Sentence examples for rather than utterly from inspiring English sources

And when it had burst, they accepted too easily the bankers' claims that they were merely short of liquidity rather than utterly bust.

If he wasn't such a pitiful person, his various failed passes at women would be seedy, rather than funny, and his various attempts at emotional blackmail would come across psychotic, rather than utterly feeble.

(Someone is bound to insist in comments that the Austrians were even righter; so, how's that hyperinflation by 2010 thing going?) Yet our political discourse, and even much of what economists are saying, is proceeding as if the inflation and crowding-out types had been vindicated rather than utterly refuted by events.

But even then confidence was waning: it found the lowest increase in starting pay in recent years, and most employers said there would be at best a cost-of-living rise next year.The consensus, it seems, is that graduates in 2009 will emerge from their studies into a world that is chillier, rather than utterly changed.

Only bacteria fed on the carcasses, but rather than utterly destroying the bodies, this process often caused aspects of an organism's soft anatomy to be preserved.

"It is the weight of evidence rather than anything utterly conclusive.

Negative aspects of the report are that all the data are from only one reference sample, and one run on the device; rather than being utterly convincing,  the data suggests haplotyping on unknown samples may be possible only once error rates on the MinIon reduce; and there is an unresolved question about the CYP2D6 CNV or haplotype analyses, potentially due to sample contamination.

The water of the lake was cool rather than cold – and utterly refreshing.

I was careful to say "tomayto" (American and right) rather than "tomarto" (British and utterly laughable and unintelligible).

He accomplished everything he didn't want to accomplish: he poisoned rather than enhanced the brand, utterly humiliated himself by proudly exposing the hate in his heart, and to add injury to insult, he won the nomination -- the last thing he wanted.

"Considering this, your composition – with its bowed lines and mixed palette (though, at least you only use blue and red to make a purple wash, rather than green: a colour utterly deplored by Mondrian) – would be blasphemous to the De Stijl master.