Sentence examples for rather than essential from inspiring English sources

When I write a male character I find that the difference is stylistic rather than essential.

They explained the prescribed ceremonies as "fit and convenient" rather than essential.

Within this general grouping there were many local peculiarities, but the differences between all these local alphabets involved variations in detail rather than essential structure.

When the College of Occupational Therapists commissioned a survey about the image of the profession, the answer came back that it was seen by decision-makers as "nice to have" rather than essential.

For now, many of its possible uses are in the nice-to-have rather than essential category – clothes embedded with electronics, flaccid mobile phones, low-energy and low-cost light bulbs – but it also has potential medical and other applications.

Yet one reason we are failing to do what is necessary is because nature is still seen as "nice to have", rather than essential in sustaining our health, wealth and security.

Clothing, books, shoes and so on are often so un affordable to such families that they become luxuries rather than essentials.

We are taught about the sentence from the outside in, about the punctuation first, rather than the essential components.

Although Ron is very funny, he felt a bit like a comedic device rather than an essential part to the play.

More substantive than the Peak drama is the history of the Los Angeles library system, which was initially viewed as an elite enclave rather than an essential public resource.

Everyday criticism and debate on the role of British wars and unjust western policies in the Middle East are portrayed as extremist rather than as essential to democratic deliberation.