Sentence examples for dry term from inspiring English sources

Chuck D describes Public Enemy as an "information portal": a dry term but an accurate one.

Experts refer to such desperate arrangements by the dry term "transactional sex".

Although the dry term "cross curricula" does no justice to charm of a book that's inspired children for more than 40 years, it's absolutely what it achieved.

And there is ample agritourism — a distinctly dry term for such delectable activities as tasting olive oils and shopping for fresh herbs and produce at farms and markets.

It is fascinating to see that so many people listed have made use of the civil ceremony legislation -although this dry term seems destined to be forgotten: everyone refers to "marrying".

In the preface to his book on D-Day, Mr. Astor wrote that "only through the words and memories of the men who fought that day does one grasp a sense of what war is about, how it consumes human lives and what is masked by the dry term 'casualties.'" "Combat is a terrible experience," Mr. Astor told CNN 60 years after the end of World War II.

China's one-child policy, often discussed in the rather dry terms of population or abortion statistics, is a ripe subject for a novel.

Those dry terms skirt a widespread dissatisfaction with the modernist dogma of art's hermetic autonomy, and also with the jokes on it played by Duchamp and his legions of progeny.

His keynote speech is a perfect example: speaking extemporaneously, he delivers his words with an almost shockingly plain sincerity, distilling thrills, highs and lows, psychological strategizing and practical action, from the potentially dry terms of the financial conditions of his filmmaking.

It also means becoming much more actively involved in external debates and in the media on social issues that shape their business context.A starting point may be for CEOs to articulate publicly the purpose of business in less dry terms than shareholder value.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton described the situation to Macquarie Radio in typically dry terms: "The first 12 people that have had their visas canceled under Section 501 of the [Migration] Act, so they've failed the character test, they've gone back to New Zealand," he said.