Sentence examples for fancy phrasing from inspiring English sources

Of course, fancy phrasing can be a distraction as well, and Powers occasionally stumbles.... ..... Percy himself stumbles more than occasionally.

That is an orc-chieftain in the mines of Moria; notice how Tolkien shrugs off the fancy phrasing and whacks us hard with Germanic monosyllables.

His review contains so many literary images, "fancy phrasing" and other conceits that he appears to be showcasing his own talents, such as they may be, as much as he is reviewing the novel.

Of course, fancy phrasing can be a distraction as well, and Powers occasionally stumbles — especially when Bartle is thoughtfully processing the war or staring moodily out at the landscape.

And you'll find no fancy phrases about the dishes.

The pose of seeing through other people's fancy phrases was part of this persona.

Alec, quoted most frequently as an England bowler and as a Test selector, never went in for fancy phrases.

Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

In the meantime, a few examples show the kind of things that might be possible.Many interesting possibilities are opened up by "user-generated location-specific content"—a fancy phrase for digital wireless graffiti.

Neither is the "representativeness heuristic," which is a fancy phrase for allowing salient details, such as the sight of bloodied bodies on a Paris sidewalk, to overload our brains and prevent a calm, probabilistic assessment of the dangers we face.

Quantitative easing, the third tranche of which was announced in the US last week (QE3), is just a fancy phrase for buying bonds, notably mortgage-backed-securities, in which operation the Federal Reserve takes assets from the banks and gives them cash.