Sentence examples for not explanation from inspiring English sources

Seeing his skin drop off in flakes and handing over a fiver to sustain him were actions that called for description, not explanation.

When it came to specific disqualifications say, the 2009 Detroit Free Press Marathon Relay, where he had cut the course so maladroitly that he wound up in front of the pace car he offered deflection, not explanation.

The scene is so bizarre, and its details — like the brown-paper attachments to her breasts, rendering them more pendulous — so peculiar, that you look forward to what follows because you hope for, if not explanation, poetic or intellectual coherence.

When it came to specific disqualifications — say, the 2009 Detroit Free Press Marathon Relay, where he had cut the course so maladroitly that he wound up in front of the pace car — he offered deflection, not explanation.

This discovery allowed him to distill and reconfigure the inspiration of Samuel Beckett — he was reading Beckett from 1950 on — into his own distinctive rhythmical, alliterative idiom, which made a drama of utterance, not explanation, and where the appearance of reality was an uncompromising dissection of the unknown.

Julian Young, a professor at the University of Auckland and Wake Forest University, has for the most part avoided this trap by writing a "philosophical" biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in which the life story provides context but ultimately not explanation for the ideas.

These are excuses, not explanations.

"Spring Awakening" trades in atmospheres, not explanations.

Data on traffic flow simply provide information, not explanations.

Limited opportunities, few players, a small talent pool: these are not explanations that convince him.

Like the betting line for a football game, the numbers on Intrade are probabilities, not explanations.