Sentence examples for rather than imagine from inspiring English sources

In his acknowledgements Barr describes the slow accumulation of manuscript pages, and sees his breakthrough in finding his way through as the need to remember rather than imagine.

"Rather than imagine an economy where workers have to leave a job to get a better life," she said, "Senator Rubio should focus on how workers, like his father, have fought to create a standard so they don't have to".

My irritation was such that I constructed an entire narrative, and rather than imagine a careless housepainter, my mind wandered to disparaging scenarios of all those daughters slapping paint around on a whim.

I merely point out that the conventional wisdom is mistaken, that the open-mouthed sycophantic coverage of such events as the 'Orange Revolution' has done us no favours, and that the future in this part of the world is far from settled and we should perhaps prepare for further turmoil rather than imagine that we have opened a Golden Road of peace and prosperity for ever.

Rather than imagine themselves at the top of the organizational pyramid, they view themselves at the bottom, forming the structural base that holds up the rest of the team.

In fact, Keyes says that rather than imagine a drastically raised life expectancy all round, much of her work involves questioning why certain groups have worse outcomes than others.

Rather than imagining surreal interiors, the sculptors Claude and Fran?s-Xavier Lalanne furnished them.

Spending cuts, once they are felt rather than imagined, may help too.

Rather than imagining dreadful Others, he took note of what other people were actually like.

Loosely connected, autobiographical in feel, they may be circumscribed by lived rather than imagined experience.

Filipino analysts called Cerantonio's arrest proof that the threat of extremism in the Philippines is "real, rather than imagined".