Sentence examples for rather functional from inspiring English sources

Hamburg, a tidy if rather functional team, had the best of it early on.

With rising fuel costs, any talk of design probably seems frivolous but I'm not talking about making plane interiors pretty — rather, functional and comfortable.

Some have inclined more to the mainstream, like the forthcoming The Informant, a rather functional true-crimer about drug smuggling in Gibraltar; or the comedy he's currently shooting, about a burglar whom a small boy mistakes for Santa Claus.

Looks-wise, the game isn't particularly spectacular, the rather functional visuals notable mainly for strange 90s arcade-style fonts and icons, giving a kind of quaint retro-naff-chic vibe.

There is something very right about the room where I meet author William Boyd – a rather functional box at an office in Soho, seemingly stripped back for redecoration and the aluminium Venetian blinds drawn, it could be a passenger lounge at some far-flung airport, we both agree.

It is suggested that Early Mesolithic assemblages could display rather functional requirements or tasks performed than significant chronological or regional influences.

Rather, the functional outcome of these events is related to individual characteristics of the patients, specifically their previous health and functional status and their social and living circumstances.

Their producers emphasize their experiential rather than functional qualities.

Some grilles are larger for aesthetic reasons rather than functional ones.

You might say that the missteps of this kind have been rhetorical rather than functional.

Built-in storage keeps the rooms uncluttered and the visible objects are "expressive, rather than functional," as Giovannoni puts it.