Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] rather [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The grandson of ATLAS , Bellerophon was a beautiful if rather arrogant youth . |
| 32 | Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist . |
| 33 | It also has a short but rather wonderful section on feminism and humour — an undeserved absence in feminist cultural studies — and a timely recognition of the strength of women 's ‘ comic subversions ’ . |
| 34 | From his porch , Joseph watched with a sullen and rather bleary eye : the night had been long on reminiscence and several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories . |
| 35 | Yet her intolerance was attenuated by a fundamental and rather unexpected liberalism . |
| 36 | To the beginner , the proliferation of academic criticism in particular can present a bewildering and rather daunting picture of competing schools of thought . |
| 37 | The merchants were a cheerful but rather mysterious lot . |
| 38 | He lived with his wife , a thin and rather nervous girl with ragged blonde hair , in a second-floor flat that belonged to her widowed mother . |
| 39 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 40 | His name , said Nicky , was Patrick Meehan , and he was a well-known and rather incompetent safe-blower , but with no record of violence . |
| 41 | However , you 'd buy an instrument like this for tone , not out-and-out volume , and this one possesses a weird and rather wonderful sound : a subtle , silvery treble , slightly nasal and Martin-like G and D strings , and a bass sound that 's tight but surprisingly rich . |
| 42 | No dust , no smears on the polished woodwork ; a faint and rather pleasing odour of antiseptic . |
| 43 | If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that our trade with Indonesia depends on a resolution to that question , that is a new and rather remarkable policy statement . |
| 44 | It is a reputable if rather dull book , but Lord Derby was a dull man . |
| 45 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 46 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 47 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 48 | They drove back out of Bourton in the gloomy still gusty dusk but even in that light the village sprawled around shallow stream criss-crossed with toy bridges had an undeniable if rather practised charm . |
| 49 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 50 | She paused and then said : ‘ It was a horrible end to an interesting but rather strange dinner party . |
| 51 | They are generally thought to be striking at Hipparchos not shown , an interesting but rather surprising concept ; one might rather see them as defending themselves against the bodyguard which cut them down . |
| 52 | In an interesting but rather elusive study of Methodism , which sees it as " the English counterpart to the democratic revolution " , the critical dynamic in a " modernisation " of English society which bypassed the need for revolution , Professor Semmel writes that Wesley primarily addressed his message to " The poor of the nascent proletariat of England 's growing factory towns " . |
| 53 | Their evolution was an unplanned and rather haphazard process whose speed and nature differed considerably in different parts of Europe . |
| 54 | It was an ancient and rather solemn ritual , the admitting of young men of good family into Ireland 's small and carefully chosen band of warriors . |
| 55 | What had started as an unimportant if rather shameful seduction had become something altogether more painful . |
| 56 | My maternal grandmother was an undemonstrative and rather prudish woman , whereas my grandfather was rather a rake , a confirmed gambler and obviously excellent company . |
| 57 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 58 | Her looks were sufficiently unusual to attract a second glance in spite of an aloof and rather intimidating expression which she cultivated as a form of defence against being the recipient of too much male attention . |
| 59 | The anchoress would be interred in this room in an impressive if rather disturbing ceremony during a Mass for the Dead . |
| 60 | The boy Jack — it was John in those days — was born into an uncertain and rather gloomy world . |