Sentence examples for rather, so from inspiring English sources

By conventional means, a tourist can get only so far — or rather, so near.

Rather, so long as the authorities do not find law-breaking, the penalties are few.

Rather, so many tantalizing dollars floating about just beyond legal reach have generated more persistence than packs.

The world's first urban centers, in Mesopotamia, were erected not as places of commerce or empire but, rather, so inhabitants could consort with the gods.

At Rana, a young woman threw herself from the building not because she hoped to live but, rather, so her family would be able to identify her body.

But - or rather so - the genre (so multifarious that only the broadest use of the term is possible) resisted overt absorption into the national cultural life, which was a pity.

I found a big stack of newspapers waiting in our (rather so-so) hotel room.

Both came on dinky wooden boards – an affectation that's annoying enough in a pub, but in a swanky restaurant is just plain naff – as did rather so-so bread that seemed to be still in the development stage.

Dromgoole last season staged a show about pirates which I didn't see, and In Extremis, a rather so-so play by Howard Brenton which proved popular with audiences and is due to be revived this year.

Some reports have suggested Freedman has now confiscated his player's phone in a bid to break the cycle of micro-blogging that has seen Sordell send a frankly rather so-so 5,306 tweets in two years (sample tweets: "I am who I am …" and "Hahahahahaa :)").

It's of rather so-so picture quality but those hankering for a shot of nostalgia will care more about memories stirred up than sharpness on the DVD.