Sentence examples for rather than recite from inspiring English sources

But her capacity to speak extemporaneously, rather than recite the agenda of the motherland, is something new.

There's no list; rather than recite his stock, Carlos presents his half-dozen reds or whites at the table for the diner's inspection.

Auden translated some Voznesensky, but he would have died rather than recite one of his own poems in the vatic manner that I once heard Voznesensky recite "I am Goya".

Rather than recite a litany of policy initiatives, Obama, echoing former president Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Four Freedoms" address, focused on four pivotal questions that were summarized on the White House's Web site: How do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in the new economy?

And yet for all the passionate connection between the little girl made into a sister to her mother, the girl longs to be a little girl, to recount Little Miss Muffet and carry a schoolbag like the other children rather than recite poetry and wear a posturally perfect satchel.

Rather than recite this interpretive schema, which in many respects, despite its trilogistic appeal, simply does not accurately represent developments of Japanese Confucianism, this essay will offer an alternative approach.

Someone in the crowd seems to be singing the days rather than reciting them.

Rather than reciting a long list of two- and three-star gastronomic temples, I have chosen purlieus both grand and small, better to reflect my own eating habits.

Rather than reciting his career milestones, he tends to speak in terms of coincidences that moved him from one musical discovery to the next.

But rather than reciting a dry list of functional benefits, the campaign celebrates the comic complications of living someplace where one's milk cup always runneth over — a "milky magical land" known as Mootopia.

Her sleep was completely broken, and from the break of dawn she was sitting with her back wrapped in a duvet, reading Sufi Allahyar [the famous 17th-century Sufi poet], rather than reciting her morning prayer.