Sentence examples for looking rather better from inspiring English sources

We were in a "risk on" mode, with equity markets rising and bond markets falling, based on the idea that the economy was looking rather better than feared and that the Europeans had averted complete disaster with the Greek deal.

However then 16 fxe3 dxe3 17 Nb3 e2+ 18 Rf2 looks rather better for White and Nisipeanu thought better of it.

I thought it made me look rather better than I think I look".

On the other hand, they could have made me look rather better.

That form looks rather better than it did, the winner having been beaten only half a length in the Sussex Stakes here on Wednesday, and Thikriyaat can continue his progress now that he is stepped up to a mile, which his running style suggests should suit.

Not really, but it's hard to not reflect that, for all the talk of Argentina's 1986 World Cup-winners being Diego Maradona plus 10 others, Messi's international record might look rather better if he'd had a centre-forward of the calibre of Jorge Valdano to play alongside.

Prospects look rather better on a reductionist view of chance (Supplement A.3).

But overall, its chances both of saving Brazil money and of helping to avoid global warming look rather better now than they did the first time round.

Among them the groom, who looked rather the better for wear than most.

The medicine cabinet is looking rather bare.

The third quarter is looking rather ugly.