Your kids will be able to watch the same movies they saw twice in theaters again and again, in more or less the same way. Film: 3-D Abounds, but What?s the Frenzy Really About? 2010-05-08T02:49:00Z

My second reaction, more or less on top of the first, was: seven days? The life-affirming legacy of my near-death experience 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Beyond this, artifice rules, with more or less interest. Art in Review: ?BEAUTIFUL VAGABONDS?: ?Birds in Contemporary Photography, Video and Sound? 2011-08-11T21:15:27Z

In the driest of all the essays, we get an academic discussion about plea bargains and whether they are more or less likely to be used in resolving federal death-eligible cases in death penalty states. What real lawyers think about Breaking Bad – and why it should be taught in class 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The mini — sorry, limited —series more or less follows the book's chronology, starting with a look at the last moments of a man who starts sweating and vomiting seconds after he comes into frame. Smart Watch: Ebola drama "The Hot Zone" has all the symptoms of a classic miniseries 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Might there not be fewer of these interfamilial crimes, honour killings, child abandonments, if nature had made us straightforwardly aware that urgencies more or less our own were being served in our propagating and nurturing? Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Everyone else — including the characters from the 1936 screwball comedy “My Man Godfrey,” seen briefly on Michael’s hotel room TV — has more or less the same face and speaks with the voice of Tom Noonan. In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The historical center of Venice divides the Lagoon more or less in half. Learning to Navigate the Venetian Lagoon Like a Pro 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

And everything in the gallery of short video clips is more or less wonderful. Art Review: Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney Museum 2010-07-08T21:49:00Z

How, in other words, does an argument become more or less momentous in a person’s memory? Dance Review: Alexandra Beller and Company at the Joyce SoHo 2012-04-09T21:06:04Z

It’s advertising the renowned bistro in Garmisch whose name isn’t printable here but begins with “Mukke” and ends with a word that more or less rhymes with it. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The problem is the zines became the blog, and more or less faded away. Lo-Fi lovers on other side of digital divide 2011-07-12T21:38:00Z

The tone is, more or less, “Augusten Burroughs Goes to the Clink.” Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z

Mixing originality and cliché, the play surveys the near impossibility of connection, a theme reflected in its structure, in which everyone, more or less alone onstage, speaks their truths into a void. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

They want change, not the status quo that the Clinton camp more or less offers. Hear this, Sanders supporters — you don’t need to back Hillary: You have every right to say “Bernie or bust” 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Blistering Bands and Bingo Along with innumerable other starry-eyed provincials, the Miser moved to New York more or less because of “downtown.” Weekend Miser: Ding Dong Lounge and Le Bingo! at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T20:10:16Z

Do you wish your kids would call you more or less? Mother’s Day exclusive: An interview with my mother 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he more or less transcribed the folk music into suitable pieces for the concert hall. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z

Both roles demonstrate that joining the “American Horror Story” company is more or less a crapshoot. ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’: Carny cornballs

This is hardly a confirmation, though; “if it’s in the talks, it might happen” is, as this self-styled Sex and the City 3 prognosticator knows, more or less what Parker’s been saying for years. Don't Get Too Excited, Fans: A Third Sex and the City Movie is a Stretch 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

In overlapping scenes, we learn that, while Dex was more or less honest, even in regard to his ambivalence about his coming marriage, Shellie was purveying her own American fiction. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The audience reacted more or less ways at the same points; it wasn't that different. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The stray buckshot that Matvey catches is just the opening flesh wound in his exchange of blows with Andrei, which more or less fills the running time. ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Review: Attempted Murder, but Make It Comedy 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Actually, the customer is more or less the same in New York and Istanbul,” she said. How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer 2012-11-09T19:30:40Z

History geeks will surely recognize Reed, York, Jon Colter and the rest as they follow the trail more or less of the 1804 expedition, bound for Oregon. Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

In three short years, Abramson managed to create a newsroom masthead that more or less reflected the gender ratio of the United States. New York Post: Jill Abramson fired for “systematically getting rid of male editors and replacing them with women” 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

It’s the de facto trailhead for a 40-mile hike through the Galilee region of Israel in the footsteps, more or less, of the man who made Galilee famous. Explorer: Hiking Through Biblical Backcountry 2012-06-22T15:21:54Z

The key texts of the Mass treated in musical settings are more or less invariable, representing firmly established beliefs — “the certainty from ritual,” as Banks put it. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

While the violin solos are most difficult in their fugues and implied counterpoint, he said, the cello works more or less keep multiple voices within the same line. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

By the time that I was 15 I had more or less tried everything there was to try. 'Any boy who tells you that he hasn't seen porn is lying. Porn changes what you expect from girls' 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Of course, there are ways to cut corners, but that’s more or less the minimum going rate. Why an Overseas Vacation Could Be Cheaper Than You Thought 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was a miserable time and I more or less left home at 16. Experience: I found my sister on a missing persons forum 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Was medicating myself more or less the same as medicating a tooth in pain? The Dentist Who Treated My Divorce 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

I spend the vast majority of ordinary, more or less hygienic days liquidating estates and buying and selling all manner of antiques and collectibles. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

Well, more or less: They also decided that one resident would always be the society’s custodian of collective memories and would, in time, pass this storehouse of remembrances on to the next Receiver. ‘The Giver’ Adapts Lois Lowry’s Novel 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The second season though, he was more or less like you. Ramy Youssef on highlighting anti-Blackness: "The conversation about race in America is very binary" 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

The past whispers its instructions to him, not via critical reflection or abstract speculation but through the things he’s already doing more or less automatically. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Most of the time, we see other people and the world as more or less simplified cartoons. Chuck Jones’s Animated Offspring in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

They’ve become appendages of our bodies, a modern communication tool that’s more or less a form of evolution, and the closest thing we have to a real-life soul in the digital era. The Music from Her Aims Big and Scores 2014-02-28T22:34:06Z

McVicar, for his part, referred to the opera as a soprano version of “Hamlet” because once Medea enters, she more or less never leaves the stage, in various states of distress and fury. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

This is a dynamic that Mr. Ocean more or less demolished. Review: Frank Ocean Transmits Intimacy on a Grand Scale 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Second, they are all, in my experience, more or less the same interchangeable, vaporous nonentity. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z

After his career was put on pause, he went back on the road, sold out arenas and remained, more or less, the most popular performer in country music. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The most comprehensive of these films to date, “Jobs,” tells the warts-and-all story of a driven computer revolutionary, the late Steve Jobs, who more or less abandoned his family to fulfill his dreams. ‘Jobs’: An inside look at a computer revolutionary 2013-08-15T19:24:04Z

Bankes, a good friend of Byron, was travelling and living in Italy, more or less in exile because of his penchant for men, uniforms and parks. Cracking the Tintoretto code 2010-06-09T06:23:00Z

But as demonstrated by the season two premiere, which aired July 13, the two main characters aren’t the only ones whose actions are backed up by truth — more or less. The Reality Behind That (Literally) Shocking Masters of Sex Scene 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

While most books and films about this hermetic regime try to peel away the scrim of party-line misinformation, “The Juche Idea” does more or less the opposite: it co-opts the language of North Korean agitprop. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z

She fell into journalism more or less by accident, covering Milan for Harper’s Bazaar, The International Herald Tribune and Wallpaper magazine, for which she is now editor at large. Cheerleading for Milan 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Therefore, "I take this as more of an appreciation for the gentle turning of the years for someone who's enormously grateful for being able to breathe more or less freely in a totally insane world." New Year honours: Actors take centre stage as Cowell and Forsyth miss out 2010-12-31T00:05:14Z

On that show, she became a leader more or less by accident. In ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

I decide, more or less at random, to paint “Lakeside Path,” a shimmering vernal tableau which falls almost exactly halfway through “Painting With Bob Ross.” Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The next day he repeated more or less the same spiel before Terry Semel, co-chairman of the board of trustees and a former chairman of Warner Brothers and Yahoo. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z

At times I found myself thinking that the four leads could have randomly switched roles, and the impact of the production would have been more or less the same. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z

“I was 30, my biological clock was more or less ticking, and my parents were back living in St. Louis,” said Ms. LaRocca, who is now 37. Finding Love at Starbucks, With the Help of 84-Year-Old Cupids 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

About five years after the concert Paul Robeson more or less retired. Singer Robeson's granddaughter recalls fight against racism 2014-05-07T01:23:34Z

At one point, he more or less hibernates for three days in a snow hole, unable to find the house in a blizzard. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z

Carroll asked, more or less, ‘Why are you spending millions of dollars on a tiny guy with a bum arm?’ Even a Mets fan can be optimistic on Opening Day 2013-04-04T16:12:00Z

In the most general sense, exactly what you’d expect: that the storyline is continuing, more or less following the settings and characters used in the source books by George R.R. The New 'Game of Thrones' Cast Is Keeping the Faith in Westeros 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

“He was more or less a contemporary of people like Zukerman and Perlman, and he scorned the beauty of their sound.” Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Or more or less anything to do with technology. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z

That’s more or less what Common took Drake to task for on “Sweet,” from his new album, in which he effectively called him soft. Critic?s Notebook: Social-Minded Hip-Hop Makes a Comeback 2011-12-21T19:58:04Z

Then, I’m more or less happy about what I’m doing.” David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

A key example was the little town growing up, more or less by itself, behind Fort Pitt on the strategic point at the Ohio headwaters, gateway to the West. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

I’ve learned over the years, traveling, that I more or less never enjoy a place the first day that I’m there. What It’s Really Like to Be an Airline Pilot 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Unlike “Frozen,” which spiked the formula with genuine surprise, “Moana” unfolds more or less as expected. Review: ‘Moana,’ Brave Princess on a Voyage With a Chicken 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

He was staying in Midtown, near where the show was playing, and that was more or less that: too far. Encounters : Samuel Barnett Discusses His Female Roles in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Richard III’ 2014-02-12T22:47:55Z

The musicians — essentially playing themselves in re-enactments of events that more or less really happened — are focused much of the time on practical matters. | 'No One Knows About Persian Cats': Indie Rock in Iran in Bahman Ghobadi?s New Work 2010-04-16T01:56:00Z

“It was just sitting there, more or less abandoned,” he says. T Magazine: Sand Castle 2011-09-19T14:00:51Z

Mr. Stewart’s finale also included, as is now more or less required in these things, a salute to his backstage staff. Jon Stewart Cements His Legacy in ‘Daily Show’ Finale 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The scrupulous review of a nonexistent book—a genre more or less invented by Jorge Luis Borges—was utterly suited to Lem’s ludic sensibility, and he took the form to exhilarating extremes. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

He was more or less forgotten, except by a small group of devotees. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

But with the arrival of its third Manhattan store — more or less replacing the Greene Street shop that closed in 2009 — and some recent strokes of marketing wisdom, Agnès b. is taking another stab. Critical Shopper: A Bid to Recapture the Sleight of Hand 2011-04-20T18:14:35Z

“We know what it’s going to cost more or less to build it, to staff it,” he continued. With $125 Million Gift, Met Museum Jump-Starts New Modern Wing 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But for directors it’s more or less irrelevant. Two Excellent Independent Films: “Wild Canaries” and “Young Bodies Heal Quickly” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Polls indicate a country more or less divided over how to prevent another school shooting. Can neuroscience help settle the gun control debate? 2014-01-09T13:45:00Z

Specifically researchers found a link between academic performance and something called sleep efficiency, which is more or less how well you sleep at night. For Better Grades, Let Your Kids Sleep More 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lives are lost and saved, vitals checked, brows furrowed, turfs protected and glasses clinked in “Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor,” which is more or less what its title announces. Review: ‘Hippocrates’ Offers Life, Death and Teachable Moments 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, Usher more or less concedes this record forays into a new musical sphere, and much of the record is storytelling from a fictional standpoint, rather then a personal diary. Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z

We might see our idol, more or less persuasively impersonated by a hard-working actor, strumming a guitar or noodling at a piano, but the complicated labor of creativity is notoriously hard to show on screen. Review: ‘Love & Mercy’ Gets Inside Brian Wilson’s Head 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s more or less a bucket list thing, to come to somebody’s famous auction and just to be in the room and actually have a chance to bid on something,” he said. They Came for a Piece of the Rockefeller Mystique. They Mostly Came Up Empty. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

This latest collection is in many ways its complement, for it includes four works for ensemble composed over more or less the same period as the quartet pieces. Posadas: Oscuro Abismo de Llanto y de Ternura; Glossopoeia; Nebmaat; Cripsis ? review 2011-01-20T22:40:01Z

Yes, there are guys, girls, guns and sex, all more or less promised by those two doublings, and if they’re not the hallmarks of great action-thriller cinema, then they come pretty close. Lethal weapons: Shane Black's pulp fiction is still the best action around 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s that the titan institutions remain more or less inaccessible to them while they are still alive.” These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Eventually, “The Box” more or less abandons the fable, veering toward “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Little Red Riding Hood” for inspiration. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z

Her sentences flow, her people seem real, her plots more or less cohere. Review: ‘The Dark Dark,’ Beguiling Tales of Women in Metamorphosis 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“Going Into the City” tells Mr. Christgau’s story, from his childhood in Queens up through, more or less, the day The Village Voice’s new owners pushed him out in 2006. Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Hawkins, who more or less single-handedly turned the tenor sax into a jazz soloist’s heavy weaponry in the nineteen-twenties, is roaring, robust, and good-humored. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

All domestic dramas more or less plop us down into other people’s homes. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Part of the Family 2012-06-12T15:16:46Z

Not a day goes by when they don’t tell me, more or less subtly, that I belong to the past. Elena Ferrante: ‘Dreaming of a return to the past is a denial of youth’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

I was told that I could do more or less whatever I wanted — within reason. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

He then set sail with five other men, four Norwegians and a Swede, who in the movie register as more or less indistinguishable sunburned blonds. Movie Review: ‘Kon-Tiki,’ Directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg 2013-04-25T23:28:56Z

For half its length, the piece was accompanied by a video conceived after the fact by the artist Lu Yang and more or less based on Japanese anime, though not animated. Review: The Philharmonic Focuses on Female Composers 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

"We've been talking about it over the last 6 months or so -- more or less, it's definitely been in the works for a while." Bidding is hot in Justin Bieber hair auction 2011-02-24T18:11:17Z

In Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited, he contributed a number of highly personal and more or less autobiographical pieces, of which "A Christmas Tree" is one. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

Monitoring the pickup from Langley, Agent Lacey must be pleased that Aaron more or less voluntarily gives himself a colonic. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The midday pause was more or less unstructured, with players working foosball tables and PlayStations under the light supervision of young counselors. Summer Soccer Camp, Europe-Style 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

I soon learned that Frédéric was in his third and final year of novitiate, having arrived on a journey through the Middle East several years before and more or less staying put. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z

Encountering Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor on a program of otherwise more or less explicitly Jewish works at Bargemusic on Friday, then, seemed like the setup for a strained exercise in historical revisionism. Music Review: Jewish Themes, and Mendelssohn, at Bargemusic 2010-06-27T21:03:00Z

“He’s more or less exactly the same. His greatest trait is his empathy.” Cooper Hoffman discovers that, like his dad, he’s an actor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Producing an anthology series that is fresh and more or less consistent in quality is not easy. The "Amazing Stories" reboot doesn't live up to its name, but it doesn't have to 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

As knowing about restaurants like that is more or less my job, I’d like to blame it all on Covid and move on. Goodbye New Zealand, Hello World 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

It takes you to some disturbing places and leaves you comfortably more or less where you started, but feeling just a little better about yourself. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

For about a decade before, he'd been more or less exclusively working with the great playwright Harold Pinter. Douglas Hodge gets nosy in 'Cyrano' on Broadway 2012-10-10T12:37:08Z

My work and my life are more or less the same thing, and I never consider that the work is something different,” she said. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

Yet I took the suggestion in a practical, even utilitarian way, and thought of movies that I watch, more or less, to kick back, in a familiar and even a familial sense. Choosing the Best American Movies 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Jerome K Jerome is more or less forgotten now. Summer journeys: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 2013-07-16T15:52:40Z

Possible, basically, only in the 1980s, after the movements had more or less subsided and capitalism and jokey white paternalism ran wild. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

By more or less flattening it, you get the chicken to cook more evenly. Grilled chicken: How to get it perfect

To say that’s what “Ghost Quartet” does is a more or less accurate but far from complete description of its inebriating effect. Dave Malloy's ‘Ghost Quartet’ at the Bushwick Starr 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The president now has his own air force of drone assassins to dispatch more or less anywhere on the planet to take out more or less anyone. The real face of Washington (and America): It can happen here — in fact, it did 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But it hadn't changed yet when I made my exit, more or less. "I'm not getting over violence against women": Rebecca Solnit discusses her new anti-memoir 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Seinfeld” was not a show about nothing, as that misleading formulation has it; it was about how everything is more or less meaningless. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

At 43, I fall more or less right into the statistical middle and I’ve acted accordingly. My Gen X Hillary problem: I know why we don’t “like” Clinton 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Rather, Mona sees Shola more or less as movie-viewers do, and Gerima shows a complex society in which enslaved Africans, despite the horrors and pressures that they endure, actively develop a society in exile. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Each has a more or less allegorical function: The narrator is the puppet master, while the central consciousnesses are those of his creations, mainly Alain, but barely differentiated, who look up to this “master.” ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Because there's so many detective stories about obsessive people who are brilliant detectives because of their obsessiveness and my experience with obsessiveness has been more or less the complete opposite. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The second one more or less repeated the original plot in Bangkok with even more extreme jokes. The Hangover Part III – review 2013-05-25T23:04:00Z

He had no family and so we were it for him, more or less. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

This brought data for just under 5,700 overtakes, more or less evenly split between the seven outfits. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

In other words, the big-gun halls and orchestras are still more or less on summer break, so the blossoming performances these first weeks of September bring a fantastic concentration of the new and unusual. Classical Music This Week: Kosugi, a New Old Stravinsky and Arvo Pärt at 80 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Facebook itself says that the sort of content currently filling the site is no more or less newsy than it ever is. Facebook’s Change of Face 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

You were saying like you more or less just remade it, but there's the interpretation of it through a cultural lens is what changes a lot of the feeling about it. "Scenes from a Marriage" boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: "I have to fight for her" 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

The three zinfandels I suggest you look for this month more or less encompass the range of styles: In Zinfandel, Brawn Wins Out 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Nothing in the new design is likely to make it any more or less apparent. Subtle changes make a big impression at the National Gallery East Building 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Thomas Crawford, the orchestra’s music director, chose to lead them more or less passively from the harpsichord, flagging the occasional cadential slowdown. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Plays Bach at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-28T23:05:18Z

Ms. Williams said her role — which deals with the black experience — was more or less left up to her to define. Don’t Box Them In. Their Dancing Belongs to the World. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

“You, along with your beloved Alan, were the epitome of Nadia Boulanger’s belief that ‘an artist can never be more or less than they are as a human being,’” he tweeted. Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Herman, a stout, excitable man who runs for Parliament on a more or less overt platform of bribery and extortion, likes to wear dresses that evoke Mae West by way of Divine. Movie Review: ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres 2013-07-18T16:01:22Z

That opening scene is taken more or less directly from a dream he had, and an ongoing frustration. "Breeders" feels your parenting pain and cusses right along with you 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s possible to forget this far down the road, but Varys was more or less serving as a spy in Robert Baratheon’s small council, feeding information back to supporters of House Targaryen. Game of Thrones Watch: Dead Lords and Monsters 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Throughout, he stresses the huge role in this empire of "more or less organised violence", whether meted out to rival armies, or indigenous peoples, or ecosystems. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z

A FEW years ago, more or less out of the blue, I began to take my daughter, Hattie, to dance performances. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Paula Deen has, I would say, taken an irreparable hit because she had this appearance of being more or less a nice older woman who cooks food that's bad for you. N-word controversy: Is Paula Deen done for? 2013-06-25T20:19:18Z

Mocking was more or less as bad as nobody getting the point. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mirren said she found herself more or less in agreement. ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z

Everyone else more or less pretends that he is not. Theater Review: ?Tribes,? by Nina Raines, at the Barrow Street Theater 2012-03-05T03:00:00Z

“Just turn the lights off,” he pleaded, as he emerged from half-shadow to address, more or less, the president’s abrupt firing of FBI director James B. Comey. Perspective | Don’t cry for Spicer. His tenure was a disaster from Day One and he should have quit immediately. 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The movie more or less recovers, settling into its lively groove, even if the Flash remains a curiously uncertain presence. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

I met someone like Dennis who is more or less atypical of art directors. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z

But many of the black residents leaving Detroit ended up in the surrounding suburbs, which had been more or less entirely white when I was growing up. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Mark Binelli on His Book 'Detroit City Is the Place to Be' 2012-12-05T19:36:36Z

But it was, more or less, fashion’s last public expression of sympathy as the Paris attacks were scarcely mentioned in the days that followed. Talk Stays Light at Men’s Runway Shows, but Signs of Paris’s Sorrow Linger 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

We’re writing more or less the same amount; he just piled them in one book while I sliced them up into eight. John Scalzi on writing great big books 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

One ingredient that has more or less disappeared, at least in the first four episodes, is the use of torture as a reliable way to get information, a frequent target of “24” critics. Review: In ‘24: Legacy,’ Jack Bauer’s Gone. The Demons Are the Same. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The Williams recordings were released 60 years after the singer’s death, at which point any expectation of new material had been more or less extinguished. Pink Floyd’s Endless River Is Just the Latest Album to Recycle Old Material 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The subject matter was unorthodox for the times, being for the most part scenes from the Old Testament, with more or less explicit references to the world of Freemasonry. Review: A Forgotten Master's Irreverence 2010-05-28T16:00:00Z

But subject matter, too, comes to bear on the look of a series, and more or less presupposes that it differ visually from the kinds of shows that preceded it. Aesthetic excellence: how cinematography transformed TV 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Patrons who venture to the show at Joe’s Pub on Thursday night may find themselves constituting a different class entirely: audience members who were more or less ordered to couple up by the performer. ?Never Sleep Alone? Leads to Audience Relationships 2011-11-30T22:45:03Z

The novel turns into a more or less traditional police procedural, that is, and the resolution is violent but predictable. Books of The Times: ‘Gun Machine,’ by Warren Ellis 2013-01-02T21:35:39Z

The railroads established towns, spacing them out more or less evenly along three parallel lines, which today hew to the three main roads in this corner of the state: U.S. In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

He studied art for his one year of high school, then more or less taught himself painting, collage-making, photography and video. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z

But Oller’s story is not so clearly told by an exhibition that mixes his works with so many others that are more or less compelling in their own right. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The primary flaw is his seeming indifference to the physicality of painting, as he more or less said in a recent article, but that may be changing. Review: ‘Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Instead, they right themselves and more or less soldier on, though with sagging shoulders. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

At around 3 in the morning on Saturday, near the end of Robin Schulz’s 90-minute set at Webster Hall, he looked, more or less, like the archetypical superstar D.J. aspirant. Robin Schulz Plays Webster Hall’s Girls & Boys Party 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

This is more or less the point of George Orwell’s “1984,” of course. What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Last summer, No. 28 existed in more or less its original form. Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z

I know of women – successful, midlife, single women – who have more or less settled for phone sex as the relationship part of their lives. An erotic email sets Stella thinking about the relationship with Bill 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

The creep's pattern remains more or less the same: Taunting verbal abuse to nubile high school girls over the phone, sometimes climaxed by the phrase, "This is the last person you'll ever gonna see alive." "Scream 4" more of the same, but fans won't mind 2011-04-13T20:42:22Z

“Something Rotten!,” which opens Wednesday, is about a pair of brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, Elizabethan-era playwrights who are more or less learning on the job. In ‘Something Rotten!,’ if Music Be the Food of Farce, Play On 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

If you remember the first “Footloose,” you know more or less what happens, and you may find some of the alterations amusing. | 'Footloose': ?Footloose? Remake, With Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid 2011-10-13T15:43:03Z

That’s why I’ve been able to successfully market shows about stables of rich ladies in cities across the country, all eager to claw out each others’ eyes, more or less continuously since 2006. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

It isn’t an espionage story at all, but a more or less traditional English mystery, in which the temporarily inactive spy investigates a murder at a boys’ school. ‘The Night Manager’ Brings John le Carré Back to the Small Screen 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

But I also know that when I was a child, grown-ups were more or less exempt from ridicule. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Geddes, who is from Australia, more or less backed into her vocation. Anne Geddes Was the Original Baby-Picture Influencer 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

After two years of nonstop touring and promotion for that album, a stretch that put him squarely in Nashville’s top tier and set him up for a wider breakout, he more or less hit eject. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Brooks has chosen a dauntingly broad topic—more or less, what it might mean to live a conscious and virtuous life. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

“In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities,” he said. Guillaume Canet Directs His First English-Language Film 2012-08-17T20:01:51Z

That’s Kevin Spacey, the benefactor and, more or less, the focus of this entertaining documentary — entertaining for a select audience, which pretty much means fans of theater or Mr. Spacey, or both. Movie Review: ‘NOW’ Chronicles a Traveling Production of ‘Richard III’ 2014-05-01T23:01:24Z

Yes, Cordova used a lighting company called Phil Lumen, and that more or less means “love of light” in Latin if you stop to notice. Books Of the Times: ‘Night Film’ Is Marisha Pessl’s New Novel 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z

The program, given half to Shakespeare and half to Cervantes, offered dramatic readings from their works interspersed with performances of period songs and dances, more or less related. Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 Perform in ‘Shakespeare and Cervantes’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The two cases more or less concerned the same issue. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Later that morning, while taking a dip in the communal swimming pool, she meets Mali, a “Thai or Eurasian” woman about her age, “30 more or less.” On the Lam in Bangkok, With a Suitcase Full of Cash 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Q: Having written the book, do you like him more or less? Exploring Robert De Niro's enigmatic playbook 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Noufel, meanwhile, shares similar feelings of detachment, but his existence remains more or less static. Netflix's "I Lost My Body" will have you rooting for a severed hand 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

People talk about luxury — and fashion is more or less expensive — but it is nevertheless democratic.” | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

But the actual city — its people, neighborhoods, parks and streetscape — is another thing, more or less a part of a president’s daily life, frequently neglected but rarely the direct target of executive violence. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Michael Fuller, a double bassist in the orchestra, said that Rouvali’s interactions with them are more or less nonverbal, so closely attuned are they to each other. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

And “Unsane,” shot on an iPhone, was presented in proportions the director more or less invented because he thought they looked the best. The Movie Is Opening Wide. The Screen Is Changing Shape. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Singers, who may not even speak each other’s language, are more or less thrown together and told to act like lovers. Romeo and Juliet, Flushed and Feverish at the Met Opera 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

And for about a year I actually was at the point where I could look at a page in French and feel like I was understanding what it was saying, more or less. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z

They're two different worlds: here I have mobile signal more or less everywhere. The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . . 2011-03-24T22:30:03Z

Objectively, there was less reason to trust Brian Williams as a person, but practically, there was no real reason to trust NBC’s news any more or less. Why Brian Williams Lost His Job, and Why He Has a New One 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Dressed more or less as an angel, Beyoncé sang the gospel standard "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," surrounded by men in white suits holding their hands up. Grammys 2015 was a low-wattage affair 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

She hugs the waitresses at a local restaurant and talks to more or less every person sitting at the bar. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

“He more or less invented the use of music the way we’re now used to, and at home with,” said Jagger. Game of Thrones to return in April as HBO unveils new shows 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Will more eclectic be more or less sellable? Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z

Socially conscious hip-hop was a viable career choice then, a tradition that’s been more or less killed, rendered irrelevant with hip-hop’s pervasive crossover success. Critic?s Notebook: Social-Minded Hip-Hop Makes a Comeback 2011-12-21T19:58:04Z

Austria-Hungary was more or less destroyed as a military power, increasingly dependent on Germany to stay in the fight. A most terrible year 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

We see the family’s disintegration in flashback: Galen, his wife and little Jyn are living, simply, as farmers, more or less. Review: Efficient and Gray, 'Rogue One' Gets the Job Done 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Which is, Mr. Sivan said, more or less exactly what it was. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

She knows more or less what she wants to do, but the way it will manifest is up in the air. When the Dancers Have to Miss the Last Dance 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Several famous scenes from the movie are more or less filmed anew before us; the digital video is dazzlingly pristine, and it’s fun to watch the wry comic impersonations of the original performances.. Review: Beat a New Path Down a Familiar Yellow Brick Road in ‘Elements of Oz’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In several of her photographs, the owners are dwarfed by their more or less monstrous charges. The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

The more or less good guys and the more or less bad guys often share a joking camaraderie, and everyone is sympathetic in some degree, however small. Television Review | 'Justified': On FX, an Elmore Leonard Lawman in Kentucky 2010-03-15T21:40:00Z

However The Bigger Pictures fares on the big night, Jacobs plans to start work on the new film "more or less immediately" when she gets back from Hollywood. Oscars hopeful hits funding target 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

This phenomenon isn't an ugly aberration: it's more or less what you'd expect. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

This isn't a foolproof method because it's pretty unreliable and more or less subjective. How to pick a watermelon 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

We all have stuff; it’s just more or less apparent. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If you give up on the friend zone, is that winning, or quitting? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

For four seasons, while playing Dr. Naomi Bennett in the ABC series “Private Practice,” she more or less disappeared from music. Audra McDonald at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-24T00:22:08Z

The lyrics of "Try That in a Small Town" are shallow, but no more or less foolish and paranoid than the nightly ravings on Fox News or the lies of Donald Trump's speeches. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

“I think I more or less said to him, ‘OK great, we’re going to be best friends, then,’” Ms. Chen said. He Said (I Do), She Said (I Do) 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z