Sentence examples for mincing expression from inspiring English sources
One of the first films that Hollywood produced about itself, "Show People" stars Marion Davies as Polly Pepper, a Southern girl who finds success as a pie-catcher in slapstick comedies but decides that she must remake herself as the classier Patricia Pepoire, star of big-budget costume dramas, deployer of a mincing expression that makes her resemble a muskrat.
But "Forget You!" can seem inauthentic — the peculiar phrase for such foul-mouthed-turned-mealy-mouthed expressions is "minced oaths" — and probably will not get the girl's attention.
To determine HER2/ neu expression in vivo, tumors were resected and minced using a scalpel in HBSS (Lonza) containing 5 mM EDTA.
Fourteen post-septic and Sham mice were infected with BCG and 24 hours after challenge the lungs were collected, minced and digested to investigate the cytokine production, gene expression and phenotype analysis.
Our results are also concordant with transcription factor binding site ChIP-seq data obtained using the mincing strategy, as well as DNaseI hypersensitive sites, histone modifications, and gene expression profiles.
He gives Bernie a mincing walk — but not too mincing.
Dad called it "mincing the mince".
Gay men are mincing fairies.
Nor does mincing confer gayness.
But why bother mincing words?
