Sentence examples for if he invented from inspiring English sources

He tosses around D.S.L. jargon as if he invented it.

If he invented anything, it was the cult of influence itself.

He is criticized for talking as if he invented the doctrine of humanitarian intervention all on his own.

It was a very special argot, and I should not be surprised if he invented some of it.

The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, he says, wrote him once, asking if he invented the idea of employing the word as a synonym for a long-term penetration agent.

The mayor has talked about countdown clocks for public transit as if he invented them; but in fact, says the authority, it has had plans to start introducing them for all the numbered train lines as early as January, although it says it'll probably take a year to complete that task.

If he invents or suppresses material in order to create an effect, he fails truth; if he is content to recount facts, he fails art.

The spin here is that Landry believes that if he invents some fearless, womanizing type, he might swap lives with him and thus acquire some of that genre's sangfroid.

Blair couldn't even admit that his war had made the world a worse place than it was beforehand, first lambasting the "conspiracy theories" of those who think he lied, and then indulging in a piece of sci-fi alternate-history, in which the violence of the Iraq War is only delayed until the Arab Spring, as if a little story he invented could excuse the lives he snuffed out.

Rubbery-featured and cheerful, Stoll makes "You're dead to me" sound as if he'd invented the phrase.

Memling manages the gentle thrust of chins and noses so well it's as if he had invented them.