Sentence examples for explains rather than from inspiring English sources

Her stories ramble sideways; she explains rather than rants.

It's skilfully assembled but it explains rather than demonstrates.

Goshawks tend to spend much of their time perched, he explains, rather than soaring like buzzards, so they can be difficult to find.

Japanese soldiers, it is clear from this account, brought a great deal of inherited cultural baggage with them when they treated their prisoners atrociously, though this explains rather than excuses.

Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times explains, "Rather than asserting that Goldman misrepresented a product it was selling, the most commonly used grounds for securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil suit filed Friday that the investment bank misled customers about how that product was created.

It makes no difference if it is expelled that way, he explains, rather than through the extractor fitted to the back of the unit.

Most of our colleagues tried to explain, rather than defend, the Favre cult.

Just as he did after the murder of Curtis Cheng in Parramatta, he sought to reassure and explain rather than inflame.

Even when my articles and comments have upset him, he has always preferred to explain rather than complain.

Oprah scholars excel, as many good scholars do, at withholding judgment, seeking to explain rather than praise or condemn.

The trouble is, you have to wait until the end of the evening to get even a hint of it, and then it's explained rather than dramatized.