Sentence examples for antique phrase from inspiring English sources

Back then, friends, seduced by improbable starting salaries, or simply the prospect, post-recession, of regular employment, disappeared to the world of bond markets, and leveraged buyouts, making good, perhaps – or, in that antique phrase, selling out – and developing the language to justify it.

The dialogue is studded with archaisms and antique-sounding phrasing.

Yet, although Mantel adopts none of the archaic fustian of so many historical novels — the capital letters, the antique turns of phrase — her book feels firmly fixed in the 16th century.

And surely the current uproar over state-sponsored torture had its effect on both the writing and the imagining of "Wolf Hall". Yet, although Mantel adopts none of the archaic fustian of so many historical novels — the capital letters, the antique turns of phrase — her book feels firmly fixed in the 16th century.

Britten made that task relatively easy: his melodic style hews closely to the contours and sensibility of Rimbaud's French, and at times — in "Phrase" and "Antique," for example — the music almost sounds more like Poulenc than like Britten.

Let's get it over with and rename the holiday "Capital Day". We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil — the phrase itself seems antique — as worthy of genuine respect.

Disagreements with Newby's Persian-speaking companion Hugh Carless, and odd phrases in an antique grammar book, are exploited to comic effect.

The phrase "buy secondhand, sell antique" – a dealer's favourite – has an element of truth to it.

The phrase dark pattern design is pretty antique in Internet terms, though you'll likely have heard it being bandied around quite a bit of late.

The phrase "aiding the enemy" has an antique ring to it and is not usually associated with something done with a computer.

But in their fragmented state these tonal phrases appeared like the shards of an antique vessel: beautiful, but no longer able to carry water.