Sentence examples for instead of being so from inspiring English sources

I'm trying to get fouls instead of being so much of a finesse player.

You try to keep them as kids, let them play as kids, instead of being so serious".

"Companies will spread their bets among different countries instead of being so attached to getting a large proportion of their goods out of China," she said.

Instead of being so preoccupied with what's beautiful or what's not beautiful, I'd like to talk about what is good art and what is craftsmanship.

Having a heart means being aware of what it's like to stand in somebody else's shoes instead of being so insulated.

Shahina Bashir Germantown, Md., Aug. 23, 2010 To the Editor: Instead of being so divisive, the ground zero mosque controversy could be a golden opportunity for taking a step toward reducing interfaith tensions.

I realized all those years I wasted — those were the best years ... the two of us could've been friends that whole time instead of me being so angry.

I think people want to get back to something that has some real teeth, instead of everything being so pasteurized, so I think its time may have come".

However, pharmacy staff describing cases where doctors had ordered the next drug on the lookup menu considered it very unlikely that this would have happened if the prescription had been hand-written as the drugs (methotrexate instead of methotrimeprazine; ethamsylate instead of ethambutol) were so very different.

Instead of saying " is so I can't stand it!" think of their negative attributes as things to build on.

Instead of being delivered so damned fast the audience didn't have time to get bored, the content had to be interesting.