Sentence examples for exactly rather the from inspiring English sources

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.

There is a moral here, of sorts, although that's not the point, exactly; rather, the fun is in how the narrative asserts itself.

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

The classical version eliminates continuity from the universe, primarily on the grounds that eliminating continuity allows classical computers to describe the universe exactly rather than approximately.

It isn't lost, exactly; rather, it is deliberately released into the sky by a little girl named Molly, who seems confident the balloon will somehow end up in the right hands.

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.

It's not that misery loves company, exactly; rather, it's that suffering, in all its forms, and our response to it, binds us together across dinner tables, neighborhoods, towns and cities, and even time.

It may not convert, or convince, but it is certainly arresting: not magic realism exactly, but rather the director's very own brand of magic naturalism.

Mr. Tykwer, 47, a German filmmaker, is probably best known for "Run Lola Run," a movie that doesn't tell multiple stories, exactly, but rather the same story, with subtle variations, over and over again.

While the larval complexity suggests that the Neomeniomorpha are secondarily simplified and presumably emanated from an aculiferan ancestor with polyplacophoran-like musculature, it appears still enigmatic how exactly the rather simple myoanatomy of the vermiform adult neomeniomorphs derives from the complex larval muscle system.

"Students don't exactly take courses, but rather the goal in this program is to finish five major projects," which include oral and thesis presentations, Mr. Sato said.