Sentence examples for descriptive phrase from inspiring English sources

He was just using a descriptive phrase to indicate that you looked like something less than human".

On the contrary, they may coexist in a single (artificial) linguistic form or a single descriptive phrase.

By Fred Packard The New Yorker, January 12 , 1946P. 83 Description of a man who takes a multiple word, splits it in two and juggles it around a bit to turn it into a descriptive phrase.

No longer can its styles be summed up in a descriptive phrase or two, like plush, concentrated cabernet sauvignon; lush, jammy pinot noir; buttery oak-bomb chardonnay; or extravagantly ripe, blockbuster zinfandel.

He could tune in to watch the American men's basketball team that defies nicknames, but as Marc Stein writes on ESPN.com, after its demolition of top rival Spain in a pre-Olympic warm-up, the only descriptive phrase necessary is "best team in the world by far".

"He diligently supervised its multiple adventures its brief spiralling rise, its determined fall (like a sycamore seed, a helicopter blade, an injured grouse on the wing), its eventual splash-landing, its half-hearted floating, its gradual submerging, with a strong, with a wicked, with a powerful sense of satisfaction".Why settle for a descriptive phrase when a whole prose-poem will do?

One advantage of Blink is that descriptive phrases can be added to identify each link, while a browser like Internet Explorer allows only the site's title.

Everett also learned that the Pirahã have no fixed words for colors, and instead use descriptive phrases that change from one moment to the next.

To foil keyword filters, Mr Xia replaces sensitive words such as "freedom" and "elections" with uncommon or approximate synonyms, or descriptive phrases.

"The book does not quite hold up to the very best of Lessing's realistic fiction, which does not mean it's not an engaging read or not shot through with wonderful descriptive phrases," John Rockwell said here earlier this year.

(I mean the stock of often-repeated descriptive phrases, such as the "wine-dark" sea and Achilles "of the swift feet", which were probably used as metrically prefabricated units by the early oral bards who improvised these stories).