Sentence examples for pieces of phrasing from inspiring English sources

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I like "controversial director of football" as a description, it being one of those sparse pieces of phrasing into which whole volumes of meaning have been telescoped.

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One reporter kept calling Bloom Mr Godfrey, a quaintly deferential piece of phrasing brilliantly calculated to wind him up.

In The Finishing School, Spark defies unworthy caution by making almost all her characters very young and the action contemporary (one of the students is writing a thesis 'on the massacre of the Nepalese royal family in recent years', an odd piece of phrasing).

This comes across as a classic, possibly unconscious, piece of Friedbergerian polyrhythm – and a very confident piece of phrasing, the very thing that drew me to her music in the first place – but it causes untold havoc in my waltz time version, giving me an eight or nine beat line to sing over three, something I couldn't have come up with in a million years, and probably wouldn't have wanted to.

La Monte Young, the composer, did a series of conceptual pieces consisting of phrases like "This piece is little whirlpools out in the middle of the ocean," also from 1960.

Mr. Gordon, who is 65, plays with many pieces of seemingly disparate phrases before they are transformed into an eloquent whole.

Extractive summarization is to select the most salient pieces of information (words, phrases, and/or sentences) from a source document without adding any external information.

There were printed out pieces of paper with phrases on them similar to the names stamped on bags of heroin, like "Pan-Asian Death Trip" and "Frenching Italians".

A problem here is that the piece tries for a beauty of phrasing that the current Pilobolus dancers don't really have.

He taped pieces of paper with key phrases and his contact information to his and his partner's backs.

Punctuating pieces of writing with French phrases is a charming affectation that was more prevalent in previous ages.

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