Sentence examples for rather an act from inspiring English sources
It's not always a reaction against anything, but rather an act of self-care and joy.
A moderate Democrat, McClellan believed the proclamation was not a practical necessity but rather an act of political symbolism that reflected Lincoln's response to "radical influences".
The central problem is how to get the upper-house Senate to commit suicide, or rather an act of extensive self-mutilation, since Mr Letta envisages a smaller chamber of regional delegates with restricted powers.
The 1960-61 musical-comedy tAkeoff "A Woman Is a Woman" alluded to the genre's elements without actually deriving much substance from its styles Godard's freestyle inventiveness there suggested no parody but, rather, an act of pure modernism.
In crime novels, it all seems to be about family, or at least extended family, and somehow the death of a beloved character feels not a natural part of life but rather an act of wanton ruthlessness.
But in June, as rainbow flags flapped around the city for the annual Pride festivities, the police stunned the community when they announced that the Barnoar killers had been caught, and the investigators were no longer calling it a hate crime but rather an act of personal revenge.
Investigators were treating it as a crime rather than an act of war, according to a NATO official.
It is a military attack on a military target — a violation of the armistice — rather than an act of terrorism".
It was accomplished, so to speak, rather as an act of violence, which could not possibly last.
After six albums, being in a band becomes a career rather than an act of self-expression, and he wanted to relocate the expressive part of his work.
This is pretty chilly, but, as with the tract of ice, what might have seemed distant or cold comes off, rather, as an act of forbearance, restraint — art.
