Sentences with phrase «with turns of phrase»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All of which turned MTKB into a C - list celebrity who autographed glossy photographs of herself with the phrase BREAST WISHES.

Through more than 200 interviews with women across the country, Barash looked at the challenges mothers face with their daughters today and offers 10 solutions (a phrase that turns out to be the subtitle of her book).

Rest assured as your baby grows, those lovely descriptions will be replaced with a simple «like kicking» turn of phrase!

This opened up a world of journey metaphors, present in a number of phrases: «the road to recovery», «sweeping aside... obstacles» and of course the most famous line: «To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the «U turn» I have only one thing to say.

Many turned to social media, posting messages and images of support, including the overlaying Facebook images with the tricolor French flag, posting the Eiffel Tower and offering phrases in French.

He undertook the task with surprisingly confident party - political hatred and a cruel turn of phrase.

Oh, and speaking of that infamous catch phrase - turned - podcast title employed by former US Attorney Preet Bharara, the Buffalo Billion corruption case he built before being unceremoniously fired by President Donald Trump is steaming along, with the first trial of former top Cuomo administration aide Joe Percoco is scheduled to start Jan. 22.

Writing in The Sunday Times Mr Osborne did use a very good turn of phrase to explain why taxes should be a last resort for dealing with the debt crisis: «We should not be overtaxed because Labour has overspent.»

kate spade new york makes a small scale statement with this engraved bangle, featuring a temperature - rising turn of phrase.

This piece conveys a fun turn of phrase and can be personalized with the cave owner's name.

What you think is a great turn - of - phrase, with the wrong emphasis, could turn into a disaster.

I think my friends would say i was a fairly dependable chap with a witty turn of phrase.

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.

Get Out is sharp and cutting during its buildup — you'll never want this section to end — and the addition of two awkwardly ingratiating adults (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) makes a comic meal out of white liberal privilege with every «cool» handshake and turn of phrase («Hug me, my man!»

All that being said, the The Grand Budapest Hotel is also effervescent, pitch perfect in its pacing, celebratory in its bursts of vulgarity, and hilarious with its mannered turns of phrase.

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.»

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

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.»

But Jane Campion's wondrous, petal - delicate film not only finds a shimmering visual language that's wholly in sympathy with the great man's turn of phrase, but applies his poetry in a real - world context that never feels too precious or contrived.

The repeated taunts of «cheep cheep» throughout the movie is apparently a turn of phrase native to Poland, according to Polish students Harper worked with in his research.

To help students align their expectations with yours, ask them to turn in a scoring guide with their work, highlighting in yellow the phrases in the guide that they believe represent the quality of their work.

It's a gut - puncher of a novel, with some of the most evocative turns of phrase I've ever read, and thanks to her superb flair with characterisation and realism, there are several characters I still can't get out of my head (and I read this months ago).

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.

For those of us who know Ann, one of the main charms of Bowling Avenue is the way she's able to narrate it in her inimitable voice: irreverent, funny, with quirky turns of phrase that couldn't have come from anyone else.

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.

Index funds are sometimes referred to as «passive» investments a turn of phrase Booth rejects: «I recoil when people think that what we do is being passive, because it has nothing to do with being passive... We are trying to beat the market without forecasting in the usual sense,» the article quotes Booth.

You're given a list of words or phrases and take it in turns with your opponent to choose one, with each word or phrase chosen then forming your insult.

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.

Charlottenborg, too, invites visitors to witness a rewriting of art history with Kerry James Marshall's paintings, which address questions of cultural representation from an African - American perspective and seek to mitigate «the lack in the image bank», to use the artist's own turn of phrase.

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.

Jones frequently uses iconic phrasing from jazz vocalists and instrumentalists as raw material that she fragments, disrupts, and dissolves into associative sounds, which in turn function as distinct installations or in combination with sculpture or installations of her now emblematic Acoustic Paintings.

In this body of work, Wike takes small nuances of speech — turns of phrase, words that have multiple meanings, and the varying ways we interpret them — and abstracts them beyond recognition by translating them into Morse code and knitting the transcription row by row with yarn.

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).

In this difficult week, I have appreciated more than ever the leadership of Steve McIntyre and his balanced, interesting writing; and to name just one more of many, Steven Mosher for his delightful turn of phrase coupled with evident knowledge.

Used, to my knowledge with the energy reference unbeknownst, by the creators of the revival of Battlestar Galactica as an swear word, so you get humorous turns of phrase like «motherfracker» or «motherfracking».

In most areas extreme care in the wording of an issue is not that critical, but with something as important and politically charged as climate change where there are powerful interests determined to make sure nothing changes and who freely manipulate public opinion through corporate outlets every word, every turn of a phrase, every nuance needs to be carefully considered.

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.

The blogosphere is abuzz with discussion about the dispute between DoJ and Google about surrendering a week's worth of search recordsHere is a copy of the Motion to Produce — hell just a few terabytes of data surely — as part of Alberto Gonzales» effort to be more aggressive in the War Against PornA nice turn of phrase from Xinhua.

But I wonder whether, in an industry ever - more crowded with blogs, lawyers and firms are trying ever harder to come up with titles that turn a phrase, all in the interest of enhancing audience appeal.