Sentence examples for defining phrase from inspiring English sources
They are the coda to a legendary career -- that of Louis H. Sullivan, the turn-of-the-century Chicago architect best known for coining the defining phrase of modern architecture, "Form follows function".
As Feste, the clown whose calming presence brings original music (composed by John Gromada) and restores a semblance of order to chaos, Mr. Beckett radiates assured actorly presence, standing apart, observing "midsummer madness," the play's defining phrase, with sweet resignation.
The defining phrase is obviously impredicative.
In the days before the NHS's official launch, every British household received a letter containing a defining phrase that summed up its impact: "It will relieve your money worries in time of illness".
Moreover, negatives and quantifiers (i.e., such words as all and every), which in English are logical operators that have scope over syntactically defined phrase structures, have no exact counterparts in languages without well-defined syntactic phrases; such languages must use other devices to express or imply similar concepts.
Washington put emphasis on the "mutually defined" phrase, suggesting Iran would require negotiated consent.
stands for virtual reality — a loosely defined phrase that is now being applied to several related forms of visual media.
Although this is a poorly defined phrase, it was long ago recognized that serious illness saps one's spiritual resources as well as one's physical strength so that one is not able to meet the crisis of mortal danger with all one's powers.
The Moscow musicians illuminated the stormy sections with fiery precision and sharply defined phrases.
Mr. Chailly opened the second half with a vigorous rendition of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World," with fast tempos, dramatic shadings and sharply defined phrasing.
His conducting favors cleanly defined phrases aggressively accented, and yet his conducting of Bruckner's Adagio movement seemed to disgorge this statuesque music in one, long, smoothly shaped breath.
