Sentence examples for given a neat from inspiring English sources

The Gospel of St Mark is the template, but everything is given a neat twist.

More recently, this tiny space was taken over by Mark Butcher, given a neat, retro makeover and a new foodie direction.

In one of his oracular "story notes," Harrison writes, "This is the first story of mine in which the question is more important than any possible answer I could have given," a neat cop-out that actually does this amusing story a disservice by introducing another level of cliché.

Her Belle is given a neat feminist twist ― she's the inventor, not her father.

Today, Sergei Nayakshin at the University of Leicester in the UK gives a neat account of this new thinking.

And Pip Carter gives a neat cameo as Otto's svelte aide-de-camp.

An 1899 article in the the Mercury described her at a church benefit as giving a "neat, intelligent and amusing little speech, in good idiomatic English.

In his post-match interview Alastair Cook gave a neat insight into the challenges of batting on the subcontinent, as demonstrated by the events of Sunday afternoon.

Though we probably won't be using gesture-control systems to design many rockets (real or toy) in the near future, the video does give a neat sneak peek at what may eventually be possible as the technology evolves.

Mr King casts an unsparing light on the rather less heroic reality, of collaboration and denunciation.He also gives a neat account of the city's greatest cinematographic appearance: in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film of the mutiny on the Potemkin.

He gives a neat example of how translator Anthea Bell uses particularly English idioms to translate a joke in an Asterix speech bubble; and some of us may fondly call to mind Captain Haddock's "Blistering barnacles!", transferring to a different letter the alliteration of the milliards de mille sabords in Hergé's text.