Sentence examples for but rather exactly from inspiring English sources

After a round of television appearances and interviews, the public gradually accepted that she was neither a publisher's gimmick nor a literary hoaxer but rather exactly who she said she was — a former office temp who wanted to be a writer — and the debate over her work died down.

In the obtained CdS gels, the CdS QDs were not assembled along the fiber of the networks, but rather exactly constituted the frameworks.

In an atmosphere in which many presses draw their list from an ever-winnowing amalgam of the publishers' friends, mentors, professional peers, and even ex-lovers, the connection between poet and cultural capital runs not through risk but rather exactly the opposite: regard.

In the case of an Orthodox Jewish man asking a woman to change seats, it is not that the man is asserting that there is something deficient in him the effects of which will be alleviated by the woman moving, but rather exactly the opposite: he believes that there is something deficient about the woman that may interfere with his purity if he sits next to her.

Several of the set designers for these productions said that they did not aspire to reflect precise reality in their rendering of Manhattan and Brooklyn homes, but rather achieve exactly the sort of jealous stirring that New Yorkers can feel about the digs of their friends and neighbors.

In other words, it's not that he secretly wants Hillary to fail, but rather the exactly opposite.

The second core principle is alluded to in the report's conclusion: that the system is not necessarily broken at all, but rather working exactly as it is intended to.

He tends to classify music rather exactly, and he talks about jazz in terms of codes and information.

In specific cases, for the repeated identification of a defined number of species, it may thus be best not to generate the largest amount of data, but rather to generate exactly the amount of data needed in the fastest and most economical way.

Not that it is derivative, exactly, but rather that A Little Life feels snatched from another time, specifically the 1990s.

And so the heart of this book isn't loss, exactly, but, rather, a crisis over how to think about loss.