Sentence examples for rather than attractive from inspiring English sources

They would be functional rather than attractive.

It describes something practical and useful, rather than attractive.

Utilitarian: Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.

Gravity acts like Einstein's cosmological constant, so that it is repulsive rather than attractive.

If airline business travelers prefer to be served by physically attractive women rather than attractive men or unattractive individuals of either sex, a profit-seeking firm will regard being female and attractive as job qualifications (Yuracko 2004a).

"We were young scientists and it just seemed silly that we were going to go out and tell people that 75% of the universe was missing and that there was this weird stuff that makes gravity repulsive rather than attractive.

And once you've come up with that, you compare it to the market price and if the value is greater than the price, you've found "attractive" rather than "not attractive". When use of that simple formula yields "not attractive," of course you move on to something else if you're a value investor – but why diminish it?

Another problem is that if capital returns have become far more uncertain, then the stocks should have become less attractive in recent years rather than more attractive.

A longstanding problem for the sustainability movement is that it's tended to demand we stop this or that rather than offer attractive alternatives, says Ridley.

It carries a residual tang of deep-fried flavours – cooking oil and caramelised sugars – which, when eating the egg cold, is an interesting facet rather than outright attractive.

In this case, the force is a repulsive rather than an attractive one, but the net results are similar to those observed for heavy charged particles.