Sentences with phrase «in journalese»

Despite his humble origins as a baker's son from Trastevere, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, longtime curial head of the Holy Office («successor to the Inquisition,» in journalese) and scourge of the nouvelle théologie of the 1950s, was a formidable figure in pre-conciliar Catholicism.

Not exact matches

Merchants in the Temple is pure journalese, but scattered among its pages among the asides and suggestions are many juicy facts.

However, I work pretty hard at my writing and I think it is much more understandable to a broader audience to write this way than in scientific journalese.