Sentence examples for rather than elucidating from inspiring English sources

(As coinages go, this phrase and "cafeteria fringe" feel a bit spurious; both plant the author's flag in old ideas rather than elucidating truly new ones).

As such, they presuppose the validity of this formalism, and in particular the commutation relation (1), rather than elucidating its intuitive content or to create 'room' or 'freedom' for the validity of this relation.

Too often, this is not done because the emphasis is on introducing the great man's thoughts rather than elucidating their meaning and value for the recurrent issues of human existence.

We investigated the statistical association of PPI use and dementia rather than elucidating the underlying biological mechanism.

Most publications on ciguatera have focused on clinical and epidemiological aspects (Chateau-Degat et al. 2005) rather than elucidating the interactions among the toxins, the algal hosts, and the ecological environment.

But paper bags obfuscate, rather than elucidate, their contents; and Koestenbaum has a difficult time fathoming his hyperfamous subject.

The flurry of archival photographs, maps, paintings, quotations and far too many unidentified film clips, both archival and of recent vintage, fiction and nonfiction, overwhelm rather than elucidate.

Note: we could have been more careful and proved this inductively (I would probably use induction on the number of edges), but doing so would obscure, rather than elucidate.

The author points to a surprising lack of critical consensus around this concept, and suggests that evidence from scholars and filmmakers has complicated, rather than elucidated, our understanding of the decade in which, on the crest of the wave of auteurism, film form became definitively politicized.

Democrats went on and on about Ford's bravery and bashed Republicans at every opportunity; Republicans ceded their morning time to a prosecutor whose clear assignment was to find discrepancies in Ford's story rather than elucidate the truth.

Ex-situ infrared spectrometry and chromatographic studies of reaction products reveal that Ag accelerates the formation of formate rather than carbonate elucidating the plausible mechanism of the reaction.