Sentence examples for snapshot rather than from inspiring English sources

Stanley Gibbons' group investment director Keith Heddle said: "This is a market snapshot rather than a tradeable index".

"It's easier to update Facebook when you're on the go with a snapshot rather than with text," Ms. Lieb said.

Whittington conceded that her study amounted to being only "a snapshot rather than the big picture" but it does imply a growing preference for digital skills.

Consequently, our impressions of society are formed by looking at individual factoids and scare stories as if through a long thin tube, only ever seeing a snapshot rather than the full panorama.

They analysed data between 2001 and 2008, which provided a snapshot rather than people's continuing dietary habits.

Resiliency in high-performance computing where a simulation can be restarted from previously compressed data snapshot rather than the original one in order to save storage space.

It was as if you were exhibiting your snapshots rather than your finished portrait".

The form of this piece inevitably means the play is a series of kaleidoscopic snapshots rather than a sustained story.

Low pay is too often thought of in terms of a series of snapshots rather than a motion picture.

The form functions in a similar way to poetry in that it usually distils and condenses rather than embellishes, creates snapshots rather than fully fledged narratives and moves more swiftly towards closure.

And so we tag along to an ancient monastery where the monks condescend to the visitors, up peaks where people take snapshots rather than taking in the vistas, on to a cemetery so steep and narrow that the dead are buried standing on their feet.