Sentence examples for rather than revelation from inspiring English sources

Oceans brim, skies bleed, nights are wrought with drugs, sex and slaughter, but such is the inundation that we get repetition rather than revelation and crucially the private transaction between unknown reader and unknown author is lost.

In the second chapter of Jerusalem, this general account of language and its development figures prominently in an argument that Judaism is a form of supernatural legislation rather than revelation.

Reading the Hebrew Scriptures as reason rather than revelation, we find a book entirely different from the one many people are taught to expect.

In-depth discussions with the key informants and a cross-section of some respondents among the local residents further revealed that even when the consultants prescribe treatment to their patients, only the already-prepared form of the cure is provided by the "medicine man" rather than revelation about the plant from which it is obtained, or how the concoctions are prepared.

Even the heroine's inmost experiences, of sexual pleasure, generosity or trauma, feel like enrichments of the debate rather than revelations of character.

Weirdly, she thought this constituted a relatable excuse rather than a revelation of her actual attitudes.

"Stories now look more often like a personal testimony rather than a revelation.

And the country continues to be governed by a legal system that derives its authority from human legislators rather than divine revelation.

But these episodes are adornments rather than lasting revelations.

So far the show's creators have been careful not to give too much away, offering a drip-feed of information rather than big revelations.

In general, readers should probably expect well-crafted books that take pains to be accurate and up-to-date, rather than amazing revelations about ultimate questions.