Sentence examples for heard rather than from inspiring English sources

An honest and open culture should allow difficulties to be heard, rather than to remain unspoken.

But the music's emotional charge, though palpable, was held at a distance, something heard rather than felt.

Administration officials who offered dissenting views or pessimistic forecasts would have had to be heard rather than silenced or fired.

But once again, those assessments were softened when the opposing opinions were seen or heard rather than read.

"I want to make people realise that you have to make yourself heard rather than carry the stigma and hide.

Only hours later, viewers were reacting to what they thought they saw and heard, rather than what actually happened.

Readers hear rather than feel the details.

This is just another example of White House staffers telling Pesident Bush what he wants to hear rather than what is.

"She was saying things she thought the police wanted to hear, rather than exactly what happened," Gillham explains.

Such tactics run a high risk of producing what the prosecutors want to hear rather than what actually happened.

Mr. Pottruck writes that he has concentrated, with evident success, on "listening to hear rather than to answer".