The use of the phrase "highly telling" in written English is certainly correct and usable.
The phrase generally implies that a particular statement reveals something significant or important. For example, "His choice of words was highly telling; it was clear he was trying to express his unhappiness with the situation."
The natural rivalry between Fifa and Uefa quickly asserted itself and Blatter, in a highly telling gripe, claimed to have felt "sidelined" at the opening ceremony of the 2008 European Championships in Switzerland, because his VIP seat was eight along from the centre.
As an aside, the pricing is highly telling.
What we thought was unusual and highly telling, however, were the number of people on social media doubting anything and everything about Bland's jail experience, visual and otherwise..@blogdiva Experts: q's re mug shot garb & physical state highlight need for timeline starting from arrest on 10th, NOT just the 13th..@blogdiva More q's for state: Were more mugs taken?
Yet his account of her one real mission for the Germans — a 1943 covert operation code-named Modellhut ("model hat") in which she was meant to use her contacts to get a message to Winston Churchill from the SS stating that a number of leading Nazis wanted to break with Adolf Hitler and negotiate a separate peace with England — emerges neither clearly nor logically from his highly detailed telling.
Unlike a typical "Dateline" segment, "In the Shadow of Justice" feels highly personal, told without narration, mostly through the nearly 300 hours shot by Mr. Slepian.
The shortlist is completed by Eva Dolan's highly topical Tell No Tales, in which DI Zigic and DS Ferreira of the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit investigate the murder of migrant workers, and Rain Dogs, the fifth outing for Adrian McKinty's Belfast-based 1980s maverick RUC inspector Sean Duffy.
Not a lot happens otherwise, but Mendelson scores highly on the telling phrase, delivered with lashings of old-school charm.
The French salonnières who began telling highly wrought contes des fées in the 1670s were unlikely to have read Straparola, Basile, Peele or Shakespeare.
The profession had reached a point, he warned, "where dazzling people with the unfamiliar and erudite was more highly prized than telling a good story or distilling wisdom".
Unfortunately, these tests did not use the highly pungent and aversive, to humans, natricine gland secretions, although the lack of response to the highly toxic rattlesnake is telling.
Pitted against him are a bitterly cold GP and a deputy headmaster crippled by irreconcilable ambivalence towards his son, an unnervingly self-possessed adolescent whose subversion takes the unusual but highly effective form of telling the truth.
