Sentence examples for was usually rather from inspiring English sources

And, before anyone mentions Margaret Thatcher, she was usually rather cautious and sensitive to parliament, more so than Tony Blair was, I am sorry to say.

His method was usually rather reportorial -- generally he let his opinions emerge indirectly, not as fiats but as muted implications of the way he read (and quoted) the work at hand.

The position and monophyly of Acari has occasionally been tested in larger studies of arthropod phylogeny in general; although we would caution here that the number of mite taxa included as terminals was usually rather small.

The reality is usually rather different.

"I'm usually rather bad tempered when I lose," she said.

The problem goes far beyond McCain, who's usually rather tech-friendly.

Projectile points vary widely but are usually rather large and crude and are stemmed or broadly notched for hafting.

"He spoke with great passion, in a meeting that is usually rather dry," said the nonpartisan veteran attendee.

The experiments to generate data are complex and expensive, as a consequence of which the time series available are usually rather short, with few if any replicates.

Group of 8 meetings are usually rather boring, ending with communiqués and news conferences in which all parties pretend they are all one big, happy family.

The rare instances of figural composition from mid-8th-century France are usually rather ungainly copies of late antique prototypes (e.g., the Gospels of Gundohinus, Laon, 754).