meaning of a sentence Does "caricatures embody an artist’s vision; but it is not just the uniqueness of the creator’s vision that matters as much as how the drawing reveals some inner truth of the s

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meaning of a sentence Does "caricatures embody an artist’s vision; but it is not just the uniqueness of the creator’s vision that matters as much as how the drawing reveals some inner truth of the subject." mean... "caricatures embody an artist’s vision; but only the uniqueness of the creator’s vision is not enough to reveal the inner truth of the subject"? what is the role of "as much as" here grammatically?

May 6, 2015 6:43 PM

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the second one is a bit confusing for me, so I'd say that no they're not the same. If we simplify it to: It's not just X that matters as much as Y Here Y is given importance over X, but X still matters So in your example, 'how the drawing reveals some inner truth of the subject' is more important than 'the uniqueness of the creator’s vision.'

May 6, 2015

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