Sentence examples for to be rather better from inspiring English sources

Compassionate conservatism could well turn out to be rather better at description and analysis than coming up with affordable remedies.

But though still treacly, still exasperatingly sentimental and stereotypical, this follow-up to the first Exotic Marigold Hotel turns out to be rather better.

The Republic squad are due to meet up at their Portmarnock base in time to start training on Monday in preparation for next Friday's friendly against Latvia at the Aviva Stadium, which is now likely to be rather better populated than it might have been.

That money is going to be rather better spent than if it travels off possibly 3,000 miles into some faceless bureaucracy.

She has offered animated small talk when small talk has been called for; she's been composed and fully focused during speeches and presentations (indeed at those moments, she's showing herself to be rather better than William, who tends to fidget when he's listening to formal speeches), and both of them have reached out and engaged with people.

Scarcity has followed with great swiftness, and it is likely to continue, though the situation should be rather better by May.

Anthony Blunt was professor of art history at London University as well as director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and appears to have been rather better at talent-spotting aspiring art historians than he was at recruiting for the KGB.

Macaroni, as the style guide compels me to spell it, is rather better, as it's smaller than penne, but again, no slurping required.

She also invents a variation on the word "cleverest", discovering by the book's end that it is rather better to try to be "a cleverist".

Indeed there is reason to believe that the police were rather better informed about what happened than they have ever admitted.

My feeling is that it's rather better to have bra moguls in the Lords than men who simply wear bras while blowing rails and calling Asian women "whores".