Sentence examples for rather unkind from inspiring English sources

Posterity is generally rather unkind towards crowd-pleasing prizewinners.

And I think I must've fought Merton off, because his words were rather unkind about what Bruno had to say.

It is precisely that reputation for being serene that has caused some to be rather unkind about it in the past.

Her grandmother, exacting and rather unkind, drives her to ever greater efforts in the ballet classes that take place on the lower floors of the building.

The song was something of an outlier in Spectrum's catalogue, a vaguely folky jam that set itself apart from their more determinedly prog numbers, and would later give them the rather unkind label of one-hit wonders.

As Eco revealed to the newspaper, he had not forgotten the rather unkind review that Rushdie gave to his novel "Foucault's Pendulum" back in 1989 ("Reader: I hated it"), and, accordingly, he decided to read from that book for the occasion: "I picked it just in order to upset him," Mr. Eco said.

That is the history of humankind -- or rather, human-unkind.

It's not that Ekelund is unkind; rather, he seems uninterested in mercy in a setting where emotions, not lives, are at stake.

"You can't say anything about immigrants because they're saying that you're... but all these eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?" Now did this elderly lady with a (not to be unkind) rather finite vocabulary, actually mean to use the verb "flocking" as in "where are they coming from"?

This isn't at all an excuse for doctors to be unkind but rather an acknowledgement that we will inevitably make mistakes because we are also human.

Pity unkind people rather than hate them.