Sentence examples for rather to exist from inspiring English sources

This is what it means to be shameless, or, rather, to exist in a world where shame does not exist.

Beliefs, then, like "celestial spheres" or "phlogiston", will be judged not actually to exist, but rather to be the mistaken posits of a radically false theory.

We promised our users 100% privacy and would rather cease to exist than violate this promise.

Related to this, the age-associated protein deposit did not clearly fill out the set criterion for any of the previously characterized cytosolic deposits, including Q-bodies, JUNQ/INQ, or IPOD, but rather seems to exist in parallel with the JUNQ and IPOD structures although, for example, the chaperones regulating these deposits were often shared between these structures.

What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another to continue existing rather than cease to exist?

She says she has only recently learned how to live, rather than just to exist.

It's also possible that many of these jobs could change rather than cease to exist.

The first step in coming to grips with the Liberal party is to appreciate that it is a reluctant party, a party that would rather not have to exist.

This approach differs from previous work in that specificity information is obtained from information intrinsic in a set of conditionals, rather than assumed to exist a priori.

In his beautiful book The Moth Snowstorm, Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait.

What reason have you to care whether you yourself continue to exist, rather than someone else just like you existing in your place?