Sentence examples for rather than topical from inspiring English sources

Many of his later works feature gay characters, though their sexuality is ambient rather than topical.

Jutting into the Humber estuary like a vast steel fin, the Deep is Hull's impressive new aquatic attraction - where you expect to find tropical fish rather than topical poetry - yet the first thing the visitor sees, before descending to the bottom of Europe's deepest tank, is a line by Stevenson: "The sea is as near as we come to another world".

Therefore, the higher the value of the score, the higher the chance that the group is social rather than topical.

Colbert's eclectic taste will help distinguish him from Fallon, whose fun house of a show skews toward lighthearted musical sketches and parlor games rather than topical humor or probing conversation.

On 23 October, the day after the broadcast, Griffin announced he would be lodging a formal complaint over the programme, over its focus on BNP issues rather than topical subjects.

Excluded studies were considered eligible for the external validation gold standard set if exclusion was based on methodological, rather than topical, grounds.

Considering the importance of antibiotic-resistance in ICUs, we focused our interest on topical administration since it has been reported that it is more frequent when a combination of topical plus systemic antibiotics was used [ 81, 82] rather than only topical antibiotics [ 38, 83].

The result, he writes, is a "legacy of fear and anxiety generated by schools, which leaves most of their victims with a lifetime of mumbling apologetically about 'my worst subject.'" "One to Nine" offers a different model for teaching math — discursive rather than linear, topical rather than abstract and remote, and, above all, manically energetic rather than repetitive and plodding.

Subtitled "101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers and Other People Who Know Him Well," this unprecedented collection marks the first, and presumably, only time in its twenty-year history that the iconic Chicken Soup for the Soul series has developed an uplifting title focused on a single individual rather than a topical theme.

This result is assumed to be due to the fact that the study's treatment aimed to activate ICG in the vessels after systemic venous injection, rather than for topical PDT.

The first line therapy for aphthous stomatitis is topical agents rather than systemic medication, with topical corticosteroids being the mainstay treatment.