Sentence examples for stands rather like from inspiring English sources

And there it stands, rather like the situation in the Middle East, save for one mystery.

He stands, rather like Wittgenstein or perhaps Freud, as an example of a thinker who made it his business to tell us that things are more complicated than we trust them to be.

Using two stands, rather like puppet booths, in full view of the audience, stagehands make close-up videos of mini-sets, flats and props, which are then projected onto a screen in the shape of a sunburst that hovers over the orchestra.

But I rather like that".

"I rather liked it".

By episode four I rather liked him.

We rather liked even hovering cupids.

I rather liked that!

Like most households, they have planned air trips on the basis of how much their children can stand, rather than carbon footprints.

Columbia, with its mainly white and affluent student body, stands on top of a hill, rather like a medieval Italian town, overlooking the largely black and until recently overwhelmingly poor neighbourhood of central Harlem.

Despite his liberal politics and refusal to play the Hollywood game, he had proved himself to be a survivor in a business he described as unstable – "rather like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down".