Sentence examples for rather than hear from inspiring English sources

You see a man forced into a small box, rather than hear his screams inside it.

He invades an enemy city single-handed, but leaves the room rather than hear his deeds praised.

"There is something special," he added, "about the level of listening of an audience who comes to hear a Beethoven sonata rather than hear X play Beethoven sonatas".

The higher court judges are likely to review the appeal on paper rather than hear arguments in court, the family associate said.

The group's performance was impeccably tight and evocative, with a sensitive performance from the veteran new-music soprano Lucy Shelton, but it's now a work that you want to admire from afar rather than hear every day.

The resonances and the losses are even clearer, I think, when you go to the start of the tradition — roughly, Klein to Layton to Cohen — rather than hear only its end.

"He feels it rather than hears it.

"We have been reading the developments in the paper, rather than hearing it from them".

He growled and I felt it in the pit of my stomach rather than heard it.

Instead I felt, rather than heard, the animal's echolocation focusing on my puny body.

He pointed out that most of the lowest notes on most pianos are actually inferred rather than heard.