Sentence examples for Parallel phrases from inspiring English sources

Parallel phrases flow logically, help readers follow the drift — and often lift an idea into eloquence.

An important feature of this high rhetorical style of formal oratory was the use of parallelism, whereby the orator structured their speech in couplets consisting of two parallel phrases.

Using parallel phrases can also make ideas catchy.

The elements of the fu form include a long line, caesura, and the use of balanced parallel phrases.

www.chiasmus.com A site devoted to chiasmus, cases in which the word order in two parallel phrases is reversed, as in Mae West's saying, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men".

Take the parallel phrases in the last clause of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "… government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

During this development, a parallel phrase appeared in slang: piece of trade, "prostitute," derived from piece of tail, a derogation of a supposedly promiscuous woman.

Voters could wrap their minds (or at least their tongues) around his "9-9-9" plan, and when he bowed out of the race, he left us with this parallel phrasing: "I am at peace with my God.

§ 8. Use parallel phrasing for parallel ideas.

The lifecycle concept described in ICH Q8 (Pharmaceutical Development ICHCH, 2017) has also been adapted to analytical methods with the parallel phrase: "Analytical Life Cycle Management ALC M)".

Correlations between residuals of the items with parallel phrasing were allowed across emotions (e.g., item 1 in sad, anger, fear, and overjoy).