Sentence examples for or rather, because from inspiring English sources

Click here In part, it is probably because we do still share with antiquity some of the same prompts to laughter – whether that is because of some universal structure of joking, or rather because, as Powell's borrowing reminds us, ancient jokes are sometimes the direct ancestors of our own modern comic quips.

Is that because you genuinely believe they're squeaky clean, or rather because, as the political cliché goes, they're the "weaker party" and, therefore, need to be coddled?

Although the U.S. has guaranteed its security for more than six decades–or, rather, because the U.S. has done so Europe "still regard[s] the U.S. with benign condescension".

Or rather, because their limbs have been removed.

Or rather because I want to keep their feelings from weighing too much on my conscience.

Despite (or rather because of) the aesthetic clashes, it hangs together in a supremely atmospheric whole.

Ask yourself if you command respect because people have to respect you or, rather, because you've truly earned respect.

Despite, or rather because of, all the abuse, however, Senator John McCain will be sorely missed in Moscow.

And yet, or rather because of, this narrower vision it is about as charming an hour of television as anyone female could hope to stay home for.

Allen presents his Sid as the one sane man who, despite or rather, because of his neurotic inhibitions and practical artistic ambitions and ideals, remains invulnerable to such flights of grandiose and vapid thinking.

And because these Americans believe that their objection to gay people is based on moral principle or, rather, because Scalia says they do the Court shouldn't call it discrimination.