Sentence examples for say of a from inspiring English sources

We can say of a lazy colleague He isn't gonna do shit.

Arabs say of a good horse that it can "outpace a giraffe".

There was a public denunciation, they say, of a member believed to be sinful.

"It leapt off the page" is what we say of a happy reading experience.

"He's horrible," I heard Flanagan say of a pompous movie director.

I might say, of a particular book, "Maybe I'm being too easily seduced by the language".

"Kill it," she would say of a plot element that she found wanting.

Who can say of a particular sea that it is old?

That can be bracing in the hands, say, of a surrealist like David Lynch.

Smart enough, was all I could say of a species that had flourished through many millenniums.

IT'S considered uncharitable, if not small, to say of a writer's new work, "He's getting better".