Sentence examples for rather to explain from inspiring English sources

"She didn't want to constantly forbid things, but rather to explain, even though he was very small," she said.

This is not by any means to slight Mr. Weir's accomplishment (or, for that matter, O'Brian's); it is, rather, to explain why, in his expert hands, the smallest details of shipboard behavior become so breathlessly absorbing.

Inspired by the social theories of Émile Durkheim and the psychological theories of Wilhelm Wundt and others, the ultimate aim was no longer to discover the primitive origins of Western customs but rather to explain the purposes that were served by particular institutions or religious beliefs and practices.

However, the question here is not to account for vowel systems but rather to explain certain characteristics of the speech production system.

To say that all things have three inherent natures is not to take back the Great Vehicle's denial of inherent natures, but rather to explain it.

But rather to explain that, like it or not, we find minvans such as the Grand Caravan far easier to use day in, day out.

This rather tends to explain the audacious manner they adopted".

It is all very clever, but also rather hard to explain.

It is an a priori or conceptual investigation, the underlying concern of which is to identify rather than to explain.

Randolph rarely smiles in these sessions; he sometimes seems eager to leave rather than to explain himself to those less accomplished in his trying profession.

The connection between the UK and Eastern Europe is rather complicated to explain, being intimately entangled with the history of the IMO.