Sentence examples for linguistic tics from inspiring English sources
They don't follow fashion or incorporate the latest linguistic tics.
As with other linguistic tics, a writer's own propensities will more than likely bleed through.
Individual authors will of course have their own idiosyncratic linguistic tics.
Yes, she has the nervy body language and linguistic tics down pat.
Most of Butler's sentences stretch beyond the hundred-word mark, kept aloft by repeating licks, linguistic tics, perforated by dashes and surprising, sometimes spectacular language.
He described himself as an American nationalist and a "Pulitzer-worthy journalist," and had adopted many of journalism's linguistic tics—his "scoops" were attributed to an entity he called Cernovich Media.
I have another linguistic tic, if I could make the rules.
The first thing to note about this audacious, distinctly Smithian – clever, mischievous, full of linguistic tricks and tics – and hugely entertaining collection is the absence of the titular story.
Linguistic ties matter too.
Such linguistic precision in the face of gore rubbed me wrong in other stories -- it felt chilly and mannered, a stylistic tic -- but in this one it fits.
