Sentence examples for flat words from inspiring English sources

The evening passes by as a joyless succession of flat words, sounds and images that at best trigger memories of the vitality of the film that inspired it.

Van Hove treats the text as a kind of libretto, punctuating Miller's flat words with effects, such as the portentous beating of a small drum offstage as Eddie spins more and more out of control.

Indeed, van Hove treats the text as a kind of libretto, punctuating Miller's flat words with effects, such as the portentous beating of a small drum offstage as Eddie spins more and more out of control, like the frantic characters in Bausch's 1975 rendition of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," another piece about individuality and the community.

All "flat" words have an accent if they end in a consonant other than "n" or "s" (the letter "y" is considered a consonant).

And as I drive home through the beautiful county Noël Coward dismissed, I think about how she is at the service of her own cleverness and incapable of a flat word.

I have just been reading, in this careful book of a most intelligent & learned man, a number of flat conventional words & sentences.

This slight shift in musical direction was the result of a temporary relocation to a "dingy flat" (their words) in Bucharest, where they absorbed the country's literature and became obsessed with poet Veronica Micle, whose tragic life – she ended up killing herself in a monastery after the death of the love of her life – influences new single Last Breath.

Pick up the phone and talk with them -- hear their tone and inflection, which add sentiment to the otherwise flat, typed words.

And the Wallabies looked equally "flat" (the word coach Michael Cheika used) against Scotland.

The mood in the Manchester United dressing room was no longer flat – the word that Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick had used to describe it to Louis van Gaal in the run-up to the nearest thing English football has to a clasico.

On the side of one orange seven-storey block of flats, the words "humanity is not for sale" are painted on the wall in turquoise, along with the declaration, in black capital letters, that "there won't be a country that is distant as long as there is a friend nearby".