Sentence examples for rather than shows from inspiring English sources

Too often he tells rather than shows.

In his letters, Calvino tells rather than shows his correspondents what he means — with great and often moving success.

Mr. Carter also gives Eddie a sister, Junie, and tells (rather than shows) how deep a bond connects them.

Jenkins suggests rather than shows the worst of what is being done to Harriet, and it's this that makes the book so unsettling.

By definition, the one-person play tells rather than shows; in this sense, it deprives the audience of much of the pleasurable work of discovery.

Interestingly, both Muholi and Subotzky are politically committed artists and have been nominated for books rather than shows (though an exhibition of Ponte City has just opened at the National Galleries of Scotland).

It's the kind of telly that pulls you in rather than showing you everything.

Rather than showing technology and humans, how about humans imitating technology?

I probably learned something from this work, like how to suggest rather than show.

Ever since, anxieties about clothing tend to be about what is being concealed, rather than shown.

Thus, briefly, was Newley in time with the ephemera of pop culture rather than show business.