Sentence examples for a certain rather from inspiring English sources

But there are passages as fine as anything he wrote, and it also reveals a certain, rather charming, youthful vulnerability".

Instead, I'll say that it would have been nice if a certain rather high-profile reviewer (who will remain unnamed) had managed, in his otherwise splendid review, to avoid giving away a major plot twist.

The basic contention of Russell's theory of descriptions is that a proposition containing a definite description is not to be regarded as an assertion about an object of which that description is a name but rather as an existentially quantified assertion that a certain (rather complex) property has an instance.

On the other hand, there is a certain rather worrying circularity to it: monogamous heterosexual marriage is the best way to transmit the habits that make monogamous heterosexual marriage possible, which is clearly necessary because monogamous heterosexual marriage is what we know.

The first incompleteness theorem tells us that in any consistent formal theory whose theorems are recursively enumerable and which entails a certain (rather limited) amount of arithmetic, there will be an arithmetical sentence such that neither it nor its negation is provable.

Furthermore, by including persons of the same age at a certain rather small time interval, we reduce variability due to age and time differences in exposure.

On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable knowledge as the goal of enquiry.

$6$$)They said the negotiating clock should be stopped at a certain hour, rather than let it run all night.

Instead, as on the 2013 tours to India and England, we come back to selectors trying to force a team into a certain shape rather than picking the best players.

At my son's age maybe I cast my vote because I felt a certain way, rather than fully understood the rhetoric.

If anything, the systematic overrepresentation of Mormons among top businesspeople and lawyers affords LDS affiliation a certain cachet — rather like being Jewish, but taller.