Sentence examples for rather than avert from inspiring English sources
The absence of color blunts the force of the images (the sounds of the machinery are still unsettling), which allows you to watch the movie rather than avert your gaze and your rattled mind.
Some predict the end for the Muslim Brotherhood as an organisation; others call for its complete annihilation; some warn against a witch-hunt that could exacerbate rather than avert the risk of civil war.
We need to keep our eyes firmly on extreme ideologies such as the men's rights activism, and their adherents, rather than avert our gaze and hope they'll go away.
In any case, an early admission of a solvency problem would be akin to informing your spouse of your intention to commit adultery: it would precipitate a crisis rather than avert it.On April 18th Standard & Poor's put America's AAA credit rating on negative watch.
The hotness of Harrison Ford ― or Jack Trainer, I guess ― is so undeniable that not even the workplace can render it taboo: When he turns around to find them staring, rather than avert their gaze, the ladies applaud his torso.
Just taking a few minutes before or after a shower can help you train yourself to make eye-contact, rather than avert your eyes.
In a recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasized limiting the inevitable rather than averting the probable.
There are buckets full of blood, but the clever distancing device means that you stare with fascinated horror rather than averting your gaze.
He makes the mistake of looking at Queen Victoria (Judi Dench), rather than averting his eyes, and she returns the look with interest.
Rather than averting his eyes or staring, this stranger took the time to look, to notice and to share his appreciation of a child's soul with his mother.
Rather than averting their eyes from the problems on their doorstep in favour of "the left bank of the Niger", their focus does occasionally fall on domestic matters, but never the ones most deserving of their attention.
