Sentence examples for rather bothered from inspiring English sources

I don't want to appear to be an old fuddy-duddy (or worse), but it rather bothered me.

I am rather bothered by the fact that they should have built it with their own money, not with public money".

In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).

Even if I understood all the stuff about the demise of the pottery works and the arrival of low-paid unskilled jobs, a few things would rather bother me.

"I have a friend who runs a mortgage business," McConnell says on the audio recording, "and he says the cost of writing a mortgage has gone up $1000 for him". Underwriting a mortgage clearly takes more time and effort that generating reams of "liars' loans". Businesses would not rather bother, especially when it's more lucrative to cut corners.

Thieves will often rather bother the suburb next door that doesn't have these little inconveniences.

Relaxed rather than bothered, she nearly fell asleep.

Fortunately, Collins makes it clear that her heroine is fairly interested in romance but really rather more bothered about staying alive and keeping her family from being throttled by the powers that be.

Without political tastes, she has enjoyed the big national figures rather than bothered about their theories of government; she has been close to events by being next to their leaders at dinner.

Rather than bother with bills, Ikea has been offering those customers freebies.

He would vault a five-bar gate rather than bother to open it.