Sentence examples for importance rather from inspiring English sources

To discard that illusion is not to diminish music's importance; rather, it lets us register the uncanny power of the medium.

Plot was to be of no importance, rather an aspect of reality was to be examined searchingly, and from this the story would unfold without imaginative effort.

For the most part, Jewish critics praised the series — Haaretz called it "easily the best show" on Israeli television — though they tended to stress its "importance," rather than its entertainment value.

His father, Harold K. Guinzburg, had founded Viking in 1925 with a partner, George S. Oppenheimer, with the goal of publishing nonfiction and "distinguished fiction with some claim to permanent importance rather than ephemeral popular interest".

The press is now in the uncomfortable position of making a stand in defense of the Sullivan standard on behalf of a gossip Web site rather than a prestige publication, and a pornographic snippet of no public importance rather than an appeal to help an American hero in a historic crusade for justice.

I wish I could say that I became a more profound person in Jerusalem, that I began ruminating on matters of national importance rather than on whether Marni would sell out of its new fall oxford back in the States before I got a chance to at least assess it.

The illogic seemed so self-evident, and the implicit self-importance rather alienating.

In England, which Canute conquered in 1016 and ruled for nearly two decades, the anecdote is sometimes remembered as a symbol of self-importance, rather than humility.

Seven of nine women rated the reminder as not important at all (they said that they remembered to do their exercise anyway), while the other two rated the reminders to be of little importance or rather important.

This delicacy was at odds with an overly heavy governing concept: throughout, the women vied to remember better a third, mysterious woman, whose importance remained rather too cutely vague and artificial.

In my reading of Ms. Heller's review, she didn't seem to question Mr. Rushdie's importance but rather seemed merely to find piquancy in the fact that he never questioned it either.