Sentence examples for roundabout language from inspiring English sources
ABC News has mostly opted for roundabout language in characterizing King's remarks, leading with phrases such as "racially-charged comments" in its chyrons. .
This was particularly the case when staff were attempting to break potentially painful news gently by using euphemism or roundabout language.
THE LANGUAGE OF TREES Roundabout Underground, an initiative to cultivate new talent, presented Stephen Karam's "Speech & Debate" last year.
As a shortstop for the New York Yankees and later, as a Yankees broadcaster, Mr. Rizzuto pursued a giddy, if roundabout, courtship of the English language.
Why do you put it so oddly?"——Is he going to understand the further analysed sentence better?—This sentence, one might say, achieves the same as the ordinary one, but in a more roundabout way.— Imagine a language-game in which someone is ordered to bring certain objects which are composed of several parts, to move them about, or something else of that kind.
But it turns out they are both extremely triggered by people speaking other languages around them, which is a roundabout way of saying they both recently went on viral racist rants.
The book is by Steven Levenson, author of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durgin and The Language of Trees (both produced locally at the Roundabout).
Culteranismo, the ornate, roundabout, high-flown style of which Luis de Góngora y Argote was archpriest, attempted to ennoble the language by re-Latinizing it.
Exhibitions "ROUNDABOUT".
Venue: Summerhall @ Roundabout, Edinburgh.
