Sentence examples for but rather seemed from inspiring English sources

The sculptor no longer modeled his shapes in the usual way but rather seemed to "paint" them with his chisel.

The luster of New Jersey as a home to heavy hitters of the pharmaceutical business has not waned, however, but rather seemed to grow stronger.

In my reading of Ms. Heller's review, she didn't seem to question Mr. Rushdie's importance but rather seemed merely to find piquancy in the fact that he never questioned it either.

The head of the Palestinian Authority's intelligence service said today that a suicide bombing last week in Israel did not appear to be the work of Palestinian terrorists, but rather seemed to have been conducted by Israeli criminals against an illegal gambling club.

A1 Doubts About Bombing The chief of the Palestinian Authority's intelligence service, Amin al-Hendi, said that a suicide bombing last week in Israel did not appear to be the work of Palestinian terrorists but rather seemed to have been conducted by Israeli criminals against an illegal gambling club.

Follies were similar, although they differed from artificial ruins in that they were not part of a planned landscape, but rather seemed to have no reason for being built.

"The statute does not appear to be self-executing, but rather seems to require an administrating or implementing authority that is not specifically provided for by the statutory text".

If celebrities are "our royalty," as the cliché goes, then they're less like British Royals than like Saudi Royals -- an endlessly metastasizing class that is not rarefied or distant, but rather seems on the brink of overrunning us.

("He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute," John wrote to Abigail, perpetually annoyed at Franklin's gift for arriving late at a party and then lighting all the candles on the cake).

While I agree that several of the changes have a solid basis in sound medical and nursing practice — private rooms can help prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections, and privacy helps a patient get better rest — other changes are not based in medicine but rather seem intended to mask the fact that a person is in the hospital.

The opening monologue — "Ha ha ha! How I enjoy the folksy ways of the niggers down here" — isn't from the original play but rather seems to be a pastiche of nineteenth-century white "appreciations" of slave folklore, notably Joel Chandler Harris's introduction to "Uncle Remus".