A home spun philosopher and master of the cleverly turned phrase, he will be greatly missed by family and friends.
"Death panel" was simply a lie, but it was also a fine example of Unspeak: a cleverly engineered phrase that smuggles in a dubious argument.
When Francesco Piccolo jots down a thought or a cleverly turned phrase into his black Moleskine notebook, the Italian novelist feels steeped in a literary tradition built by such celebrated scribes as Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin.
We can marvel over a cleverly-strung phrase with as much gusto as we admire a painter's canvas or a sculptor's carving.
It's always been the paper's intention to cleverly use "words and phrases together with shock tactics to get ourselves noticed".
Jean is the one who gets a first-person narrative, though, as she reveals her private relief that her husband has died, because it means "no more of his nonsense", a chilling phrase that Barton cleverly leaves hanging.
Roa Bastos cleverly demonstrates this political isolation/marginalization by constantly introducing Guaraní phrases, phrases which are incomprehensible to most readers, phrases from a spoken, not written language.
Add a letter or letters (usually the same ones, sometimes not) to a group of words or phrases, change them to something new and punny, and clue them cleverly based on the new words or phrases.
I love Bach in particular for his use of two-part melodies and his way of repeating phrases and modulating so cleverly into related keys and tones.
David Harrower's astute new script, not gaudily phrased but politically idiomatic, cleverly questions democracy itself, and the danger of X Factor politics.
As for Uber's biggest competitor, a spokesperson for Lyft referred me to a flashy shutdown-specific spread online, which cleverly removed the L's from the phrase "Lyft plan".
