Sentence examples for idiom as though from inspiring English sources

The stock yank Gabe is a walking dictionary of cod-American idiom, as though he's freshly bumbled in from the midwest rather than lived in England for years.

Some of these pieces are, in their own idiom, as fine as native Chinese work.

The CDO makes digital a corporate an idiom as well as an emblem.

Obviously Marx keeps up with contemporary idiom, as well as current economic events.

Amidst the satire, Austen also speaks in a "psychological idiom that makes us feel, almost as though as it were our own, the experience of melancholy or distressed heroines like Anne Elliot or Elinor Dashwood". .

True Grit is a film about redemption, and both its theme and its idiom are as modern as WikiLeaks.

In his choreographic idiom here, though, Mr. Scarlett comes close to a separate cliché.

The idiom, as it turns out, is not so divergent from metropolitan English.

Occasionally, he seems to speak the same spiritual idiom as Dr. Barber.

It is more appropriate to treat the idiom as an adverbial group as well.

Readers might not think of such idioms as literary clichés, unless they are particularly egregious.