Sentence examples for Colloquial declaration from inspiring English sources

There was the notorious epithet barked at a demonstrator during a public event, and the colloquial declaration that "Avec Carla c'est du sérieux" ("With Carla, it's for real") made during the press conference announcing his relationship with Carla Bruni, now his wife.

The rhetorical ambitions of the former line are obvious; the latter lines use colloquial abbreviation to underscore the inadequacy of blithe declarations of progress, as had Downing eschewed abbreviation here it would not be possible to read these lines as discretely aphoristic.

He can be colloquial.

This construction is colloquial.

His Mandarin is colloquial.

Declaration: 1.46pm.

She tinkered with colloquial language.

He spoke colloquial American English.

The colloquial suits Caligula, though.

Sometimes they are deliberately colloquial.

"Fake" would have been less colloquial.