Sentence examples for mincing from inspiring English sources

And the way to win them is through rather cautious, mincing arguments about the costs and benefits of independence, of precisely the kind that Mr Darling and his nationalist opponent, Alex Salmond, are making.

Pharmaceutical companies are already mincing up marine creatures known as sea cucumbers that may yet provide drugs for treating cancer.

Furiously mincing his words, Mr Hoon said he regretted her husband's death, but hasn't apologised for it.On the face of it, it may not seem that he needs to.

Mincing few words, she adds: "We are struggling with corruption, with mismanagement by our government.

There's something insalubrious about his Inspector Clouseau, a camp, mincing, blithely destructive senior citizen with the hormones of an adolescent and the intellect of a toddler.

He's in a bit of a flap because the butchers, the esteemed WH Frost of Chorlton, have mixed the sausage and pudding by hand instead of mincing them together as they usually do.

Stefan Collini is reaching for the gate long after the bolting horse has been caught, minced and boiled into glue.

And FDR does not mince words, decrying the tyranny of "economic royalists" and confidently articulating the role of government.

Speaking to me last Friday at the modernist 1990s building designed for the Strasbourg court by by Richard Rogers, Bratza did not mince his words.

Related: Sex on the beach: a brief history of Cannes and erotic cinema Karlsen, who is the chair of Women in Film and Television, doesn't mince words about how the film industry has failed to adequately represent women.

WHEN China's sovereignty is at issue Global Times, a Beijing newspaper, does not mince words.