Sentence examples for vast rather from inspiring English sources

Not even a slot machine graces the vast, rather grim expanse before the registration desk.

He left an autobiographical fragment, Terminations; there is a vast, rather psychoanalytically dated biography by Leon Edel.

Apparently charging so much for their services that people have to choose between eating and heating their homes to survive wasn't making them enough cash, so I suppose suing a bunch of lowly protesters is the only way to go to make sure their wealth stays vast rather than just large.     .

I practised after school each afternoon, imagining the vast Mississippi, rather than the Thames Valley.

The government would better serve future generations by preserving Italy's vast patrimony rather than investing in isolated works of art.

The single engine purred as we glided along, but the eerie stillness of the water made me feel as though I was travelling across a vast lake rather than up a river.

We ascended into the Count's house a series of vast and rather shabby galleries rendered sinister by a preponderance of pictures, books and videocassettes to do with Richard Wagner, of all people.

Nixon's comments further muddy a matter that sometimes seems to stem from a vast but rather simple confusion in American thinking.

Excluding biochemistry on the one hand and physiology on the other, there lies between a vast and rather amorphous field of study of which the frontiers and lines of demarcation are anything but well defined'.

The plough and the now ReprintsThe economists trawled a vast amount of rather unusual data to reach their conclusions.

Now that Russia is seeking to reclaim the geopolitical clout it had in Soviet days, it is wielding its vast energy resources, rather than missiles, to reassert itself.