Sentences with phrase «turn of phrase on»

My galley of this book is dog - eared; there's an interesting observation or fresh turn of phrase on nearly every page.

It is impossible to pick up any of his eight books without finding a piquant opinion or lovely turn of phrase on almost every page.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

Although adult SoupAddict has since learned that suffering succotash means something else entirely, back then, she took things literally, as kids do, and felt it an entirely appropriate turn of phrase: she dreaded seeing that can of succotash sitting on the kitchen counter, pegged for the evening's dinner.

Well six years of zero practice quickly erases the memory of the subjunctive tense and all other relevant complex phrases for someone in their late twenties (and yes upon turning 27, I am going to use the term late twenties from now on).

The media also did what they do best in all transfer windows, saying that arsenal had a bid rejected and wenger could have sealed the deal for» few extra millions» but he backed off... they insert the word arsenal target to each and every transfer speculations... the sad thing is, most of us, knew all this were going to happen, but still fell for it... we start every discussion, saying that we know the news is absurd, but if it's true (malayalam phrase is — athava biriyani kodukkunnundenkilo) then what about its implications, and so on... then shit turns real... we r sure, the player is a target, we r sure the amount arsenal has bid..

I am happy to see Walter drop his «assault «rethoric when describing McNair's tackle on Wilshere, which BTW was another unfortunate turn of phrase proving his partiality.

(As an aside, ecological parenting — Badinter's turn of phrase for what others call «natural parenting,» «attachment parenting,» and so on — is arguably the most original thing she offers up in the book.)

Making a point about the difficulty of turning the proverbial battleship once it's set on course, I said that «institutional change requires funerals,» a phrase my colleague loved.

Clegg is clearly much more restrained, but his weekly Call Clegg schtick on LBC proves he can do a man - of - the - people routine and is perfectly capable of a witty turn of phrase.

UK Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage, speaking on BBC One's Question Time, said there was not a «single memorable phrase» in the entire 90 minutes, adding «more people will not turn out at the polls as a result of tonight's debate» and the winner would be the «none of the above party».

His rapid - fire, overlapping dialogue, full of phrases that turn in on themselves with eyebrow fully cocked, has shown up in the work of countless subsequent playwrights, not to mention in the wordier shoals of weekly TV.

Similarly to the Rands, the president is stirred by Chauncey's turn of phrase, finding his mutterings about groundskeeping to be a deeply penetrative insight on the human condition encoded in a lush metaphor («Spring is the time for planting,» and other such banalities somehow strike the intelligentsia as freely profound).

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.»

Atonement doesn't take that into consideration, either, turning the mordant, devastatingly understated trauma of McEwan's prose into one of screenwriter Christopher Hampton's period «bad sex» dramas reliant on extravagant turns of phrase and delightful chamber misunderstandings.

But it's an objectionable turn of phrase, implying a certain intrinsically lowly or shameful status to genre film - making in itself: there are good horror movies and bad ones, smart horror movies and stupid ones, and the critical distinction seems clear enough without needing to delineate and elevate a separate subgenre on the basis of class and quality alone.

Sure, there are a handful of great turns of sexual phrase, but often the film relies on women saying «cock» or «balls» for its laughs.

Certain words and phrases bring to mind visual gags, which Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a graphic artist working on a representation of the history of sadness for an epic set CD liner notes, turns into sketches.

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.

Although, in Pint's phrase, the e-tron quattro SUV can «turn like a hunting dog after a rabbit», the C - BEV (as Audi calls it internally) should be capable of consistently removing some of the impacts of dynamic forces on the driver in much more mundane driving events.

She narrates her autobiography in a commanding, calm tone, and her voice is both distinct and unique to the period, relying on particular quips and turns of phrase to anchor the reader in the nineteenth century.

The author's gorgeous prose, on - a-dime turns of phrase, and sumptuous scene - setting make this an unforgettable read.

in turn, i vilified the opposing position with the equally preposterous Reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy (essentially a form of the same basic take on an ad hominem he was using with his, i guess, «reductio ad southern - racism» to coin a phrase... lol)

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.

Using a simple swipe, tap or slide on the Pearl E Ink ™ display, readers can easily turn pages, highlight phrases for lookup in the Touch Edition's onboard dictionary, zoom, rotate, jump through chapters of the book and more.

Thus Fortey begins Earth: An Intimate History, described by reviewers as «a tale of high drama», «a treasure - house of mind - expanding lore», «enthralling», «a dazzling voyage of discovery» - and that's just a small taste of the glowing praise for Fortey, whom the Economist describes as «the Raymond Chandler of science writing» and then goes on to say, «his prose is angelic, his phrases well - turned....

I am very sorry to inform people that this» no kill» stuff is a fairy tale.Any tradition shelter who do NOT turn animals away, have to make some hard decisions at time in order to keep the quality of life for their animals.No kill shelters turn animals away.They dump the responsibility of euthanization on other shelters.it is nothing more than a way to get more funding because of the fuzzy warm feeling the phrase» no kill» gives people

The artist adds, «After years of studying cultural, dream, mythological and religious symbols, I am beginning to believe that the most interesting signs are the images that appear and keep pressing on one's mind with no explanation - unexpected images that flash across the brain when phrases like «war by proxy,» «turn to salt» or «separation of church and state» are heard.

Known as ESPO on the streets, his sharply rendered turns of phrase shift focus to the interior.

It is more rewarding to turn to the artist's drawings, which excerpt short phrases from the poetry in white print on little fields of bright color.

The title of the larger figure, Big Easy, is a play on words, a nod to Duchamp's trademark turns of phrase.

There's the hand - carved wooden tree - thing - cum - hat - stand surmounted by a wooden model of a crystal, wired up to a heavy - handed Victorian pulpit - like object nearby, which is in turn connected to a number of boxes reminiscent of car batteries, each of which has on it a little jar containing the sawdust collected when Titchner carved the phrases emblazoned on their sides.

Just as we prepare ourselves for International Women's Day this week, a new exhibition of work from Alessandra Genualdo and Bijou Karman hopes to add to the theme by turning previously negative connotations of the phrase «Like a Girl» on their head.

Her two entries, packed with images (guns, celebrities, cartoons), peppered with phrases and pictographs, are the visual equivalent of a static - filled talk - radio station turned on loud.

It's unnecessary, an inapt metaphor, and it will get people to reject his argument just based on that turn of phrase.

Use technical terms with vernacular meanings («it's just a theory»), use professional jargon in an out - of - context way («Mike's Nature trick»), and focus on a playful turn of phrase instead of the substantive science (as if it wasn't blatantly obvious that Ray was referring to a substantial body of work from the past decade plus).

Ian googled the expression «Ad hominem is fallacious on its face» in quotation marks, limiting the search to that specific turn of phrase.

On reading this I went in search of the phrase «the best model of the world is itself», which turns out to be (among others, no doubt) MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks.

Turn of phrase, I'm trying to deemphasize the point of disagreement and emphasize the point of what I assume we agree on but I note you're unable to let go until you hear the bone snap.

«There are a handful of people and organizations who have tried to cloud the debate... they have engaged in this 11th - hour smear campaign, where they have stolen personal emails from scientists, mined them for single words or phrases that can be taken out of context to twist their words, and I think this is rather telling... Those advocating inaction don't have the science on their side, so they turn to this last minute smear campaign.»

Among legal blogs, there's been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names.

According to a post on the THR, Esq. blog, the phrase is spreading rapidly throughout the legal universe, as a search of the SEC's Edgar database «turned up 560 examples of the phrase in the last couple years alone, including in CBS CEO Les Moonves» employment agreement.»

Crime & Federalism's Norm Pattis has some particularly choice turns of phrase as he expresses his outrage over a story that is on today's Law.com newswire, «Man Can Sue for Distress Over Surprise Pregnancy, but Sperm Were Hers to Keep.»

The Laskin biography takes notice of only one of the several «By the Court» decisions that happened on Laskin's watch, confidently insisting that although no author is indicated, the turns of phrase are characteristic of Laskin — it says nothing about why anonymity was chosen in the first place, or who took the initiative, or how it was decided which specific cases from the broader caseload would take this form.