Sentence examples for isn't rather from inspiring English sources

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

I've written about the movie in terms of absence, not presence; of what it isn't, rather than what it is.

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

We do not, however, say that it used to be true but now it isn't; rather we say that it was never true.

However, as Bendor points out, the science can only reveal what a picture isn't, rather than what it is - and it can always be misread by humans.

I ask if that isn't rather an old-fashioned attitude when they are part of the government of Northern Ireland - don't they want to influence the people who give them the money?

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

Discrete mathematics is more defined by what it is not, rather than what it is.

"An Economist Gets Lunch" might have worked if, aesthetically, it wasn't rather dismal.