Sentence examples for is not rather from inspiring English sources

Sleeping with a 29-year-old off Twitter on a second date is not 'Rather like in Jane Austen's day'".

It is defined by what it is not, rather than by what it is, and that itself imposes limits.

The problem, Mr. DePalma says, is that the participants, mostly academics, spent their time scrutinizing the differences between Canada and the United States, thereby defining Canadian culture in terms of "what it is not rather than what it is".

In books such as Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison and Beyond Fear, she offered advice to her readers in the second person ("Thinking that you will be helping your family by killing yourself can seem to be very virtuous, but it is not"), rather than simply describing clinical work, and recast depression as a personal challenge that could be overcome without professional help.

The GOP spends too much time defending itself against what it is not rather than asserting its core values.

He begins to define time by what it is not rather than what it is, an approach similar to that taken in other negative definitions.

Leahy said the company had "focused too much on what it isn't, rather than remembering what it is".

Big seems to love Carrie for her charming ordinariness, for everything she isn't rather than what she might become.

It's easy to say what an earmark isn't, rather than what an earmark is".

It's not; rather, it's a story about the pantry.

As the series title suggests, it is easier to say what these movies are not rather than what they are.