Sentence examples for I assumed rather from inspiring English sources

My background was from the more challenging end of the spectrum, so I assumed, rather naively, that I could be a useful "critical friend".

I'm not sure what the sanction would have been had I turned out to have one; a course of antibiotics and being sent to the back of the queue, I assume, rather than deportation.

But, watching the news at the beginning of the week about the death of Cilla Black, I felt that the BBC assumed rather too little knowledge, as the on-screen news wire on the BBC News Channel informed us throughout the evening that "singer Sir Paul McCartney said it was a privilege to know and love her".

The question now is how likely it is that such novelty would have evolved independently in these two assumed rather distantly related arthropod groups, i.e. is due to convergent evolution (discussed below).

The six move through their rondelay without credible motive, their various attractions assumed rather than explained.

The love between Sonny and Carol, which might violate the rules against workplace fraternization, is assumed rather than dramatized.

Charles's practice of writing regularly to ministers was an "innovation", "something he has assumed rather than inherited".

If there was a more political aspect to the Italians' works, it was ambiguous, assumed rather than expressed.

Their positions are simply assumed – rather than widely scrutinised for flaws or contradictions – and politicians and public opinion adjust accordingly.

Then… well, then it just repeats, and will until diversity is assumed rather than accommodated by society.

But the movie's humor is dissipated by its slow pace and static scenes, and its emotional payoff is assumed rather than earned.