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.

Is this because Mr. Obama is in the White House, or is it rather because, as a nation, the U.S. is having trouble adjusting to a world that is quite happy move forward without it?

And, despite his innocence – or, rather, precisely because of it – he refuses to answer back in kind.

I quite like the way he's pacing his innings, even if – or rather, particularly because – it has no obvious rationale.

In previous studies luminal epithelization remained partial or rather slow because of the early disintegration of the collagen layer.

But the McCords do bother me, or rather did, because I think I figured out what was bothering me.