Sentence examples for rather upward from inspiring English sources

Their task was to try to think of a way forward or, rather, upward.

The heavy cantilevered form of the museum hovers above, guiding your eyes outward toward the rippling water rather than upward.

In a large and striking measure the Progressive agitations turned the human sympathies of the people downward rather than upward in the social scale".

The curve of the wings is meant to drive the vehicle downward as it speeds through the water, rather than upward, as with an airplane.

He took them off the traditional plinth and placed them on the floor, in the viewer's space, where their low horizontality forced the eye downward rather than upward.

Age of Enlightenment It's hard today to believe that Copernicus could have drawn so much criticism for conceiving his system of facing cups downward rather than upward so as not to retain the soapy water.

At the very moment when the succession is in his grasp, his stock appears to many to be on a downward rather than upward trajectory a fact underlined by the grim expression on many of the faces behind him.In a packed room at the Royal Academy, where Mr Cameron was duly crowned, there were nothing but bright, smiling faces.

As a result, Sydney became a city that spread outward rather than upward until the mid 1950s.

The phases of the aforementioned nonmigrating diurnal signatures in electron density in this region are near evanescent, suggesting in situ generation, rather than upward propagation from below.

All Gobrecht dollar restrikes, when tilted on their axis, depict the reverse eagle flying level, rather than upward as it is depicted on the coins struck during the official production run.

Bipedal posture allows quadrupeds to strike downward rather than upward on an opponent.