The British squash player Peter Nicol - who has represented Scotland and England - has a level of success that would have made Tim Henman not so much a superstar as a national god.
But instead of rethinking the shape of the drama to suit the format, the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, has taken a small, simplistic plot, filled a couple of lonely roles with flat performers, and marooned them in the midst of a spectacle that is not so much a movie as a demonstration.
And they are doing so not so much as a favor to the people, but mainly at the behest of financial markets.
The reason appears to be not so much a grand conspiracy as a diffuse one.
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The tax was put into place not so much as a revenue raiser but as a proper sin tax.
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The armed forces now talk a lot about flexibility, though this is not so much a voguish notion as a reflection of the difficulty of imagining threats to a country that is almost instinctively pacifist.
He was not so much a visionary as a personification of the collective unconscious.
The event at Kingsmill was not so much a retreat as an intervention.
The book is not so much a narrative as a series of snapshots of Brazil and its footballing obsession.
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The Colorado presented not so much a threat as a huge opportunity: water to support an economic boom in the American West.
The site is not so much a community as a meta-community, a collection of many different groups of people with similar interests.
Thatcher, which is not so much a portrayal as an inhabitation.
It is not so much a forecast as it is a gut feeling with some educated inferences and a whole lotta real experience to back them up.
The result is not so much a ride as another thrill sport that fits perfectly with skiing, one that has excitement, challenge and even a bit of exercise.
They point out that what is being planned is not so much a cut as a small reduction on what the Pentagon had been planning to spend over the next four to five years.
His suburbia is not so much a place as a kind of pragmatic resistance to the diktats of urban planners and architects, as well as to the stuffy preservation lobby that rules much of village England.
This is not so much a political as an aesthetic flaw: In the classic movies about Elizabeth I, for instance, you knew why you were watching the movie, why she was its subject, and how she changed history.
She told him (and the rabbits that sometimes surreptitiously accompanied the riders) that people were becoming more and more unbalanced: studies had proved it, which led the psychiatrist to conjecture that perhaps mental instability was not so much a disease as a stratum of normality, just below the surface of normality as it was commonly conceived.
But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.
After 20 months as Railtrack's chief executive, Gerald Corbett seems not so much a determined visionary as a man struggling to gain control of his company.
As such, what our economy is going through is perhaps not so much a new normal as a different normal.
Explaining his ways of engaging with the body, Mr. Othoniel says he came of age, in the wake of the AIDS crisis, as not so much a "political" artist as a "poetical" artist "between poetic and politic, " said Mr. Othoniel.
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Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.
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The muddled income-tax system, you see, and this week's garbled changes to it, are a subterfuge: not so much prudence for a purpose as complexity for the cause, ho ho.
This is not so much a gangster movie as an extended, elaborate allusion to one.
Nanotechnology is not so much a new science as an approach to solving engineering problems.
Not so much a coherent movie as a triptych of related tales, two of them dangerously static.
Unfortunately, what this economy needs is not so much a fine tuning as a set of jumper cables.
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