Sentence examples for rather than inviting from inspiring English sources

Coetzee's title seems forbidding rather than inviting.

For instance, are you always providing answers rather than inviting others' input?

So, rather than inviting participating countries to compete with fancy designs, Portugal has provided temporary quarters for each national pavilion.

Sisi supporters should be happy, yet they seem angry, their shouts scolding the passersby rather than inviting them to share the joy.

Rather than inviting the F.B.I. to indulge in political spying and reach conclusions of guilt by association, we should demand that the bureau fight crime, not political dissent.

Rather than inviting the viewer to stand back and admire the production, these photographs are pitched primarily to emotions that are often ambivalent or ill-defined.

Hopefully, the next time this teacher wants to do readers' theater, she'll collaborate with the special ed teacher, rather than just inviting those students to watch.

It might be prudent to put energy into developing relationships with a small number of peer researchers (just as we would with other colleagues), rather than blindly inviting anyone with a passing interest.

The revamp could help persuade users to create an event rather than just inviting friends to a get-together via group messaging, further increasing the role of the feature at the annual music event.

"For me it felt uncomfortable," she says, "because it felt like he was using these girls as a prop rather than genuinely inviting them in a fashion space to participate kind of on the same level as everyone else".

He, too, turns out to be alone tonight -- and he's so humble that Matuschek can feel generous rather than sad about inviting him to dinner.