Sentence examples for delicate phrase from inspiring English sources

The twilight years — that delicate phrase.

Who are the "certain folks," in Judge Evans's delicate phrase, that the Indiana law is trying to discourage?

She was hungry for sensual experience but had, in her own delicate phrase, "a delayed sense of consequence".

"Parallel importing", meaning retailers taking advantage of cross-border price differences to undercut regular prices, "creates confusion", to use the delicate phrase of Ferruccio Ferragamo, head of the Italian luxury-goods company founded by his shoe-making father, Salvatore.

Then those unmistakeable opening chords of You Can Call Me Al burst out of the soundsystem and my not-so-long-lost-pal and I, for want of a more delicate phrase, lost our shit.

In the arsenal now being assembled on the payment side of health care to address rising costs, reference pricing may well turn out to be the sleeper, because it is a potentially powerful method of "putting the patient's skin in the game," the delicate phrase we use for "cost-sharing by patients".

Hear his love of blues music in this track, his delicate phrasing and powerful delivery.

The physician will, of course, be fluent in standard clinical language, including ordinary medical terminology and the delicate phrases of care and compassion.

The rich timbre of her lower register and the soaring high notes reveal her impressive range and delicate phrasing, delivered from a delightful, almost coquettish stance.

When they flew in, their negotiators were still in the throes of detailed talks on a text, arguing over the placement of commas and delicate phrasing.

The real godfather to the play's dandy thuggery, its blend of threat and sex, of fierce feeling and delicate phrasing, and its love of London, is Harold Pinter.