Sentence examples for clever phrasing from inspiring English sources

I imagine that this is what it would feel like to be the antagonist in one of Drake's songs, one of the featureless exes whose only purpose is to support him, to hold a mirror up to him, stuck in a relationship where sweet nothings are tossed off for the sake of a clever phrasing, where you are little more than furniture in someone else's movie.

The report's clever phrasing, that the troop increase is "challenging" the spread of the insurgency without stopping it, invites the reader to give the Pentagon a grade of "E" for "effort," like your kindergarten teacher used to do when your coloring projects didn't turn out quite right.

("He thinks up clever phrases," Sanguinetti said. "But he has destroyed the language").

We were told inflation "has been" - a clever phrase - the lowest for 30 years.

"Gradual annihilation": it's a clever phrase, with the "gradual" as reassuring as the "annihilation" is absolute.

Plays, treatises, speeches — all were to him just clever phrases strung together, so many "words, words, words".

Each glorious chorus or sharp beat or clever phrase comes as a surprise, slowly rising out of a warm musical fog and disappearing again.

It's one thing to coin a clever phrase, as Pat Riley did when, as the Lakers' coach, he said, "No rebounds, no rings".

"The Gymnast, High Above the Ground" is full of clever phrases and exotic slang, but the chorus made a simpler sort of sense.

It is a clever phrase: painting a picture of plucky Scotland setting out into the wider world, but within a reassuring European embrace.This must seem a triumph for the European Union's founding fathers.

On the topic of his son, the elder Mr. Jackson seems for once to be without a clever phrase to crystallize a situation, and at one point this summer slipped away from reporters through the back kitchen of a hotel.