Sentence examples for rather than attraction from inspiring English sources

In many cases, we learn, light is a warning, inspiring repulsion rather than attraction.

Despite his analytic skills, at the party Mr. Kass misread Ms. Lucas's uncharacteristic awkwardness as a lack of interest rather than attraction.

The role of wettability is critical: non-wetting fluids tend to cause capillary repulsion rather than attraction.

The authors drew the conclusion that the LH is involved in mediating innate repulsion rather than attraction.

Years of conflict have taken their toll, with animals increasingly seen as food rather than attractions.

But there is no firm evidence of a continuing and active Iranian-inspired terrorist presence in the region.For China, the international entanglements of Mr Chávez and his friends are a complication rather than an attraction.

In Wollstonecraft's view, marriages ought to have friendship rather than physical attraction as their basis.

Comparisons with the inter-individual distance expected if individuals were distributed randomly and independently of each other (Figure 4b) suggest that the larger inter-individual distances in sibling males and non-sibling females was caused by active avoidance, rather than by attraction or aggression leading to physical contact in non-sibling males and sibling females.

The behavioral phenotype that the authors clearly demonstrated is decreased heat aversion rather than decreased attraction to humans.

But, being sculptures (exquisitely made for Landy by MDM Ltd) rather than fairground attractions, they are neither comic nor predictable.

When I go away, I take pictures of street food rather than tourist attractions – I've just been in India, where I spent hours hiding behind a cow's backside trying to get a photograph of a pouri seller without him noticing – so perhaps I'm not the best-qualified person to write about Michelin.