Sentence examples for a convenient phrase from inspiring English sources
Has that become your motto since being in the documentary of that title two years ago, or was that just a convenient phrase? A. It's so goofy, to have a photograph of yourself as a choirboy.
"Last best hope" has now entered the lexicon as a convenient phrase to convey urgency, especially on the right, where it speaks to a sense of peril that will ensue if certain policies are not enshrined (usually involving tax breaks).
"We may therefore borrow a convenient phrase from the theatre of today and class them together as Shakespeare's problem plays".
But it's simply a convenient catch-phrase for obscuring a basic truth.
In her mind, this was more than a convenient turn of phrase.
Saying "I'm sorry" is seen as a convenient, instantly reassuring phrase that can smooth over a variety of potentially awkward situations.
The phrase "deficit reduction" has become a convenient euphemism for cutting public expenditure.
Summed up in the catch phrase "global war on terror," it is a convenient ordering principle.
It's a convenient rationalization.
Call it a convenient truth.
