Sentence examples for rather be told from inspiring English sources

To tell you the truth, my mum is softer than my dad – my dad is more scary – but I'd still rather be told off by my dad.

Even so, the military's most ardent advocates of information warfare acknowledge that American pilots ordered into enemy airspace would rather be told that antiaircraft sites were struck first by ordnance, rather than by leaflets.

"I would rather be told than talked about and not be told.

Astrologists, fortune tellers and even management consultants remain popular today for a simple reason: Most people would rather be told what the big takeaways are, what they really need to worry about and what exactly to do next.

I'd rather be told "you're beautiful" when I'm one of my made-up selves, the selves I want you to see.

Historically speaking, full disclosure of one's diagnosis and prognosis has not been the norm; many patients in Japan have voiced that they would rather be told a white lie of having gastric ulcers, even if the truth is subliminally understood, over being disclosed the terrifying truth of having stomach cancer [ 26, 27].

"The voting situation reported was not conveyed from me to President Trump, but rather was told to me by a friend.

In fact, my source now tells me that she doesn't have a electronic bracelet on her, she has rather been told by the FBI to keep a phone they gave her.

Waters would no doubt be amused to learn that a friend of mine (who is gay, which is relevant to much of the subject matter) read the prologue inattentively and got almost through the first section before realizing -- or rather being told by me -- that it was made up.

What we would rather do instead is tell an agency to figure out how to achieve the savings".

And maybe people could choose, rather than be told, where they would like to be on the continuum of censorship and openness.