Sentence examples for is language as from inspiring English sources

This is language as assault.

One barrier is language, as few foreigners learn Thai.

The ground I am thinking of in this case is language as we meet it in its "commonsense" mode.

This is language as speculative decay, losing its grip on reality which – as we have known since Saussure – it has never had anyway.

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This is language as nothing but cliche, and as funny as that can be denying the linguistic excellence of beautifully blunt headlines like "Michelle Keegan in club brawl terror: TV beauty saved from 3am birthday bust-up" or "SHOCK VID: Vicious club brawl erupts with dozens of boozed-up lads throwing punches" would be churlish beyond belief it comes at a price.

It was language as grains of sand".

It's language as a blade that cuts straight to the bone (funny/scary/sexy…).

"It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play".

"Performance" was language as it was used every day: ephemeral sentences, made imperfect by slips of the tongue, lapses of attention, idiosyncratic mistakes, odd neighborhood locutions.

It was language as I knew it, but rethought, restructured, revived; it was a rush of joy and rhythm and breath.