Sentence examples for basic idiom from inspiring English sources

In fact, the genre's greatest strength and greatest weakness is that no matter how far the graphic novel verges toward realism, its basic idiom is always a little, well, cartoonish.

Her basic idiom, in fact, was tough and gritty; it is a rare pleasure these days to encounter a young composer grappling with real emotional and psychological issues in fresh and modern terms rather than falling back on an easy post-Romanticism.

McNamara 2004a also makes the case that a person's being obligated to be such that a certain condition holds (e.g., being obligated to be at home at noon, as promised) is the more basic idiom, and being obligated to bring about something is just being obligated to be such that you do bring it about.

He offered examples that aren't appropriate here, but it's important to note that an academic on the other side of the planet is learning about basic idioms and nuances of Western language.

To highlight this, two basic Spanish idioms, were quoted in a Spanish newspaper article and in a banner hung at the front of a local branch of the Red Cross.

To the credit of the Western Chalukya architects is the development of the lathe turned (tuned) pillars and use of Soapstone (Chloritic Schist) as basic building and sculptural material, a very popular idiom in later Hoysala temples.

(It's the exceptions and idioms that kill you!) Learn those basic rules and see if you can memorize 100 words.

It's not an idiom I admire or enjoy, but, as with the basic elegance of "Vivaldi," there was enough style for the audience to feel that the music by Astor Piazzolla and Jacob Gade ("Jealousy") wasn't being traduced.

Here it may be worth somehow combining the Devitt-Horwich view with Fodor's aforementioned cousin suggestion of the asymmetric counterfactual (cf. Rey 2009): the new "dead" uses of an idiom or metaphor no longer asymmetrically depend upon the explanatorily basic use.

Yes, the haircuts and fashions alter somewhat, and the technological environment changes perceptibly, but the basic shape of civilization -- in particular its sexual mores and idioms of feeling -- seems remarkably constant, and seems, moreover, to be observed with almost documentary naturalism.

If you know the most basic aspects of the language of interior design, you can speak in any idiom, be it modern or traditional or in between.