Sentence examples for is saying of from inspiring English sources

Lawyers for Kaupthing pointed to evidence submitted by Investec, insisting it showed: "That is exactly what the parent is saying, of course".

"I'VE painted four cows," Edwina Sandys, the artist and sculptor, is saying, of -- oh, why bother trying to stop ourselves; if you've been walking around town you can see it's going to be a very silly day -- her current cowmission.

I will call the first kind 'verbal writers' and the second kind 'visual writers'…" Fine, though comically pompous (it's as if he's afraid he's going too fast for the audience) – but only a few sentences later he is saying: "Of course, no writer can be placed solely on one side or the other of such a divide".

If one of the other characters in the book happens to remark that he dislikes cats and Eleanor says at once that she likes cats, but only white ones, what she is saying, of course, is that she likes white cats and has a dream of living alone in a little cottage covered with roses with an old lady praying for her and oleander bushes by the door.

The phrase "what it is to be" and its variants are crucial: giving a definition is saying, of some existent thing, what it is, not simply specifying the meaning of a word (Aristotle does recognize definitions of the latter sort, but he has little interest in them).

"It used to be a trade paper," Variety Editor in Chief Peter Bart is saying of his bailiwick.

What is said of Mary is derived from what is said of Jesus: this was the basic meaning of Theotokos.

Furthermore, nothing is said of what happens with the intervening four monomeric tails.

That was what was said of him.

The same cannot be said of Spain".

The same cannot be said of Shorten.