Sentence examples for rather somewhat from inspiring English sources

In spite of the horrific act at the center of the story — the rape, murder and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl — the novel is not depressing or assaultive but rather, somewhat perversely, warm, hopeful and even occasionally funny.

Because it tells you that Iceland did not go under, that the country is back on its feet; and because the person who decided to build it, or rather (somewhat more controversially) not to stop building it after the crash, was a woman.

This letter also brings into question whether the bust really represented Darwin at age 50 or rather somewhat older.

The measurement of BOD5 is a time-consuming method and the 5-day time had been accepted rather somewhat arbitrarily and without any well-argued scientific background (Min et al. 2004).

By writing down my feelings and thoughts, I began to see a pattern of behavior that was not positive in design -- but rather, somewhat self-destructive and hindering to both my emotional and spiritual growth.

Kurt Kalata of Gamasutra praised certain aspects of Cloud's characterization, noting that he is "neither hero nor anti-hero" but rather "somewhat of a weakling" with grandiose delusions and psychological issues, and one of the first unreliable narrators in a role-playing video game.

Or rather, be somewhat direct.

And she is, rather touchingly, somewhat shy.

Rather, the somewhat unconventional way he decided to confirm the long-rumoured news.

Another was a habit of rather dreadful, somewhat unfunny mimicry, the content of which got back to the victims.

My academic training is as a classicist; but during my education, and for a long time afterwards, I wasn't interested in Roman Britain – it struck me as a rather unglamorous, somewhat dreary outpost of the empire.