Sentence examples for but rather the idea from inspiring English sources

The sprinter does not tackle any old 100m, but, rather, the idea of 100m: encompassing a standardised and tightly prescribed strip of territory.

SHOUTS & MURMURS by the publisher of The American Drivel Review, about his relationship with Dolly, who had defended him at party by saying that it wasn't drivel that he published, "but rather the idea of drivel".

He founded Common Cause in the fall of 1970; C.C. is most noteworthy not in the number of its members (220,000), its legislative box score, or its own longevity but, rather, the idea of citizen action that lies behind it.

The "fact" might or might not be true; the important point is not the veracity, but rather the idea conveyed by the gagged middle-aged white man on the cover of this week's Spectator under the headline: "You Can't Say That!".

By Steve Martin The New Yorker, December 22 , 1997P. 138 SHOUTS & MURMURS by the publisher of The American Drivel Review, about his relationship with Dolly, who had defended him at party by saying that it wasn't drivel that he published, "but rather the idea of drivel".

Considering the above defects is not a serious problem in the idea of MWM algorithm itself, but rather, the idea of MWM algorithm is not fully utilized in a specific environment and under specific conditions.

A central tenet of the P.C. movement, Mr Chait notes, is that people should be expected to treat faintly unpleasant ideas as full-scale offenses; that the threat to civil society isn't angry mobs out to crush opposing ideas but rather the ideas themselves.

According to Śāntarakṣita, the problem of circularity is thus avoided by a proper understanding of implicative negations: to understand cow one need not understand non-cow, but rather the mere idea of cow.

The most important contribution from the Internet is not ability to communicate with thousands of people at once, but rather, the simple idea that we can connect with an individual thousands of miles away.

It wasn't exactly me, but rather the external ideas of the way the girls should look.

In fact, Mueller said her favorite number is not her centerpiece ballad, "She Used to Be Mine," but rather the sexy "Bad Idea," which finds Jenna and her doctor in flagrante delicto atop an examination table.