Sentence examples for no paraphrase from inspiring English sources
No paraphrase can hope to recapture the imaginative resources displayed in the telling of the story and the structuring of the poem as a work of art.
No paraphrase that I could offer in my version of the story - a story as full of incident as any biographer might wish for - could convey the mix of claustrophobia and alienation packed into those lines.
In Experiment 2b, no paraphrases focused on the presupposed facts, perhaps because the context scenarios asserted that the consequent of the conditional had occurred (e.g., 'Joseph's finger bled').
No paraphrases used probabilistic terms such as 'probably' or 'maybe' or 'likely' and very few used related terms such as 'usually', or 'at times'; very few used modal auxiliaries such as 'may', or 'could' (2% of all paraphrases in Experiment 2a and 1% in Experiment 2b).
The great media critic A.J. Liebling was fond of saying about himself, in comparison to other writers, and we paraphrase: "No one better was faster, and no one faster was better".
When no such paraphrase is available, he considered that normative language is meaningless.
Unsurprisingly, they answered (and I'm paraphrasing), "No, 15-year-old-daughter, you obviously may not stay at your much older boyfriend's house".
To paraphrase Toronto-born comedian Russell Peters, "No, no, no.
To which, blessedly, I can reply by paraphrasing Office Space: "No, there was nothing wrong with that name, until I was about 16 years old and that no-talent assclown started running for governor of the state I lived in".
No one, to paraphrase P.T. Barnum, will ever go broke underestimating the ability of the American public to take personal responsibility for greater societal woes.
