Sentence examples for inappropriate phrase from inspiring English sources

It's tempting, indeed, to wonder if "the Arab world", that singularly inappropriate phrase which we Westerners invented along with "the Middle East", any longer has meaning.

In a recent blog post, I used an inappropriate phrase to refer to the late VP of PR for Chick-fil-A.

Joie de vivre may seem an inappropriate phrase right now, but like the candles on the streets of Paris, its flames flicker still.

(In the speech he also argued that "quantitative easing," the term markets have used to describe the bond-buying strategy, was an "inappropriate" phrase because it usually referred to policies that aim to change the quantity of bank reserves, rather than affect interest rates, as the Fed is trying to do).

Trevor Phillips writes of the 'rise' of a'global Muslim community, over a billion strong' which 'presents a challenge to the West more significant even than the Soviet Union'; a 'global force' which threatens to present us with new 'Cold War', and of a 'battle for the hearts and minds of Muslims' - a particularly inappropriate phrase in the current climate.

Where anything is being written or said, there are spies on hand to report inappropriate phrases.

In several past cases, the way young children were questioned was deemed flawed because of inappropriate phrasing.

Another of Harding's pretentious and inappropriate phrases – "the juxtaposition of one person to another" – ironically has relevance to how the film was made.

Such nicely turned but inappropriate phrases might be less noticeable if Strauss hadn't demonstrated elsewhere how well he can directly convey the singular perceptions — and misperceptions — of his creations.

Meanwhile, the language-tapes essay takes the comedy of inappropriate phrases ("We don't live here, we wanted mineral water") and spins them into something touching: a hymn to our flailing effort to communicate across cultures, to look up sweet nothings in our phrasebooks and whisper them speculatively through the dark.

Coprolalia - saying socially inappropriate phrases, swearing, death threats.