Sentence examples for knowing rather from inspiring English sources

Like The Cabin in the Woods, Elfie Hopkins wants to be knowing rather than scary.

But, although played with ferocious energy by Keith Fleming, he seems knowing rather than naive.

You might think being knowing, rather than naive, was a precondition of parody: and you'd be right.

I have nothing bad to say about the experience - other than knowing rather more about Edmund Rice than I would care to.

Women legendarily eschew the extremes of political opinion, preferring "quite" to "very" and tending to admit to not knowing rather more readily than men.

Winning the toss, Virat Kohli opted to field and Kings XI Punjab's George Bailey revealed that he would have done likewise; the shorter the game, the greater the advantage in knowing, rather than guessing, the nature of a winning total.

Apparently, meeting Schaffer's criteria for knowing p rather than q does not position us to know p rather than q; instead, it positions us to know not-q.

One of the strategies he considers is the conjunctionist approach: the suggestion that where contrastivists speak of our knowing p rather than q, what we really know is p & not-q.

This does not mean that you cannot give things sorely needed by the recipient but how you will know this is by observing their life and knowing them, rather than heeding direct requests for items.

For many, tackling a mountain race lies in knowing, or rather not knowing, what will greet you at the top.

Yet within Mississippi the case has provoked knowing nods rather than cries of outrage, even among liberal Democrats.