Sentences with phrase «said in a roundabout way»

All he's said in a roundabout way is «nothing is happening at the moment» — typical cagey football talk.

Not exact matches

You might try saying something spiritually uplifting that is not praising yourself, in a roundabout way, especially during Holy Week — though nobody seems to know how to comment on it here in a constructive way.

What worrys me the most is that this is Wengers roundabout smoke and mirrors way of saying that he is NOT going to buy another defensive midfielder, or at least that's the way I'm reading it, Arsene Wenger has a long term strategy as far as the transfer window is concerned and he is always saying things months in advance that he can then backtrack to when he is criticized and Ill bet this is no exception.

«No, I'm not really comfortable with that argument,» the governor says — before making it himself, in a roundabout way, reviewing how McCall patiently waited his turn before running for governor in 2002.

All this is a roundabout way of saying that Marvel would easily be within their rights to hire Hayley Atwell to play Sharon Carter as well as Peggy, and were Hayley Atwell admit to being involved in the production of Winter Soldier it could be seen as an indication that Sharon Carter will be the female lead of Winter Soldier.

That's a roundabout way of saying that this A7 TDI is just like all the other A7s inside and out once you get past the substance you put in its tank.

This is a very long, roundabout way of saying that first novels have a significant place in the annals of young adult literature.

Arriving back to the UAE after five or six weeks away, we'd look out of the window of the car on the way home from the airport and point out all of the things that had changed in the time we'd been gone; a new skyscraper would've started construction on what used to be an empty sandlot, or a complex of villas had been flattened to make way for a hotel, or what used to be small roundabout was now on its way to becoming a spaghetti junction,» says British photojournalist Alex Atack, the man behind this series, Under Construction.

From a young age, I always said I wanted to be an artist and I guess it just happened in a roundabout way.

To say that a report about industry manipulation of climate science viewpoints which cites Kert Davies is «not news» is actually false, but in a comically roundabout way.

In a roundabout way, you could say Radford never left Green Corps, he just sort of drifted away from it on a couple of occasions, but never basically all that far from core efforts surrounding it.