Sentence examples for but rather very from inspiring English sources

The clothes weren't creative flights of fantasy, but rather very precise, Sixties cool.

Ben Q. Limb, who advised Mr. Roh on foreign policy during the campaign, said, "I wouldn't characterize him as naïve, but rather very sophisticated".

Apparently, blood flow in the area of the early NF is not completely absent but rather very low [1].

It doesn't feel toy-like but rather very much like a second skin.

Many of Penguin's iPad books seem hardly to resemble "books" at all, but rather very interactive learning experiences, from its Dorling Kindersley and kids imprints – the Vampire Academy "book" is "an online community for vampire lovers" with live chat between readers, and the Paris travel guide switches to street map view when placed on a table.

Hazel said the cross didn't appear gradually but rather very quickly before the holiday. .

War against Iraq should not be our first choice, but rather our very, very last resort.

It is felt that instances of erroneous input of injection time and non-synchronization of clocks reflect the real world situation, but are rather very infrequent.

In this view, a meaningful threat to block a debt-ceiling hike is simply an arbitrary act of hostage-taking; the message is not "I am very, very conservative", but rather "I am very, very desperate and possibly crazy, so you'd better accede to my demands".

Thinking of GDP@Risk, some recent examples offer sobering insights that city-level threats are not some remote reality dreamt up by grim risk practitioners, but rather a very real part of the world we live in.

Intriguingly this isn't a mad story but rather a very moving one.