Sentence examples for be an odd phrase from inspiring English sources

People are always talking about Orwell's decency, but "Orwellian decency" would be an odd phrase indeed.

"But it is an odd phrase and has this connotation of navel-gazing".

("End" being an odd phrase, as we still have fifty thousand troops there, Shiite-Sunni tensions are increasing, and the March elections have yet to produce a new government; in the months since, Iraq's parliament has met for only twenty minutes).

Which is an odd phrase to throw in there.

As for the other subjects: "Foreign hot spots" is an odd phrase.

"Suffered attack" is an odd phrasing, and in any case, "neither" is singular.

They will, for example, have a new obligation to meet in what the NYSE calls "executive session"—an odd phrase, given that executives will not be present.

It's an odd turn of phrase; something about it doesn't quite scan.

For a president trying to reach out to an angry electorate, it was an odd turn of phrase.

So I want to point out something that, if not exactly a mistake, is an odd turn of phrase that shows how idiosyncratic Wolff's book is.

"Bucke-basket," they point out, is a peculiar phrase, odd to have isolated in a scholarly work like a dictionary.