Sentence examples for present rather like from inspiring English sources

Thus, by backtracking to the "Flint­stonianly remote" era of mainframe computers, tape-and-card-based data storage and so on, Wallace identifies a watershed moment, a kind of base layer in the archaeology of the present — rather like Thomas Pynchon tracing the origins of the 1970s to 1945 in "Gravity's Rainbow".

As his wife, sister, publisher and friends read chapters, events from Byron's life are presented rather like flashbacks.

When solutions of sample 3 were incubated for 24 h at 60 °C conditions expected to be unfavourable for bacterial growth the long shapes were no longer present; rather globule-like, almost spherical shapes and some fine networked fibrillar precipitates formed.

Snyder inherited one of them when he came onboard as director: it was set in the present, rather than 1985, like the comic, and it ended conventionally, with a bunch of superheroes banding together to defeat a villain.

But I rather like that".

"I rather liked it".

By episode four I rather liked him.

We rather liked even hovering cupids.

I rather liked that!

This interpretation gains strength from a signal elsewhere in the phylogeny: haplogroup M1 in Sardinia also presents a rather star-like clade [ 23] dating to 5.2 ka, based on ρ and the time-dependent clock.

When reviewing a restaurant known for a spicy cuisine, we like to eat dishes as they are presented, rather than requesting them hot.