Instead, each semester, I meet students who might be afraid of traditional English courses, but are drawn by the oddly warm and fuzzy phrase "creative writing".
Secondly, I will heartily agree with anyone, anywhere, who argues that "public-private partnership" is not the warm and fuzzy phrase it was made out to be in the 1990s.
You'll note that that's a very fuzzy phrase with no specific definition.
She thought the debate was civil, devoid of gotchas or zingers, though she was mildly annoyed at Mr. Bush's repeated use of the phrase "fuzzy math" to describe Mr. Gore's criticisms.
In the first episode, while Larry talks about a science teacher who climbed naked out of a papier-mâché monkey to rebut the theory of evolution, he asks out loud, "Can I get a flashback on this?" Refused a flashback by the imaginary director, Larry and the acting principal joke about whether the presumed censors will allow the phrase "fuzzy monkey".
Science and technical editing may be more structured and "formal" than is other editing (such as marketing materials, business communications, newsletters, etc)., but there are still opportunities to clean up a "fuzzy" area, turn a phrase into a better one, and, perhaps more importantly, provide clarity for topics that may be complex.
Often associated with fancy French cuisine, frog legs don't exactly scream "accessible," and they almost certainly won't give you that warm and fuzzy feeling that the phrase "eating sustainably" imparts.
On the economy, Mr. Maloney accused Mr. Nielsen of catching "the fuzzy math disease," employing the phrase used by Mr. Bush to criticize Vice President Al Gore in the first presidential debate.
Driving, fuzzy rhythms grind under Dylan-esque phrasing, with singer Caleb Followill's whiskey-woozy voice and good-time attitude never obscuring his obvious fears.
As the sun moves overhead, light pours through the etchings and projects the phrases on the ground, fuzzy at first, then clear, then gone again.
Lindblom credits Owsen with coining some of the game's "most iconic phrases", such as "say fuzzy pickles".
