Sentence examples for rather than admiring from inspiring English sources

The tone is analytic rather than admiring; a queer text was a neurotic text in those days.

Rather than admiring his lantern jaw and senatorial manner, the populist wing of the Democratic Party mutters about his blue blood and aloof manner.

West announced Bateman's influence on his fourth album, 808s and Heartbreak, earlier this year, sidestepping feminist outrage by citing the way his role model 'was all about labels', rather than admiring his creative approach to butchering women.

As she went up to collect her gong, the horror on some faces in the audience suggested they were watching The Exorcist for the first time rather than admiring a well-deserved winner [see footnote].

Rather than admiring his sophisticated straddle on the Iraq war (he voted in favour of giving Mr Bush war powers but then relentlessly sniped at him for "rushing to war"), they despise it as being the typical fence-sitting of a Boston Brahmin whose middle name is Forbes, who was partly educated in Switzerland and who married a Heinz heiress.

The contestants, who have to do things like leap from one moving truck to another, climb from a speeding Jet Ski into a speeding helicopter, and allow themselves to be dragged a hundred yards by a team of running horses, are harnessed, goggled, and helmeted to the max, and you find yourself looking at all the cumbersome safety devices rather than admiring the contestants' prowess.

The sense that Purcell is here to be engaged with, rather than admired, becomes normal".

But here, the faces would be sat on rather than admired.

Rather than admire the artist's daring as a moral provocateur, one marvels at her bad judgment.

His box of delights design for West Bromwich's eye-catching The Public was highly influenced by public discussions and creative workshops; an Alsop building is intended to be engaged with rather than admired.

At that time, the city was notorious for its violence and poverty rather than admired for its fine legacy of art and architecture, which later featured in a largely successful rebranding campaign.