Sentence examples for rather than understood from inspiring English sources

This is an experience to be absorbed rather than understood.

Essential skills, like customer service, need to be learned in practice rather than understood in theory.

All his plays come out of his own inner imagery, or that of people close to him, & they must be experienced rather than understood.

Like the films of Dreyer, Tarkovsky and Bergman, Antichrist is something to be experienced rather than understood, at least at a first viewing, and it concludes in the visionary epilogue on a tone of tragic tranquillity.

In East Hampton in the early 1960's, the teenage narrator of this novel concentrates on a few summer days and a lot of baby-sitting; a growing awareness of the adult world and its risks is foreshadowed rather than understood or displayed.

The uninformed and purely descriptive eye may do justice to the baking sun and the fly-covered lips of starving children, but how things came to be this way, how and why such horror arose - without thoughtful inquiry, this will remain a mystery, to be mourned over rather than understood.

Drug-taking blocks the pain and yet we ostracise and criminalise rather than understand and support.

"We had problems, and rather than understand them, Harvey was really focused on getting what he needed for himself".

And while no such exhibition can fully pay attention to scholarly details, at times we seem guided here to ignore complications rather than understand them.

Almost every political program in Italy expresses a desire to return to the past, rather than understand the country's place in a changed world.

Drawing from Old Testament stories, especially that of Exodus, they "overstand" (rather than understand) people of African descent in the Americas and around the world to be "exiles in Babylon".