Sentence examples for linguistic tricks from inspiring English sources

First, there are the Orwellian linguistic tricks.

It's so bad, in fact, that I've resorted to all sorts of mental and linguistic tricks.

Karren Brady, West Ham United FC's vice chair and star of BBC show The Apprentice, did not need to use the linguistic tricks, she had noticed.

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.

At a rough estimate, half of what we find amusing involves using little linguistic tricks to conceal the subject of our sentences until the last possible moment, so that it appears we are talking about something else.

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Grinspoon agreed: "The strange linguistic trick of saying it is 'a dwarf planet and a dwarf planet is not a planet', that just seemed vindictive".

The linguistic trick is to use the Persian word for the mountain goat's fur and to ignore the name of the place -- Kashmir, pronounced cashmere -- where the weaving into wool is done.

Having pulled the linguistic trick of equating judicial review with a judicial monopoly over constitutional truth, Kramer is ready to break up that monopoly with remedies far more disquieting than just urging Congress to confront the court more forcefully over matters like religious freedom.

In particular he looks at the way in which she uses lengthy and elaborate similes as a means of obfuscation rather than elucidation; a linguistic trick that allows the reader to physically experience the narrator's feelings of detachment and abstraction.

But the Australian Capital Territory (in effect, Canberra, the capital) recently passed a law that stated: "a civil union is different to a marriage but is to be treated for all purposes under territory law in the same way as a marriage"" Seeing a bid to allow gay marriage with a linguistic trick, Mr Howard said on Tuesday June 6th that the government would nullify Canberra's move.