Sentence examples for captured in a phrase from inspiring English sources

One explanation was captured in a phrase appearing in some obituaries and echoed in most.

This notion is captured in a phrase often used to characterize Gestalt theory: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts".

The theme of Ms. O'Hara's untitled new show is captured in a phrase she used several times on Tuesday: "beyond the ingénue".

Writing in Variety at the time, Robert J. Landry captured, in a phrase, the event's instant significance: "Lincoln Center has extended important diplomatic recognition to the film medium as a performing art, thereby putting the close-up on a par with the pas de deux".

"I'm surprised to be surprised," Mr. Flosse said, capturing in a phrase both the expectations that Champagne creates and its occasional disappointments.

But it can also be captured in a simple phrase: the unmistakable feeling of being someplace else.

"We were captured in a trap.

One of these Really Bad Arguments is captured in the phrase "Defense of Marriage".

In With Heritage So Rich, the idea of continuity is captured in the phrase 'sense of orientation,' the idea that preservation gives & 'a sense of orientation to our society, using structures, and objects of the past to establish values of time and place.'".

This insight, captured in such a "marvellous phrase", dazzled Greenblatt into thinking the president had missed his vocation as an English professor, especially when Clinton went on to quote reams of Macbeth by heart.

In the late 18th century Motoori Norinaga, a leading literary scholar, summed up the essence of Japanese art and literature as the expression of a touching intimation of transience, which he captured in the famous phrase mono no aware, meaning roughly "the sensitivity to the sadness of things".