Sentence examples for rather than tears from inspiring English sources

Rather than tears, Lemmy "would want people laughing and celebrating his life", the wrestler said.

A Liverpool teen's terminal illness is played for laughs rather than tears, as his mate strives to make his wish (to not die a virgin) come true.

It was all played for laughs rather than tears – with Olivia Colman's drunk Alex a particular highlight – but at the end Adam got angry and married Rob and Jeremy for real, in the church, in secret.

As a struggling young Jewish husband in the 1999 film "A Walk on the Moon," he had a vulnerability that made viewers almost uncomfortable; unfortunately, few people want to see a grown man shed tears of hurt rather than tears of rage.

There, in slightly off-kilter English, he has chronicled his encounters with the city's justice system ("We went to Court House to cover Martha Stewart. We stood in the chilly wind for nearly 4 hours"); the World Trade Center site ("I was deeply moved by what I saw. It gave me strength and power rather than tears and fear"); and the general cultural richness of the city.

The world's been waiting for you, so invest your energy in the kind of struggle that really counts and builds you up rather than tears you down.

Rather than tear off the enclosure, they added a new porch.

There is another way: building institutions rather than tearing them down.

Now, it's better to have commercials that lift women up rather than tear them down.

People had watched Sinn Féin and the DUP work constructively together in government, rather than tearing strips off each other.

Monday's new attack will only encourage Israelis to finish it sooner, rather than tearing it down.