Sentence examples for but rather a state from inspiring English sources

The Miser is no mere individual, but rather a state of mind.

Viveza was neither vice nor virtue, but rather a state of mind in which the creative imagination could thrive.

The result in the Erdem show was extreme delicacy and femininity, yet not a throwback to some ladylike age, but rather a state of fashion grace.

He continued, "Such a correspondent is no longer a journalist but, rather, a state official following the logic of service and subordination".

But imagine my surprise when an assistant recently explained to me, as I prepped her for her thrice-daily farmers'-market run, that boiled water is not a specific product but rather a state of matter!

For many a religious person, "prayer" is not another sort of e-petition, but rather a state of mind or soul that involves walking humbly and cautiously before the Creator, something which is seen as desirable regardless of what the statistics may be saying.

In most municipalities in Westchester, a house's assessment is not its full value, but rather a state-mandated fraction of its true value.

At Whittington Health's maternity unit in north London there is no crib for a bed, but rather a state-of-the-art birthing pool and assorted squishy balls and bean bags, and it's here that a group of midwives gathers to labour over a collection of festive chocolate boxes.

Some eighty per cent of the deaths occurred in Ukraine, and Applebaum draws on new archival research to show that food scarcity was not simply a tragic consequence of misguided state planning but, rather, a state-orchestrated program "specifically targeted at Ukraine and Ukrainians".

No one wants to get into a Bono situation, but God save us from celebrities who don't agree that "There's a good chance that what I do say will end up helping some people, so why wouldn't I do that?" Not a middle-aged man prowling the technical area in a big coat, but rather a state-of-the-art spreadsheet masquerading as a video game that allows you to do the same.

While this model describes a new state that has one of two dichotomous possibilities, for many people there is no dramatic transformation but rather a steady state or gradual evolution, and for many people the states of peaceful integration and alienated disconnection co-exist in proportions that are part of a continuum.