Sentence examples for instead of the world from inspiring English sources

Instead of the World Series.

Some people are watching "Project Runway" instead of the World Series.

It is what the Port Authority should have built instead of the World Trade Center three decades ago.

(For those, you would be better off checking out the current Cheek by Jowl or Theater for a New Audience productions of "Macbeth," in which the emphasis is on interior worlds instead of the World of Interiors).

And instead of the world, cable more and more seems to be about the neighborhood -- Ossining vs. Somers girls volleyball, thrilling zoning board and school board meetings, obscure authors addressing the local P.T.A. Nothing wrong with that.

Instead of the world series, with races spread out over the season and points awarded for each event, it boils down to one race, all or nothing, and whoever crossing the line first wins.

But instead of convincing the world of the benefits of their new regime, the Nazis displayed the horrors of fascism.

Instead of viewing the world in terms of availability of choices, we should view the world in terms of friction required to enact choices.

Superheroes, video games, fantasy novels, homebrew computing, movie trivia … these are all about retreating into the comforts of adolescence instead of facing the world as it is.

As I'm writing this, Carrel is at home in Jersey instead of attending the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

As I'm writing this, Charlie is at home in Jersey instead of attending the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.