Sentence examples for rather grateful from inspiring English sources

The biologists, in turn, are rather grateful for her interest.

Towering Baa-Baas lock Iosefa Tekori's hands were also rather grateful when a scoring pass came his way in Cardiff on Saturday and he underlined the athletic threat Samoa will pose by simply being on the end of a counter-attack that began at a line-out near half-way.

That night took me back to the first time I heard Coleman play live, in Manchester in 1966, when many of those present were baffled or even angered by his music rather than grateful for it, and after the first half-hour or so of his set I was considering leaving myself.

He might feel rather guiltily grateful that it was the other half that died.

So rather than grateful, I feel cautious, suspicious: Maybe this thing didn't get me -- yet -- but the next thing will.

"I wish I'd felt proud rather than grateful--intensely, almost exhaustingly grateful to just be there," wrote Saeed Jones in his important essay "Self Portrait of the Artist as Ungrateful Black Writer".

Rather, they are grateful to be gone.

Rather than being grateful for the government's efforts, many local residents complain about the quality of the federal agency's work.

Rather than being grateful, these experts said, the public is more likely to react with anger that executives have so much to give away -- even now.

And rather than being grateful for the occasional crumb thrown from rich Brazilians' tables, they are waking up to the fact that they pay taxes and deserve something in return.

So Nout Wellink, governor of the Dutch central bank, should have been grateful rather than irritated when the Children's Investment Fund (TCI), a London-based hedge fund, offered a bit of timely prompting to ABN AMRO, a big Dutch bank, in which it holds a 1% stake.