Example sentences of "never more so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 2 | THE Government has a clever knack of stealing other people 's clothes , never more so than in its espousal of ‘ active citizenship ’ as a desirable virtue . |
| 3 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 4 | Camp knows and takes pleasure in the tact that desire is culturally relative , and never more so than when , in cathecting contemporary style , it mistakes itself , and the style , for the natural . |
| 5 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 6 | His character was , however , memorably impassive — never more so than when the chokingly tearful Miss Bergman purrs , ‘ Oh , Victor , please do n't go to the underground meeting tonight . ’ |
| 7 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 8 | BRIAN SHAW , the former leading male virtuoso dancer in the Royal Ballet , who has died aged 63 , was a meticulous and suave performer , never more so than as the male partner in the Bluebird pas de deux in Sleeping Beauty . |
| 9 | Throughout the postwar period , Yugoslavia has been short of foreign exchange , and never more so than in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Never more so than in the case of those which are sick and injured , including wild animals . |
| 11 | For all his determination to break the mould , Vincent was in a sense always typically Dutch , and never more so than in his obstinacy . |
| 12 | Blackmail has always loomed large in intelligence work , but never more so than today . |
| 13 | Subject matter can often be fleeting — never more so than when on holiday . |
| 14 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 15 | It is always a pleasure to go to Goldsmiths ' Hall , and never more so than for this event when the stately rooms provide the perfect background for contemporary work . |
| 16 | But adverse planetary influences invariably serve a useful purpose — and never more so than right now . |
| 17 | But the story is made more vivid by judicious descent into detail , never more so than when identifying individual residents of Broad Street , Ludlow , in a painting of 1765 . |
| 18 | And never more so than recently in Switzerland on holiday with Jack , and friends Julia and Gerry . |
| 19 | Water holds a fascination for everyone , but never more so than when it is moving . |
| 20 | Maybe never more so than when she accompanied a group of cadets training for officership on a ten-day campaign in remote rural areas . |
| 21 | But work is a firm bonder , and never more so than when a task is both fascinating and absurdly difficult . |
| 22 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 23 | At the same time , and never more so than in the 1860s and 1870s , every secondary sexual characteristic was grotesquely overemphasised : men 's hair and beards , women 's hair , breasts , hips and buttocks , swelled to enormous size by means of false chignons , culs-de-Paris , etc . |
| 24 | And never , never more so than , of course , working on the sword stand . |
| 25 | Never more so than that ! |