Sentence examples similar to a formulation that seems from inspiring English sources

In moving to a neutral outlook, the Fed said the risks to the economy were now balanced between a return of inflation and further economic weakness, a formulation that seemed to minimize any concern that the economy was on the brink of deflation, or a generalized decline in prices.

From there, Mr. McCain's address moved into his new mouthful of a slogan against Mr. Obama, a charge that his Democratic rival would be a redistributor, or the redistributor in chief, or some similar formulation that seems to conjure up images of the internal workings of cars.

But it's also true that his immersion in the German philological tradition sometimes makes him resort to knotty, high-sounding formulations that seem to waffle ever so slightly.

(It's a formulation that comes up a lot in evangelical circles these days).

But even as he engaged in openly partisan battle, Mr. Bush at one point seemed to consciously back away from describing his opponents as "the Democrat Party," a formulation that they take as a slight.

Now, there's a formulation that Fox News contributors and viewers alike can unite around.

Such a formulation became necessary because teachings arose within the Christian community that seemed to threaten what the church believed and confessed about Christ.

He proceeded to exalt what, in a deft formulation, the Whitney show's curator, Scott Rothkopf, calls "things that seem like art but aren't".

That seems to me an odd formulation.

That seems a stretch.

That seems a little off.