Sentence examples for bare phrasing from inspiring English sources

In the second movement, largely because of this alienated violin tone and the bare phrasing that went with it, even the basic level of charm was missing, never mind all the ironies of unpretentious dancing as an appropriate response to death.

"I am a popular artist for the daily life," Polke remarked, leaving me to envision a notion of daily life that is a good deal more intricate than the bare phrase suggests.

The bare-knuckle phrases grow didactic calluses.

Face tattoos baring obscene phrases are common this is a complex blend between ego and self-destruction.

Generic terms (like birds in Birds fly) are expressed in English by means of bare common noun phrases (without determiner).

That said, he concedes that there will always be certain elements of this whenever the phrase bare knuckle comes up.

He nails people with just a few words; strips them bare with a single phrase.

"Bare knuckle" is a phrase that seems to run deep in the collective imagination of the British Isles.

In its bare form, however, the phrase gives no indication of the precise nature of the duty, nor of its limits.

Professor Stanley Wells, in the latest of his many superb studies of the writer to whom he has devoted most of his working life, plunges deep into this fertile hinterland – though I had better watch my language after reading his chapter on "The Fun of Sex", where the double, triple and quadruple layers of filth to be detected in the most innocent phrase are laid bare.

Interestingly, again, this was the case for both bare noun naming and determiner-phrase naming.