Sentence examples for instead of excellent from inspiring English sources

This would imply that Greeks prefer to state very good instead of excellent health, but are less likely to classify themselves into the middle category.

It cannot be excluded that parents of diabetic patients may have tended to rate, for example, "good" instead of "excellent" to indicate that their children have a chronic condition.

The purplish-red vinaigrette tasted O.K., but was not interesting enough to merit using it instead of, say, an excellent olive oil vinaigrette.

Instead of E for excellent, G for good, N for needs improvement and U for unsatisfactory -- the grades that most city elementary schools have used for decades -- the new cards use 1, 2, 3 and 4, with 1 being the lowest grade and 4 the highest.

Some great pitchers, like Whitey Ford and Spahn, never had an Unfair pitch but an assortment of excellent pitches instead.

Instead, we ate tiny containers of excellent escargot from a sidewalk vendor who said, "Yes, they are all drunk and crazy".

Scallops instead of shrimp would be excellent, and snow peas or asparagus instead of the broccoli.

In research to be published soon in the journal Psychological Science, Eddie Brummelman, a doctoral student in psychology at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, and his colleagues investigated how children's achievement is affected by inflated praise ("Incredibly beautiful!" in lieu of "Beautiful!" or "Excellent!" instead of "Good!").

"If you're talking to someone with a personality type that's more direct, Crystal can pick up when you're dancing around a topic," D'Agostino said, or she'll help you to use more effusive language like "excellent" instead of "nice".

To top it off, you only need "good" credit to qualify, instead of the more common "excellent" credit generally needed for business cards.

Unlike many other RPGs, Anachronox displays a character's attributes with qualitative descriptors (such as Poor and Excellent) instead of integers.