Sentence examples for believing rather from inspiring English sources

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

He believed, rather, in the innocence of childhood.

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

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is, in fact, Avigdor Eskin, a millenarian Jew who believes, rather against the evidence, that the United States is conspiring to destroy Israel.

It sanctions, by implication, a future judge's deciding a case on what he or she believes rather than on what is perceived from legal authorities.