Sentence examples for language flat from inspiring English sources
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flat - but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer - the fountain is awakened from its inmost recesses as if the spirit of affliction had troubled it in his passage".
"The language is flat and feeble," said Philip Hope-Wallace in the Guardian.
Aukin has the actors deliver Shepard's tonal language in flat voices, with a marked lack of theatricality.
Released from his political responsibilities, Pedersen concentrated on developing an almost abstract language of flat, coloured planes and thick dark lines, exemplified by Bird Which Eats in 1939.
"I grew up in a new town, Hemel Hempstead, where there was absolutely no vowel meadow, and where the spoken language was flat, a version of London watered down by a mild accumulation of the various modes of speech of the many people who had moved there from all over the place".
These houses speak in the architectural language of flat roofs, open floor plans and maximum connection to the outdoors.
Ambivalent subtleties and poetic analogies may be domain to both music and language, but flat statements that can either be true or false are native to the word alone.
Beneath the pop-culture references and the determinedly flat language is a wellspring of anguish.
He takes the flat language of ad-speak and twists it into exciting new shapes.
Notice how sly the language is, not flat but spare, and how the energy and abruptness contained in the verb "accosted" gives tension to the whole poem.
He delivered an account of those next minutes in the flat language of the police, which seemed to be coming from a different man entirely from the frazzled officer on the 911 tape.
