Sentence examples for colloquial note from inspiring English sources

"I caught the colloquial note by instinct," he wrote later.

The book has a colloquial tone throughout.

[Good. Nice colloquial tone here.].

"Their words are colloquial," Locke notes, being the products of unlettered folk "but their mood is epic" giving emotive expression to experiences that exemplify the possibilities of humanity at its best (NN 201).

His command of colloquial idiom brought a note of realism to Russian classical literature.

It should be noted that colloquial names of recreational drugs change with time and differ between countries and communities, so it is not possible to give a contemporaneous and complete list of common street names for ketamine.

In response to reading the "Box 500 report" – the colloquial term for MI5 briefing notes – on 1 November 1984, the prime minister insisted her cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, "consider urgently whether there is any way these developments could be prevented, whether by denunciation or otherwise".

The interviews were colloquial conversations carefully recorded in field notes in line with the classic grounded theory dictum "all is data", see below.

("I hands my donations over"? Note the use of colloquial verbiage, a Dickensian trick designed to put us in mind of Bob Cratchit).

The tone is colloquial and occasionally witty.

Lope de Rueda was noted for the lively use of colloquial speech in his short comic sketches known as pasos.