Sentence examples for difficult to rephrase from inspiring English sources
Although we sometimes report intention as a propositional attitude—'I intend that p' such reports can always be recast as 'intending to…' as when I intend to bring about that p. By contrast, it is difficult to rephrase such mundane expressions as 'I intend to walk home' in propositional terms.
During the pretest study, participants were asked to complete the questionnaire and comment on words or sentences that were difficult to understand as well as to rephrase problematic items [ 28].
Perhaps better to rephrase.
MR. WISENBERG: I'll be happy to rephrase it.
Perhaps it's time to rephrase that dig.
Or, to rephrase, how confident are you in your ability to take a punch?
Or to rephrase Clausewitz's old dictum, was warfare for them just profit by other means?
To rephrase Tolstoy: All luxury is the same, but misery for each person uniquely horrible.
To rephrase (and sanitize) the wailing on the discussion boards: What the [bleep]!
They rush to rephrase their tweets, and to explain this complicated news in a hundred and forty characters.
