"rather seems" is a correct phrase to use in written English.
This phrase is usually used to introduce an opinion or conclusion based on evidence. For example, "The item's condition rather seems to suggest it was neglected for some time."
Analysis of mathematics of the algorithm is rather seems to be intricate but implementation of algorithm is simple and straightforward.
The phrase "or rather" seems to follow every observation or thought.
One parental strategy is not better than the other, but rather seems well suited to their reproductive system.
Diversification rather seems to be associated with rurality and touristic development and not so much with the proximity to urban consumer markets.
The astronomers could deduce that this material was not ejected symmetrically in all directions, but rather seems to have had a preferred direction.
Have I mentioned the lifelong Labour voter who "was never political before Brexit", which rather seems to suggest that voting is not political.
This, rather, seems to reflect heightened sensitivity to issues of race in the age of Obama, and the intrusive power of history.
This difference is mainly ascribed to differences in the morphology; while the NaTFSI salt, possibly by virtue of its large TFSI anion, acts to inhibit crystallization, NaFSI rather seems to favor crystallization.
It rather seems to me that this has been a dramatic gesture by a talented but maverick young figure, either for no clear reason or for a very clear but as yet unrevealed reason, namely to join another dance outfit.
("He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute," John wrote to Abigail, perpetually annoyed at Franklin's gift for arriving late at a party and then lighting all the candles on the cake).
"The statute does not appear to be self-executing, but rather seems to require an administrating or implementing authority that is not specifically provided for by the statutory text".
