Sentence examples for biting phrases from inspiring English sources
At the end, in curt, biting phrases, he delivered the line "By far the best life is the one that cannot be lived" over motoric arpeggios in the strings.
And against the band's weave of melodic lines — each member adding his bright contribution — Mr. Fleck, who recently traveled around Africa playing banjo with local musicians for a film and recording project, played hard, shortened, biting phrases, sounding strikingly different from his usual genial virtuosity.
Experimentation, alternately focused, rapt and klutzy, was the order of the day, whether in canny live-from-the-television-studio takeoffs by Larry Miller and Martha Rosler, or in Richard Serra's "Television Delivers People," which consists of politically biting phrases scrolling down the screen to a Muzak score.
Obama's address did not have memorable sound bite phrases.
Mr. Brown borrowed the concluding sound bite phrase from Mr. Blair's speech to the conference last year -- "best when boldest" -- but shaped it to his own reference, adding "best when we are Labor".
Tom Sharpe, whose savage pen and biting turns of phrase helped to earn him the title of the master of British farce, has died aged 85.
Early on, stealing an idea from Blanca and quashing objections to the theft, Elektra lectures, "Just because you have an idea does not mean you know how to properly execute it". Jackson bites off the phrase "properly execute" in a manner heretofore unheard in the history of English, laying equal stress on each vicious syllable.
Of course she has phenomenal technical equipment and, it would seem, a big, luscious tone that can also bite into a phrase.
Each phrase described movements involving one of three body parts: the mouth (as in "biting the peach"), the hand ("grasping the pen"), or the foot ("pressing the car brake").
Trop., biting, disposed to bite.
