Sentence examples for idioms from inspiring English sources

Mr Kourouma denounces the iniquity of adults who, in Africa as elsewhere, fight their wars by proxy, sending children to their death on the front line.A resilient, endearing lad, Birahima survives this ordeal, and unexpectedly acquires an armful of dictionaries which help him to tell his story with a curious blend of "wise French words" and exotic idioms; the resulting blend is delightful.

Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.

Slang, idioms, and complex grammatical constructions are just some obstacles online translators face.

Hold out your left hand; that's a waning moon.Richard Smith Los AngelesSIR – With due respect to the use of historical idioms by both Lexington and Mark Twain (Letters, February 26th), I prefer the following: Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.Jason Gart Rockville, Maryland* Letter appears online only.

He delights in the flourishes and idioms of speech, and in Mr Waltz, who won an Oscar for "Inglourious Basterds", he's found the perfect mouthpiece.

With a vocabulary of just 1,500 words and no idioms, abbreviations or humour, it focuses on the essentials and leaves out everything that makes cross-cultural communication difficult.

AMONG the four-character idioms that all Japanese schoolchildren must learn is kan son min pi ("respect officials, despise the people").

You can agree with him that "the spatial fluidity and linear transparency of Indian tradition" are far more lively, discerning and informative than the European idioms of the day.

CELTIC politicians tend to think and talk in the rhythms and idioms of the church.

The devotees of a particular philosopher or field have usually been allowed to use the idioms and jargon that come most naturally to them, regardless of the demands of intelligibility to others.

So Mr Wride invented a computer program that allows users to slow films down, hear explanations of various idioms and even speak the actors' lines for them.For all their reputation as misfits, innovators tend to be great networkers.