The phrase "aim was rather" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the intention or goal of something, often followed by an adjective or a description that qualifies the aim.
Example: "The aim was rather ambitious, considering the limited resources available."
Alternatives: "the goal was somewhat" or "the objective was rather".
But Mr. Gu said that his aim was rather to explore language and reinvigorate it.
The ultimate aim was rather simple: to construct legitimacy and credibility in order to be recognised as distinct Arctic actor.
His aim was rather to arouse popular sentiment in support of Hitler and the German war effort.
Its aim was rather to dismantle the large-scale plantation slavery that existed in Britain's tropical colonies, where the enslaved population was usually larger than that of the white colonists.
The great exception is Nansen, whose work in the Fram stood alone until the 1930s; but, although Nansen made a bid to reach the pole, his primary aim was rather to study the waters and bottom contours of the Arctic Ocean and the drift of the ice and to find out whether there were new lands still to be discovered in the centre of the polar basin.
Therefore, our aim was rather to observe whether in ovo injection could change the effect of AgNano distributed with drinking water.
The aim is, rather, to be intriguing, suggestive, and spooky.
There is no thematic relationship between the movements of a single suite, the aim being rather for contrast within a given key.
Our aim is rather to find approximations of the post-contingency stability boundary, in pre-contingency parameter space, while including the possibility for post-contingency corrective controls.
The aim is rather ambitious, namely, to show that we can derive two moral principles from abstract facts about rationality and then to show how those two moral principles apply in a range of concrete moral situations.
It is because what comes across (probably contrary to what Makari intends) is how arbitrary the theories and their revisions are, how little truth ranked as a criterion in choosing them, the main aim being, rather, a striking, unified theory.
