Sentence examples for rather than comfortable from inspiring English sources

So I now live by the rule that it's smarter to be chivalrous rather than comfortable.

With eight teenagers on hand, she remembered, "Dad made everyone around the table say what we are thankful for," and so "the atmosphere was strained rather than comfortable, because they were put on the spot".

3. Calm Persistence: "Often coping rather than comfortable, they hope rather than expect things to get better".

"It was comfortable rather than easy.

It created a hierarchy with VSLA members defaulting to him, rather than feeling comfortable in their own leadership.

Rather than looking comfortable at home with their impressive 13-game winning streak here, rested after a first-round playoff bye and a 13-3 season, the Chiefs looked sapped on defense.

Unlike his predecessors, he is effective on television, pounding home the need to measure Germany against other countries rather than the comfortable standards of the past (introducing das Benchmarking into the German language may be an enduring achievement).To accuse Mr Henkel of "treason" is inflammatory and hysterical.

He ruminates on the Jewish man's vicarious passion for sports ("just check out Woody Allen in those expensive courtside seats at Knicks home games, night after night") and thinks "there is something powerfully 'other' to the Jewish man about the natural athlete... reflexive rather than cerebral, comfortable not only on the field but in the locker room and shower, too".

But at that age rather than feeling comfortable in what I wore, I'd rather blend in.

This was particularly so in Britain, where by summer 1973, author Bob Woffinden later wrote, "the Beatle bubble had undoubtedly burst" and for each of the former bandmates, his individual "pedestal" was now "an exposed, rather than a comfortable, place to be".

Like many people, I view him as a narcissistic, shallow bigot - an egotist, a con man, a born liar and exaggerator: a bankrupt Houdini of real estate who belongs in jail for felonies like his "university" rather than a comfortable bed in the White House.