Sentence examples for a fine phrase from inspiring English sources

(A fine phrase, that).

Instead, he saw criticism - in a fine phrase - as a "collaborative art".

He reflects, in a fine phrase, that with the fall of the Soviet Union, "capitalism had lost its memento mori".

"Mr President," he shot back, "I'm not yours, I'm the Senate's".A hard startEugene McCarthy, a fellow senator who liked a fine phrase, said of Mr Mansfield that "a man of gentle exterior can be framed in steel".

Her parents were successful Hollywood screenwriters who moved from New York to LA and brought up their four daughters in a household where everyone was expected to turn a fine phrase.

Especially if this particular animal was, in Philbrick's fine phrase, "a whale with the vindictiveness and guile of a man," a sea beast with the ways and means to ram the whaler Essex and head-butt it into oblivion on a calm November day in 1820, leaving the shipwrecked crew to fend for itself in an unforgiving ocean.

Then she grabs a hat from the debris she is walking out of and strolls toward a bright, bare yellow wall, looking, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's fine phrase, "a little sunburnt by the glare of life".

Her version shifts the moral center of the poem from the anger of Achilles and the death of Hector to an oral history of the dead (in her fine phrase, an "oral cemetery").

Jacobson has many talents – as a rhetorician, a mud-slinger, a purveyor of fine phrases and sprightly patter, as an indefatigable singer of the song of himself.

It is a fine, acid phrase.

Politics, with the help of radio and television, can take a fine, fresh phrase and make a cliché of it in a month, just as the juke boxes can take a catchy tune and make a cliché of it in the same time.