Sentence examples for quite rather from inspiring English sources

One guess is that they are overlooking many: much, quite, rather and very are common adverbs, but they do not jump out as adverbs in the way that words ending with –ly do.

It was quite nice but rather bizarre.

Quite gentle then, but rather nice.

The result is quite fantastic, if rather unlikely.

Ms Cleaver described the shortlisted buildings as "quite refined, rather than ostentatious".

Seems it's got quite a few people rather excited.

But I suspect it was (though this isn't quite the word) rather more prosaic.

What was billed as a career retrospective wasn't quite that; rather, it was a body of work about aging.

The transition from the bright Australian sunlight to enveloping dampness is quite eerie, rather like entering another dimension.

But, like Mulvey himself, it is very much a case of quite achievement rather than headline grabbing.

The answers are really quite simple today, rather than being heinously complex.