"Mr President," he shot back, "I'm not yours, I'm the Senate's".A hard startEugene McCarthy, a fellow senator who liked a fine phrase, said of Mr Mansfield that "a man of gentle exterior can be framed in steel".
In the biologist Dorit's (1997) fine phrase, 'The hand of God may be all around us, but it is not, nor can it be, the task of science to dust for fingerprints'.
He reflects, in a fine phrase, that with the fall of the Soviet Union, "capitalism had lost its memento mori".
Her version shifts the moral center of the poem from the anger of Achilles and the death of Hector to an oral history of the dead (in her fine phrase, an "oral cemetery").
To be sure, each essay demonstrates an immense breadth of learning, and there are occasional moments of fine phrasing, as when Mr Coetzee observes of Jorge Luis Borges's teasing fiction that it "takes its course with the certainty of a game of chess in which the reader is always a move behind the author".
Even his earliest articles displayed the motifs of his future film career: a love for classic American movies, political films, and documentaries; a taste for grandiose speculation and fine phrases; and a conflation of his idea of cinema and his idea of himself.
Jacobson has many talents – as a rhetorician, a mud-slinger, a purveyor of fine phrases and sprightly patter, as an indefatigable singer of the song of himself.
The report talks of the benefits of integrating HIV prevention and treatment programmes with other health and social-welfare services, and other such fine phrases, but the direct consequences of such things are hard to measure.
You'll need a firm grasp of the economy, and a fine turn of phrase to explain to the hard-pressed British public why the economy is still flat on its back.
