Sentence examples for of is rather from inspiring English sources

If that is the case, we need to find a new word to sum up the nature of their appeal, and the best one I can think of is rather old-fashioned: nobility.

Long before Darwin, Machiavelli showed us a credible world without Heaven or Hell, a world of "is" rather than "should be," in which men were coolly viewed as related to beasts and earthly government was the only hope of bettering our natural plight.

A claim of performance improvement of using a specific classifier/steganalyzer/steganographic scheme with a variance of is rather meaningless.

A glance at the figure shows that the clustering is much less clear-cut than in the previous cases, partly because the range of is rather small.

What we are seeing evidence of is rather than reaching the plateau in three years, as CBO projects, we are seeing a much longer path to the longer-term equilibrium for this market," he said.

His acting is contained: a matter of being rather than doing, of attitude rather than action.

Stative: A verb that refers to a state of being rather than an action.

Large thermoplastic-made parts have the significant economical advantage of being rather easy to repair.

The reality is – as reality has a habit of being – rather more pedestrian.

It's a case of the importance of being, rather than of having, and is characteristic of trait biophilia.

"What the report accused Binghamton University of was, rather than taking corrective action, trying to cover their tracks.