Sentence examples for rather I wish from inspiring English sources

Or, rather, I wish I had.

Or rather, I wish that people who think prisoners should not be allowed to vote would admit that they are voicing a subjective view, rather than a position rooted in granite-like principle.

Or rather, I wish you would understand that my Berlin is not the Berlin of your day.

Or rather, I wished I were reading it for the first time.

The script certainly never passes an opportunity to slip in a schoolboy double-entendre, such as a harassed housemaster who rather inevitably declares: "I wish I could get my hands on the choir's parts".

Contrarily, the new song "Enough", a love plaint set to a hypnotic piano motif and strings, is greeted like a hit single, as is Emeli's tribute to Nina Simone, a rather heavy-handed "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free".

Rather than say, "I wish you listened to me more," say, "I'd really like for you to ask me about my day".

"I stayed awake throughout the entire play and I rather wish I hadn't.

"I stayed awake throughout the entire play," the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer responded, "and I rather wish I hadn't".

Or maybe it's because I'm not one of her makeover subjects, although by the end of the interview I rather wish I was.

I rather wish I hadn't recently watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, much as I enjoyed the movie -- because a virus catching a plane and going global has life imitating art a bit too closely for comfort.