Sentence examples for says of something from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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

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

"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).

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

Similar to most other Neoplatonists, Israeli accepted the Aristotelian definition of a substance as a something of which something is said or predicated and not something which is said of something else.

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).