Sentence examples for but rather useful from inspiring English sources

The monk said the more standard kind of tattoos like I already had were beautiful, and that the tattoos he gives were not nice looking but rather useful.

This directly relates to the fact that we are not learning event-dependent features, but rather useful local filters that reveal more independent aspects of sounds.

Although in practice this is of course not in our control, but rather useful to know since estimated locations in the vicinity or at the optimal positions could be assigned as high confidence targets.

Our ancient ancestors who witnessed the invention of the wheel probably thought it was rather useful, but had no inkling of the critical importance such an invention had on so many subsequent technological advances.

It sounds as though it has mostly helped Google confirm the obvious: that the first few results it returns are indeed usually the most relevant, and its so-called "universal search" effort (where it mixes rich media results like images and video thumbnails among the standard text results) doesn't distract users too much but has actually proven rather useful.

In short, Cobb does not conceive of dialogue as useful primarily to convert or be converted, but rather as useful in order to transform both parties mutually, allowing for a broadening of ideas and a reimagining of each faith in order that they might better face the challenges of the modern world.

It is potentially a rather useful tool, but it is not more than that, and it is no substitute for person-to-person organizing.

Nevertherless, this tool was rather useful for manipulating data genotyped using Illumina Infinium BeadArrays (Illumina Inc).

Meanwhile as incandescent bulbs periodically remind us, heat pollution can be rather useful when one's cold.

Last, Alexplore should not be regarded as a replacement for traditional planning methods, but rather a useful augmentation to it.

This propensity to anthropomorphise is not seen as a hindrance to social robot development, but rather a useful mechanism that requires judicious examination and employment in social robot research.