Sentence examples for was rather as from inspiring English sources

It was, rather, as if sound itself was revealed as melancholic phenomenon.

It was rather as if the world's largest steelworks had begun pouring molten metal all over the neighbourhood.

The problem for them was rather, as the 12th-century Muslim scholar Averroes said, that organisms made by art were like alchemist's gold, a kind of fake.

His playing was so logical, so intelligent, it was rather as if a great work of literature were being read to us for the first time.

Fry sounded, as he so often does, as though he were broadcasting to the proles from a throne in the clouds; the effect was rather as if Zeus had been handed Radio 4's 6.30pm comedy slot.

Jonathan Taylor, the chairman of the foundation, said in a statement that he expected the move to enhance the Man Booker's "prestige and reputation," adding that barring Americans and other English-language writers was "rather as if the Chinese were excluded from the Olympics".

It is rather as if they are hoarding their secrets.

This is rather as you'd expect things to be.

It is rather, as he tells us, "to raise consciousness," which is quite another thing.

It is rather as if the Chinese were excluded from the Olympic Games".

It is rather, as always, that the professional power groups get the biggest slices of the cake.