Sentence examples for believe rather from inspiring English sources

The Oscar and critical praise heaped on Leto was basically for backing up what people believe rather than portraying an emotionally real character".

Confirmation bias, for another example, inclines humans to look for confirmation of what they already believe rather than for evidence disproving it.

Many of today's problems in Iraq can be traced to the Bush administration's tendency to credit what it wants to believe rather than more realistic accounts.

Quoting the American cartoonist and author James Thurber, he wrote: "…most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out".

Yesterday Prince broke cover to tweet a cryptic quote by US author and cartoonist James Thurber, "...most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out".

"We believe, rather, that the only conclusion to be drawn is that in the face of driving need and physical privation many habits and social instincts are reduced to silence".

He believed, rather, in the innocence of childhood.

He sees no evidence that the Soviets either have or desire nuclear superiority, believing rather that they are striving only for statistical equivalence.

I've seen funnier Jimmy Porters but Patrick Knowles plays him very well as a displaced romantic who believes, rather like Osborne himself, that life is validated by pain.

Clear majorities of Americans saw Bush as being more likable, more honest and ethical, more likely to say what he believed rather than what people wanted to hear.

It's a milieu that only came into existence in the last half century; a function of history, she believes, rather than class.