Sentence examples for exactly rather from inspiring English sources

They don't live in poverty, exactly; rather, within "the steady, low-simmering tumult of economic and family instability".

It's not that freedom is bad, exactly; rather, there is a trade-off between freedom and focus.

He is not pro-war, exactly; rather, the Western Front has become, for him, a varied, human fabric of collisions and good and noble purposes.

It's not that his followers believed him, exactly – rather, there was too neat a fit with what they wanted to hear, as Trump doubtless knew.

In the years since, you wouldn't say his vision has mellowed exactly, rather that our way of seeing has caught up with it.

Not exactly – rather, it had become impossible to distinguish between people who were legitimately Googling for information, and people who were trying to take a photo.

Not exactly … Rather, the Brazilians were "taken aback by the juxtaposition of rich and poor, and wondered how the latter 'could endure such injustice without taking the others by the throat and setting fire to their houses"'.

They are all, if not exactly hip, rather cool.

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.

If a significantly greater number of expressions were exactly matching rather than non-exact, then it would represent evidence of exact facial mimicry in sun bears.