Sentences with phrase «poetic turn of phrase»

At the time, black, in this sense, was a rarely used poetic turn of phrase.

If your writing is infused with deep emotion and poetic turns of phrase, a reader who doesn't care for those things may rob you of your voice if you let him / her.

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Best of all, the film employs Murrow's actual words, and Strathairn reads each crafty turn of phrase with great intelligence and poetic punch.

Descriptions of the so - called outsider's work tend to sound like wish fulfillment: luscious painting, refreshing quirk, poetic turn - of - phrase.

Leckey has a turn of phrase that veers from the pseudo — theoretically verbose to the out - and - out poetic, leaving much of the audience stroking their chins in bafflement one minute and laughing out loud the next.