Sentence examples for instead of the greater from inspiring English sources

Our houses are too gaudy, our cars too big, and we think too much of ourselves instead of the greater good.

We continue to champion groups over the larger whole and focus on individual efforts instead of the greater community.

3) Trump hammers relentlessly on the idea that his America is becoming a victim – of aggressive foreign leaders who are taking advantage of weak leadership from an illegitimate executive; of media gate-keepers of the establishment who work for elites instead of the greater whole; or more perniciously, of the decline and demise of "real" Americans themselves.

"By avoiding that musical comedy feel, we allow the audience to focus on the story instead of the greatest hits.

But instead of the great outdoors, we were sitting in a small fluorescent-lighted room in the basement of the Stanley Hotel.

And so a conservative imperialist led the IWGC to create a memorial culture in which aristocratic heroism took second place to democratic service, and the death of Everyman, instead of the great of the realm, became the subject of memory.

The story, such as it is, concerns Neil McRae, a young composer who is spinning out Web-site jingles instead of the great symphony the artist in him wants to write.

Instead of the Great American Novel, maybe we should be talking more about our Great American Fixation, the insistent desire to find the book that tells us who we are.

Instead of the great clashing of cosmic forces that characterizes the ending of "Moby-Dick," the climax of "A Whale Hunt" is, as it should be, a more muted and real reflection of our contemporary situation.

But instead of the great strapping giant of a man you might expect, the 46-year-old is slightly built, and his hand, when he shakes mine hello, is almost the hand of a woman.

But now he must be suddenly aware of how so much of that attention has been of the wrong kind; instead of the great charge given to him when striding out to bat for England, when going full throttle for the opposition bowling, he is off the big stage.