Sentence examples for rather alive from inspiring English sources

What if our employees were not required to be "on 24-7," but rather alive with energy and fully engaged?

In this experiment, it is not possible to determine whether cells that do not divide are dead or rather alive but not reproducing.

David: The song has this repeating lyric 'I'd rather be alive' and it was an emotional release for people to just keep shouting 'I'd rather be alive, I'd rather be alive' over and over again.

That, he says, is why world leaders want Bin Laden dead rather than alive.

Tóibín's James is haunted by self-reproaches: did he abandon Minnie and prefer her "dead rather than alive", so that he could turn her into art?

Jimmy comes rather poignantly alive, especially in the parts of the novel that deal with his unhappy childhood and his relationship with his depressed and rebellious mother.

There are moments when this city can jolt us with the certainty that we'd rather be alive right here and now than anywhere else on earth at any time whatever.

The New Yorker, July 27 , 1981P. 25 There are moments when this city can jolt us with the certainty that we'd rather be alive right here and now than anywhere else on earth at any time whatever.

By Kennedy Fraser The New Yorker, July 27 , 1981P. 25 There are moments when this city can jolt us with the certainty that we'd rather be alive right here and now than anywhere else on earth at any time whatever.

Through a series of quizzes that present unpalatable options that amount to saving or sacrificing yourself — and the lives of fellow passengers who may be family members — to spare others, the researchers, not surprisingly, found that people would rather stay alive.

As we now know, Major Hassan was not killed, but rather captured alive.