Sentence examples for instead proper from inspiring English sources

These are, in many instances, clearly affirmative, though they are often framed within objections to theoretical reason's enchroachments into the domain that is instead proper to faith.

Instead, proper targeting may reduce the number of unnecessary colonoscopies in the future.

Almost half of all schools rely on pit latrines instead of proper toilets.

Perhaps you've also started wearing Rockports instead of proper dress shoes?

And the thinking was that Intel's profits would sink as people bought netbooks instead of proper laptops with fancier chips.

Valentino, Bottega Veneta and Raf Simons showed the majority (if not all) of their looks with sneakers instead of proper oxfords.

Instead of proper sign language, he translated Obama's speech using made-up gestures and nonsensical phrases like "prawn", "rocking horse" and "hand me the scissors".

They get their hands black with city grime, instead of proper mud and fall asleep to the sound of police helicopters, rather than the sea wind.

To babble in Kiezdeutsch instead of proper Hochdeutsch can suggest acceptance of a parasitical future.Kiezdeutsch is not a dialect but a style of speaking, says Helmut Glück, professor of German at the University of Bamberg.

A velvet party dress works best in a quirky colour, or worn with ankle boots instead of proper shoes, or with hair that looks like it hasn't been brushed.

Their eyes follow the gestures of the newly installed conductor ("Quite a nice young man, but he will wear – do they call them trainers? – instead of proper black shoes") like a couple of hawks in sight of a newly fledged partridge.