Sentence examples for say of something from inspiring English sources

To say of something that it is "good" or "interesting" now looks like lack of enthusiasm.

"This is not a tower," they say of something that definitely is a tower.

Hope vanishes the moment it becomes ubiquitous: "It grows on trees" is what we say of something so common as to be worthless.

Suppose that we can truly say of something x that This is M (with this referring to x).

What sense would it make to say of something — a substance — that it is Sam Newlandsish in the same sense in which I say of it that it is round?

Consider a mass noun M. Suppose that we can truly say of something x that This is M (with this referring to x) and of something distinct, y, that This is M (with this now referring to y).

"That is an enormous cliff-edge," he said of something, possibly an enormous cliff.

It is much harder to estimate the value, he said, of something no one knew was still around.

"It was a singular vision," Mr. Daniels said of "Something Wild," adding that he saw a similarity in the deliberate but unencumbered style of the director Noah Baumbach, who directed him in "The Squid and the Whale" (2005).

Consider propositions of the type that says of something that it is a dog.

Something is a false statement if with reference to its subject it says of something other than what is (e.g. flying) that it is.