Sentence examples for convoluted phrasing from inspiring English sources
But instead of a clear statement of condemnation, politicians will discuss an opaque, tortuously-worded sentence, which aims to be unclear enough to keep everyone happy - with the sort of convoluted phrasing that the German language is so good at.
These convoluted phrases have given me far too many thought spasms.
He just arrives — sometimes as part of an extremely convoluted phrase — in a rock-solid position on one foot with no "voilà" to let us know that other dancers might find that hard.
In many cases, one or two words can say the same thing with greater impact than a long, convoluted phrase.
Critics say the phrasing is convoluted and uses economic terms such as "debt sustainability analysis" without providing any explanation of what they mean.
Even aside from the stray "the," the phrasing seems awfully convoluted, and the plural "include" does not agree with the singular "list".
The algorithm detected the negation of pertinent terms but was confused by particularly wordy or convoluted negation phrases e.g., "No obvious or real cough" or "No cough in the past few weeks but has started in the last day".
That phrase set off by commas, it a convoluted, preening muscle-flex, is a big problem.
Concerned less with powerful emotions (Affekten) and more with clarity, the southerners avoided intricate counterpoint and convoluted harmonic progressions, preferring a restricted chord vocabulary and clear-cut symmetrical phrasing dominated by tuneful melody.
The nomenclature is convoluted.
