Sentence examples for better but rather from inspiring English sources

I don't mean that they're not as good (in some ways they're better) but rather that television has eroded movies' monopoly on talent and prestige.

The point of all that is not just to make McEwan feel better, but rather for Mustier to outline how he is going to turn around an institution that is, according to Bloomberg, "the worst of the large European banks" (and it's a competitive field).

This must not necessarily be a judgment of which culture is better, but rather functions as an awakening to one's own particular culture and one's particular role in preserving and promoting one's own culture.

I was afraid the America I so admired under his leadership will be changed forever and not for the better but rather rudderless.

This isn't blind optimism or a panglossian assumption that everything is good and getting better, but rather an assertion that the future of humanity is ours to shape.

As you'll agree, the results are startling but what's important here is not who wears it better, but rather, the fact that people are being inspired to try something different and adding their own unique flare to the particular looks.

Wilde's old skill at paradox and phrase making was not there now merely to amuse his audience or mock his betters, but rather to kill his own pain and grief and attempt to communicate passionately and fiercely with his lover.

Probably the biggest thing that adult Agricultural Extension and 4-H club work are doing for individuals and the Nation is not so much the growing of better crops or the rearing of better livestock or the making of better kitchens, but rather the giving of actual experience in the practice of democracy..

It is significant, however, that the point of these demands was not so much to attain better government, but rather to strengthen Syrian society the better to resist American hegemony.

The result is not better analysis, but rather simply more words on the page as the agency strains to justify every decision to show it has proper empirical proof.

So for Hacker it's not that couples were once better matched, but rather that they were once more acceptably mismatched: they had clearly defined roles, unequal but symbiotic.