Sentence examples for Descriptive phrasing from inspiring English sources

Preschool English language acquisition of vocabulary, grammar and descriptive phrasing predicted school reading ability in a prospective longitudinal US study.

The collision of short, descriptive phrases in Whitman's prose produces an almost lyrical disorder to his description of both the painting and the battle.

It is one of the few times when the descriptive phrase "screaming with joy" is entirely accurate.

On the contrary, they may coexist in a single (artificial) linguistic form or a single descriptive phrase.

He was just using a descriptive phrase to indicate that you looked like something less than human".

One advantage of Blink is that descriptive phrases can be added to identify each link, while a browser like Internet Explorer allows only the site's title.

Everett also learned that the Pirahã have no fixed words for colors, and instead use descriptive phrases that change from one moment to the next.

To foil keyword filters, Mr Xia replaces sensitive words such as "freedom" and "elections" with uncommon or approximate synonyms, or descriptive phrases.

Standard descriptive phrases of the kind common in all oral literature are used to introduce the hero and his kingdom, and more than a dozen types of recurring scenes are identifiable.

"The book does not quite hold up to the very best of Lessing's realistic fiction, which does not mean it's not an engaging read or not shot through with wonderful descriptive phrases," John Rockwell said here earlier this year.

(I mean the stock of often-repeated descriptive phrases, such as the "wine-dark" sea and Achilles "of the swift feet", which were probably used as metrically prefabricated units by the early oral bards who improvised these stories).