If they choose to keep their preferences private, it is because invisibility can seem preferable to outright discrimination, she added, or else to "preconceptions about lesbian style that are pretty horrible".
Given all that, blackouts seem preferable.
That might make a spot of gerrymandering seem preferable.
But a lie can seem preferable to the truth even in more mundane examples.
A little uncertainty might now seem preferable to large premium increases.
But at this juncture such faults seem preferable to overweening, overproduced machismo.
It may not seem preferable at the time, but it will be worth it.
At times, he said, the stability of prison can seem preferable to a lonely life in the city.
Will the show's maudlin, tinkling piano chords eventually seem preferable to the ludicrous credits sequence of faux-church paintings set to a swelling orchestra?
But if viewers have to both have a Sky subscription and put up with ad breaks, will that definitely seem preferable to immediately downloading their favourite HBO shows?
"If you want to turn off a brain circuit and the alternative is surgical removal of a brain region, optical fiber implants might seem preferable," Dr. Boyden said.
