Sentence examples for rather a short from inspiring English sources

She is rather a short girl".

Unfortunately, this is still rather a short time (500 billionths of a second, to be precise), and is certainly not long enough to perform a calculation.

From Dandong, the largest Chinese city on the border with North Korea, it's just a short hop to the Hermit Kingdom – or rather, a short swim.

One of the most striking looks from the collection was a modernized shift, or rather a short trapeze that stood away from the body as if the models were walking through clouds.

Meanwhile — or, rather, a short time later, since the overlapping and sequential chapters of the movie are presented as if they were happening simultaneously — Richard and Susan's surviving children (Elle Fanning and Nathan Gamble) travel to Mexico with the family's housekeeper, Amelia (Adriana Barraza), whose son is getting married near Tijuana.

Renata Adler, whose lethal essayistic style is best indicated by her famous excoriation of Pauline Kael, appears by way of "Brownstone," which, again, is not an essay but rather a short story (first published in The New Yorker) that appeared in "Speedboat," Adler's first novel, as a vignette.

The Khatami experiment now seems not so much like a bright spot in the past, but rather a short-lived flare in the dark.

A proper condition of the milling time is rather a shorter time than ∼8 h, where the graphitic feature is remained in the ball milled product.

"A year after 9/11 it was clear to many Pakistanis," writes Ahmed Rashid in his book Descent Into Chaos, "that Musharraf's support of the US-led war in Afghanistan was not the promised strategic U-turn that would end the army's long-standing support for Islamic extremists but rather a short-term tactical move to appease the United States and off-set India's hegemony".

This would imply that changes to imagined self-motion did not occur per se, but rather a short-term motor memory system may have come into play.

But less obvious financial incentives can push toward a foreclosure rather than a short sale.