Sentence examples for rather is left from inspiring English sources

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I'm not sure what Wagner would have made of Albery's dénouement but this Senta does not hurl herself into the briny deep of eternity but rather is left to languish on dry land clutching on to her very own phantom vessel – and her dreams.

She has a past that is not spelled out for us but rather is left as a tantalizing mystery.

Within a classical conditioning approach, the original conditional stimulus (CS /unconditional stimulus (US) association learned during acquisition of threat responding 1 is not erased during extinction, but rather is left intact while a new, secondary CS+/NoUS inhibitory association develops (e.g., Bouton, 1993; Bouton & King, 1983).

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Would you rather be left alone?

I'm a solitary character - I'd rather be left alone to get on with it.

Endorsing the view that advertising exemplifies covert communication, it is expected that linguistic metarepresentations will not be fully explicit but rather be left to the reader to infer.

In Williamsburg, the attention is becoming a sore spot for some in a community that would rather be left alone.

In traditional curriculums, these subjects generally are not discussed in the classroom but, rather, are left for students to discover for themselves during internships and residencies.

But he didn't look happy; he looked distracted, for all the world as if he would rather be left alone.

Mr Khoo said afterwards that Mrs Clarke - who is accompanied at the trial by her son Simon - "would rather be left alone at the moment".

Just returned from an epic drunk, Erie attempts to make a comrade of the new night clerk, Charles Hughes (a nearly silent Frank Wood), who would rather be left to his chair and his melancholy thoughts.

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