Sentence examples for rather recite from inspiring English sources

It is in a quiet nook just past the Campo San Polo and is staffed by friendly waiters who'd rather recite the menu than hand it to you.

As he began, flanked by two actors who have played him — Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond, in full Trump regalia — someone offstage called out, "You're a racist!" "Who the hell is — ah, I knew this was going to happen," Trump said, or rather recited; he made it very clear that the interruption was scripted.

Rather than tell a linear story, the actors instead recite quotes from philosophers and physicists such as Richard Feynman and William K Clifford.

But her capacity to speak extemporaneously, rather than recite the agenda of the motherland, is something new.

There's no list; rather than recite his stock, Carlos presents his half-dozen reds or whites at the table for the diner's inspection.

Auden translated some Voznesensky, but he would have died rather than recite one of his own poems in the vatic manner that I once heard Voznesensky recite "I am Goya".

Sound clips from film are even more tacked on: along with Alec Baldwin's speech from "Glengarry Glen Ross," Ms. Shanahan incorporates the courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men," in which the dancers, rather dismally, recite bits of dialogue over Jack Nicholson's "you can't handle the truth" rant.

Rather than recite a litany of policy initiatives, Obama, echoing former president Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Four Freedoms" address, focused on four pivotal questions that were summarized on the White House's Web site: How do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in the new economy?

And yet for all the passionate connection between the little girl made into a sister to her mother, the girl longs to be a little girl, to recount Little Miss Muffet and carry a schoolbag like the other children rather than recite poetry and wear a posturally perfect satchel.

Rather than recite this interpretive schema, which in many respects, despite its trilogistic appeal, simply does not accurately represent developments of Japanese Confucianism, this essay will offer an alternative approach.

But, rather than recite statistics, let me tell you the story of these two women I met while working as a TB physician in a "high-burden" country.