Sentence examples for is not to explain from inspiring English sources

But the purpose of this book, his latest of many, is not to explain science.

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

'Like all the players his objective is not to explain what he is doing, but to do it.' It was ever thus.

"Stories are fun," he writes, "and we all love repeating them," but "to claim a supernatural explanation of something is not to explain it at all".

The point is not to explain David's psychological motivations, but rather to explore his modes of perception, and Mr. Odoul's mode of inquiry is less analytical than symbolic.

She said: "We did an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode and the internet was in a whirlwind, calling it 'racist', but my new goal is not to explain jokes.

But Phillips has always scorned the role of "exotic missionary; my job isn't to explain anybody to anybody.

To explain is not to excuse.

Let me be clear: to explain is not to excuse; explication is not justification.

The differences among species were not to be completely explained by different species having different genes.

My relationship to faith is not easy to explain or, indeed, to understand.