Sentences with phrase «of turn of phrase»

1 cassette How better to experience poetry than aurally, the better to appreciate the rhyme, the rhythm, and the riot that Prelutsky teases out of every turn of phrase in this collection of 28 of his own high - spirited pieces?

After spending a year writing the book, poring over every sentence, pondering the implication of every turn of phrase, I was amazed to discover a new rhythm and new levels of meaning in my own work.

Jarmusch definitely took his time constructing this world (a shining example is the way Adam refers to some stalkers as «rocker kids,» the exact sort of turn of phrase no one would ever use), and these little references and nods are taken seriously enough by the actors that they do not feel overclever or tacked on.

But the fact that popularizers like Driscoll borrow material in books like A Call to Resurgence, without documenting the source of every turn of phrase in painstaking detail?

Not exact matches

And since it was clear that people were far more interested in «news you can use» than a clever turn of phrase, whenever there was a choice during the rewrite, sounding like USA Today trumped The New Yorker every time.

«I like Wallace, but his goldsmith work is par for the course,» and «Argyle's gonna tee - up that taxation meeting with the Burgh Commissioners on Tuesday» were common turns of phrase until the 1721 publication of The Rules of Golf by Sean Connery.

(Update: It turns out there are also separate reports showing the best closing phrases and the best day of the week to send emails if you want a response.)

Narayen's turn of phrase is hardly original — since at least the 1990s, corporate bosses have been referencing apocryphal tales of military commanders in hostile territory motivating their troops to conquer or be killed by destroying their ride home.

Oxford University Press teamed up with SwiftKey, the company behind SwiftKey Keyboard, an app that works to predict your favored words, turns of phrase and yes, emojis, and found that the «Face with Tears of Joy» was the most frequently used emoji in 2015, with the expressive icon making up 17 percent of all emojis used in the U.S., and 20 percent of emojis in the U.K.

They scour the thesaurus to identify «five dollar words,» and dream up clever turns of phrase.

In one of my favorite turns of phrase, Warren makes the point: «Paradoxically, when «dumb» money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.»

I am coining the phrase Panda Bear Market to describe this latest turn of events because I think the consequences could be more far - reaching and significant than many suspect.

It's an odd turn of phrase, and not entirely accurate.

I'm so tired of people abusing this turn of phrase.

The band keeps it's listeners at full attention with every turn of the phrase and verse - to - chorus - to - bridge.

The abolitionists had to turn to va - gue elastic phrases like the «love thy neighbor» sort of thing and stretch it to fit what they wanted.

Kline has a knack for communicating the difficult - to - communicate through her lyrics, capturing ephemeral emotions through simple turns of phrase.

It's doubly - regrettable given my own mental health struggles — a sad turn of phrase that speaks to then - unresolved self - loathing, I think.

The more I hold this phrase in the palm of my heart, turning it over and over to examine, the more I see the complex and timely beauty of it for my life.

Writing how he speaks, this book can seem most of the time like the transcript from a motivational talk, saturated with turns of phrase, just like he's having a chat with you about something that really inspires him.

When a friend sent Charlie Berger, brewer and co-founder of the Denver Beer Co., video of Harper's Toronto remark, Berger knew right away that he wanted to turn Harper's phrase into a beer.

For a while after I'd seen a program, I'd find myself remembering particular mannerisms and turns of phrase that a character used, and even taking on some aspects of them myself.

-- My fault, it was a turn of phrase employed incorrectly in this instance.

T. S. Eliot once described the attitude in which poets turn their experience into poetry as «a passive attending upon the event,» a phrase that might be applied to the attitude of the faithful when they were said to hear Mass..

Science is, in his turn of phrase, «the owner's manual for the social brain in post — Stone Age suburbia.»

My marks were consistent with my course work so I could only put the tutor's surprise down to my accent and turn of phrase — the dominant celebrities from the north - east of England at that time were actor / singer Jimmy Nail and footballer Paul Gascoigne, neither of which were known for their intellectual acumen.

This turn of phrase indicates that «subjective aim» has not yet become his commonplace designation, and that his grasp of the «basic conceptual aim» is still fluid and new.

There are turns of phrase which, though they sound literal to our ears, would not have done to their original readers (like «the moon [will turn] to blood, Joel 2:31) or she will be «nourished for 1,260 days», Revelation 12:6, ESV).

The unique gestures and turns of phrase that an outsider is liable to dismiss as insignificant are often loaded with a meaning that defies paraphrase and explanation.

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

His theological works remain a source of inspiration not only for his vivid exposition of profound issues, but also for the well - turned phrases such as «cheap grace» or «world come of age.»

Many times while reading Oracles one is struck by a particularly supple turn of phrase or a seemingly innocuous observation, disarmingly charming but laden with profound wisdom.

And he is at his usual best here, casting fresh light on biblical truths, engaging readers with the compelling metaphor, turning the arresting phrase, and reminding all that the love of God is more powerful and sweeping than we can imagine.

Her humor reveals itself in her anecdotes and punch lines, and in the turns of phrase she used to berate a friend's slip into Freudian terminology or answer a professor of English who asked what she considered unreasonable questions.

A combination of mild self - deprecation, irony, vivid phrasing and flawless timing, this is the humor that initially turns a reader's head.

In many ways the most interesting aspect of that work is the argument that the formula - like turn of phrase, «Amen, I say to you... «is a feature of the teaching style of Jesus.

While Trible renders the final phrase «female surrounds man,» the Jerusalem Bible gives us, «The Woman sets out to find her Husband again,» and the New English Bible would have us believe that God's new thing is «a woman turned into a man» — hardly the stuff out of which women experience redemption.

It took me three years of writing in obscurity, nearly every single day, all while steadily «using up» every half - decent turn of a phrase or idea, wasting my metaphors on imperfect mediums, to discover my voice.

Readers will appreciate the particular turns of phrase used by Fr.

Usually used in the context of a positive turn of events or the receiving of some material blessing, the «God thing» phrase gets under my skin because it implies that God is behind every stroke of good luck in our lives.

Don't let people's ignorant insistence upon treating poetry as literal history get in the way of enjoying a good turn of phrase.

Eliminating the adjectival use of «Christian,» it turned to the more situational - phrase, «within the perspective of the Christian faith.»

Thus are communities of character — to cite a fine Hauerwasian phrase — turned into the «historic» and «symbolic» ties of a discarded past.

Butit had the peculiar effect of turning people away not only from theology and metaphysics, but also from philosophy and toward the «human clash of social purpose and aspirations» (Dewey's phrase).

No matter how fine a turn of phrase I may devise on my own to express myself to God, there will always exist the greater version in the Hail Mary: Christ's turn.

Then again he often turned his mind and the hearts of his listeners to the yearning phrase of Jesus looking across at Jerusalem on the hill, and saying, «Oh, how I have longed to gather thee, as a hen gathers the chicks under its wings.»

Even worse to tell Cheryl that she's a partner in the process of inquiry, since her questions helped Plato clarify his thought (he picks up some turns of phrase from her to use in subsequent dialogues).

After restoring J's missing creation account, suppressed in favor of the Priestly version in Genesis 1, Bloom turns his attention to the Garden of Eden story, reading it not as a story of sin and punishment, not even as, in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, a myth of deviation, but as a lovingly and playfully ironic account of the unsatisfactory state of affairs in which we find ourselves and, more specifically, in which the author found herself in the twilight days of the post-Solomonic era.

Sometimes, these pastors use phrases like «turn or burn» and may talk a lot of about the wrath of God being poured out upon sinners with fire and brimstone.

I was completely confused as to where Boo was learning these not so nice phrases until I sat down with a big bowl of this for lunch and turned on my recorded episode of Housewives.