Sentence examples for statements rather than a from inspiring English sources

Unanchored from coherent characters, it reads as a series of oblique set pieces and thesis statements rather than a fully considered novel.

Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a concern with making architectural statements — rather than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings.

As it is, the exhibition is a small statement rather than a big one.

This was an interpretation of his statement, rather than a comparison he directly made.

If so, why the public statement rather than a private message?

It was a statement rather than a question, but Comey evidently felt obliged to respond.

Clothing as a personal statement rather than a confinement within current fashion is the theme.

Shades for reasons other than actual sun-related shade have historically been a lifestyle statement, rather than a fashion one.

And, Ms. Stone suggests, Mr. Courtney's plea, delivered in a public statement rather than a private message to the filmmakers, may be as crass as politicking.

They also picket City Hall and talk about possible careers (president, again), but each scene is a statement rather than a development.

Thursday night's much-anticipated address on immigration, which he delivered from the East Room of the White House, was an extended statement rather than a full-blown speech, and it was much better for it.