Sentence examples for rather than contemplation from inspiring English sources

Like their Austrian predecessor Franz West, Gelitin ascribes to the idea that art should be fun and accessible, and sculptures should be objects for manipulation rather than contemplation.

History generally remains a remembrance of all the things that didn't happen, rather than contemplation of all the things that did.

This eclectic opening quartet sets the tone for the whole volume: elemental, full of hard labour rather than genteel contemplation, in tune with the poor and dispossessed of the Earth, in touch with soil and salt and seed, resistant to the venerable poetic traditions of pastoral ease and picturesque landscape.

Forget going to the museum by yourself, Boehm is promoting a modernized campfire tradition, favoring strength in numbers rather than solitary contemplation.

Its galleries, stuffed with mostly superficial exhibitions, seem engineered to accelerate the flow of crowds rather than for patient contemplation.

That delicate balance had yet to be struck as museums strove to empower their collection to generate conversations rather than merely inspire contemplation.

Hapless cricket analogies aside, Hugh and Judah are now meeting at tennis matches – a sign that their business is becoming more pressing, with strategies summoned on the hoof rather than after deep contemplation.

Rather than a fundamental contemplation on the relationship between law and society, government pragmatically chooses to limit access to the legal system.

The films, Diller says, "are more abstract than the animations"; they treat the clothes as objects of contemplation, rather than of desire.

Even an "armchair traveller" who laps up travelogues by Michael Palin or Jonathan Dimbleby while never stirring further than Southwold is an object of benign contemplation rather than sharp rebuke.

On the contrary, people queued patiently for hours at a stretch, an act of quiet contemplation rather than a manic outburst.