Sentence examples similar to rather than quite from inspiring English sources

Julia Raeside from The Guardian reviewed the show during its tenth series, calling it "still rather more than quite interesting" and complimenting it for being "one of the last truly popular programmes on mainstream television where comedians are allowed to be clever".

Sir Humphrey's values need to be aligned more closely to people in this country rather than being quite so immoral.

Let them expose themselves to one and all rather than remain quite in a seething cauldron of unseen, unknown and unheard hate and ignorance".

"But I have absolutely no doubt that (the boy) must be given the chance, a very good chance, of a long and fulfilling life rather than suffering, quite soon, a ghastly, agonising, death".

They chose the word "parenting," rather than "procreation," quite deliberately, he says, because our genes do not live on unless our children reach puberty healthy enough to have children of their own.

Even her 1983 roman à clef, Heartburn, the first chapter of which is produced here, is wry and self-deprecating rather than angry – quite an achievement given its basis in her bitter divorce from the Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein.

It takes one rate of interest to make them settle for a reward tomorrow rather than today, quite another to leave them indifferent between a reward 1,000 days from now, and one 1,001 days from now.

If we put aside the misleading idea that free will depends on supernatural souls rather than our quite miraculous brains, and if we put aside the mistaken idea that our conscious thinking matters most in the milliseconds before movement, then neuroscience does not kill free will.

To make this assimilation would be to take much of the sting out of the dirty hands story, both because dirty hands would be part of a more commonplace moral perspective rather than a quite special ethic for emergencies, and because there seems to be no room in threshold deontology, or what has been called "balanced exceptionism" (Coady 2004, 778 9; Coady 2008, 285 7, 299).

Rather than focusing quite so much attention on who is to blame for the current circumstances, we need to start talking about what to do next.

This study has advanced understanding of rape perpetration through suggesting that in South Africa multiple perpetrator rape can be viewed as an intensified form of SPR, rather than a quite different form of rape, since the same associated factors, albeit at higher prevalence, are associated with the progression from not having raped, to SPR and then MPR.