It's a fine-sounding cliché.
After all, she is not tossing a fine-sounding phrase into the air but locking horns with Shylock: instructing him to be merciful, to which he quite rightly fires back with "On what compulsion must I? Tell me that".
For decades, the essential failure of conservative outreach to African-Americans has been the insistence that the right just want to treat black Americans as individuals — a fine-sounding idea, except that white America has never found a way to treat its former slaves that way, making black identity politics not an indulgence but a matter of survival.
It is easy now, as it always has been, to think that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fine-sounding efflation of rhetoric, or, conversely, to think that it is a piece of Eurocentric Enlightenment imperialism whose highminded pronouncements – for example, about the equality of men and women – do not please all members of all cultures.
A fine-sounding phrase that means not very much.
Lady Gaga's shallowest thoughts to date about style are in "Donatella"— an oddly backhanded tribute to her friend Donatella Versace, delivered in a nasal comic sneer — and "Fashion!," produced by Will.i.am and David Guetta to mimic David Bowie's "Let's Dance" while Lady Gaga sings, "Looking good and feeling fine," sounding like a jingle.
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The tenor Dymtro Popov was an ardent Vaudémont, and Maxim Aniskin sang Vaudémont's companion Robert with a fine, fresh-sounding baritone.
"Cricket fighting attracts so many hooligans now, it's not like before," said Mr. Lan, to the soft purr of an especially fine-sounding cricket he kept nearby.
Petra Lang was full and enriched, a mezzo close to contralto quality, while Janice Watson projected a fine, floating, natural-sounding soprano.
