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Example sentences for: rather

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Rather, Chatterbox means that Simpson captures one specific Beverly Hills orthodontist, named Nathan Seltzer, who straightened Chatterbox's teeth during the Nixon administration.
The inside story of how Dunne and wife Joan Didion turned the Jessica Savitch saga into the 1996 Disney picture Up Close and Personal makes the cover of the March 2 New York Times Book Review , although screenwriter Larry Gelbart summarizes, rather than evaluates, the book: "Monster offers a crash course in getting a script through the hazards of the present-day studio system."
Pope John Paul II envisions hell as a state of perpetual angst rather than as a fiery pit.
(For examples, see the effective but very different techniques employed by Nicholson Baker in his novel The Mezzanine , and by David Foster Wallace in the novel Infinite Jest and in the essays collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again .) On the other hand, the footnote as scholarly reference tool or scholarly reference weapon has never enjoyed more prominence than it does today--"each serious work of history," Grafton notes, "must now travel on an impregnably armored bottom, rather like a tank."
This is not to suggest any sort of conspiracy, but rather it implies that the perception of the most important science is linked to the region and that because the major funding agencies as well as most prominent journals share a similar economic region, they also share the same perception of what science is most interesting to them.