Sentence examples for this rather than that from inspiring English sources

Why this, rather than that?

There is a personal reason for your inventing this, rather than that.

"Works of art," William Gass, who died this week, at ninety-three, once wrote, "are governed by the question, 'Why this, rather than that?' " Gass spent most of his life in the Midwest.

You can't model the choice to support this rather than that or tension my record on strategic thinking with the domain knowledge of a top person in structural biology.

Hence, it is not impossible that there be a science which explains the reasons why those things which exist and occur can exist and occur, and why in a given case this rather than that occurs.

There is even a sense in which free choices are necessitated namely, it is necessary that human beings, given their nature as conscious rational beings, make free choices, though it is not necessary that they choose this rather than that.

"But how you translate that into action and at this stream rather than that stream really requires a lot of work to figure out," he said.

But it couldn't be worse suited to a writer like Salinger, the spell of whose work is cast, after all, entirely by the micro-structure of each sentence — on choosing to italicize this word, rather than that; on describing a widower's left rather than right hand; on the ear for dialogue and the feeling for detail; above all, on the jokes.

By 'lovable' here Velleman seems to mean able to be loved, not worthy of being loved, for nothing Velleman says here speaks to a question about the justification of my loving this person rather than that.

"Patrick can say, 'if I were you I'd do it like this rather than like that'".

Moreover, our fundamental reason for choosing to act on such maxims should be that they have this lawgiving form, rather than that acting on them would achieve some end or goal that would satisfy a desire (5:27).