Sentence examples for rather than obvious from inspiring English sources

But as in any good science fiction fable, the analogies it offers to contemporary reality are speculative rather than obvious.

Its tight grain has a more subtle influence on the wine than looser-grained oak, adding elegance and refinement rather than obvious oaky flavors.

For one, as Slaven Bilic said immediately after the game, the decisions at West Ham were mere matters of interpretation rather than obvious mistakes.

In Woese's taxonomic redrawing, his three-domain system, based on genetic relationships rather than obvious morphologic similarities, divided life into 23 main divisions, incorporated within three domains: bacteria, archaea and eukaryota.

The only way to restore the power of images in a world inundated with them is, it seems, to make more, and to produce a context that will make them strange rather than obvious to the point of invisibility.

Penned by The Awakening's Volk, the BBC's controversial 1992 Halloween offering was aired prior to the camcorder boom, but its then-innovative format, chatshow-cum-documentary rather than obvious fiction, convinced some viewers the ghostly events were actually happening.

West led a club, rather than the obvious diamond king.

The emotional intensity came from within the music rather than from obvious surface gestures.

West put up the king and played a third heart to the queen, on which South threw the spade ten rather than the obvious diamond.

Have we come to the point where either of those statements would be regarded as brave, rather than as obvious and banal?

But because those politics so often tended to be conservative and pro-military, they looked to kindred fans like a normal, neutral baseline rather than an obvious skew.