Sentences with phrase «turn of a phrase left»

His dry wit and turn of a phrase left me smiling.

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The plot centers on a good guy who's also a bad guy — special forces op turned mercenary Wade Wilson, played by Ryan Reynolds, who undergoes a rogue medical procedure that gives him superfast healing powers but also leaves him looking — in one of the kinder phrases best - bud T.J. Miller offers — «like a testicle with teeth.»

by Walter Chaw There's a brilliant song by Patty Griffin called «Every Little Bit» that, among other piquant turns of phrase, includes the lyric «I still don't blame you for leaving, baby, it's called living with ghosts.»

In his matter - of - fact voice, laced with old - fashioned turns of phrase and a parochial vocabulary, Jacob narrates the story of Nodd's downfall, beginning with the appearance of a wolf that preys on their sheep and a chance meeting with a beautiful, worldly girl on the other side of the fence as well as the arrival of an angry outsider who's desperate to leave.

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.

In this regard, Mr. Johnson cites Feng v. Graham [1988] 5 W.W.R. 137 (B.C.C.A.), (not a left turn case), for the principle that the plaintiff's entitlement to assume that other traffic will obey the law, is «subject to the proviso» (in counsel's phrase) that where it is apparent or should be apparent that an oncoming driver is not going to yield the right - of - way, then at that point the other driver must act reasonably and can not simply proceed into the collision, as it were.