Sentence examples for be said rather than from inspiring English sources

My 25 year marriage with my husband isn't my first, so I admit that previous to meeting him, I had to learn the hard way that love doesn't always work, and sometimes people grow apart, and there are times when saying goodbye is the word that must be said, rather than the words, I love you.

It'll encourage you to process and summarize what is being said rather than just regurgitating it.

Consequently, subtitles usually carry the sense of what is being said rather than provide an exact translation.

1 I can't say anything without you jumping down my throat' You are arguing about the way things are said, rather than a concrete problem.

This makes the encounter more relaxed and natural and lets you concentrate on what is being said rather than on trying to get it all down.

Conversational implicatures are, roughly, things that a hearer can work out from the way something was said rather than what was said.

Ishiguro believes using this phrase "puts emphasis on 'how' (your attitude) it is being said rather than 'what' (your request) is being said".

Miserly Mr Scrooge and the boozy Mrs Gamp, ever-optimistic Mr Micawber and the faded Miss Havisham are theatrical figures, it is said, rather than plausible personalities.

Do I trust that the majority of Americans carefully listened to what was said, rather than how it was delivered?

And I don't return to those unspoken words or wish they were said rather than unsaid.

Haring's interest was less in form than in content, what was said rather than how it was said.