The phrase "a better sort of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a higher quality or more desirable category of something.
Example: "She prefers a better sort of wine for special occasions."
Alternatives: "a superior type of" or "a higher quality of".
What's required instead is a better sort of centrist.
He was no longer the outsider.In an interview a few years ago Harry Oppenheimer said he had tried to build a "better sort of society and a better sort of country".
"There is nothing I long for more intensely," he once said, "than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky.
But simply bombing areas when the emerging powers prove bloodthirsty, and hoping that a better sort of power replaces them, isn't very promising.
Trotskyism's big idea was to hold out for a better sort of revolutionary left, under the leadership of Leon Trotsky himself.
But the West's superiority never lay just in its capacity to make more or bigger toys; we were also supposed to be a better sort of place.
But recently she began to sense a different, better sort of sexual change in the air: she noticed that Donald Rumsfeld had become a sex symbol.
It trained a spotlight on Rio's poverty and inequality.Sixteen years later Santa Marta is once again a showcase, but of a better sort.
Contemporary historian William Camden observed of the northern English and the Scots, "there is not a man amongst them of a better sort that hath not his little tower or pile", and many tower houses seem to have been built as much as status symbols as defensive structures.
He was without a university degree or even an Abitur, the better sort of German high-school diploma; whether he had the sort of technical skills that distinguished Edward Snowden is not clear, but the fact that he was caught because he sent an unencrypted Gmail message to the Russian consulate offering to sell them documents makes it seem less likely.
To avoid this catastrophe, Stevens should train his frontline officers, the senior partners in GP practices and hospital consultants, to be leaders, motivated to take the mutinous trolls into a different and better sort of world.
