Sentence examples for rather failed to from inspiring English sources

It was at the former Brawn team that the other big story of 2010 happened — or rather, failed to.

Westhoff said he was "very, very disappointed" in how the Jets used Tebow — or, rather, failed to use him.

The New Art Gallery Walsall A bittersweet masterpiece by Caruso St John, opened in 2000, has rather failed to energise the West Midlands town.

The acres left up for grabs in 1980 are often referred to as the "1002 area," after the section of the bill that dealt — or, rather, failed to deal — with their fate.

It typified an Academy Awards show this year that rather failed to reconcile its desire to appeal to younger audiences with its need to remain reverential to its legacy.

They also said that they had not considered striking Syrian targets, and that they did not think that Syria encouraged or instructed guerrillas to attack but rather failed to prevent their fire.

Characters appear for a sentence or two, then recede into the chorus, creating a sense of how the Americans they encounter see — or, rather, fail to see — them.

Alas such misty-eyed views of the gas industry rather fail to acknowledge that the US's domestic demand for LNG is the biggest in the world.

Characters appear for a sentence or two, then recede into the chorus, creating a sense of how the Americans they encounter see or, rather, fail to see them.

Then, there was the question of where to write — or, rather, fail to write — the book on Lawrence: "One of the reasons, in fact, that it was impossible to get started on either the Lawrence book or the novel was because I was so preoccupied with where to live.

Mainly, as far as one can tell, she does things that are harder: she looks after her baby, and thinks, and manages, with varying success, her loneliness, and talks or, rather, fails to talk to her husband, when he is home.