Sentence examples for rather contained from inspiring English sources

This year's Turner debate has, however, seemed a rather contained and distracted affair.

Christiane Karg was a touching Gretchen, Alastair Miles a rather contained Mephistopheles, and Andrew Staples and Lucy Crowe were excellent in a variety of roles.

The domestic fallout from these massive arrivals has been – compared to the xenophobia on show in much of Europe – rather contained.

However, unlike traditional composites, transverse cracks do not generally extend through the entire thickness of the 90° layer, but are rather contained in single fibre bundles, limiting the COD.

Our day-to-day activities keep us rather contained within a small portion of a city map.

While the majority of the film feels claustrophobic and rather contained, the finale does open up the scale quite a bit and delivers on the promised 'money shots'.

Rainwater is not pure but rather contains dissolved gases and salts, fine-ground particulate material, organic substances, and even bacteria.

From Jordan to Kuwait, Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the governments seemed relieved that General Powell did not advocate toppling Mr. Hussein, but rather containing him more effectively.

It should also be noted that when eGNRs are torn from a particle and exfoliated onto a substrate, they should not necessarily be perfectly flat on a surface, but may rather contain twists and wrinkles.

Some Dogmas of Religion does not contain a direct argument for the non-existence of God, but rather contains rebuttals of arguments for the existence of God.

Haya al-Merri tweets: "The US war does not aim at uprooting extremism; but rather containing its impact on US and Israeli interests in the region".