Sentence examples for scattered phrases from inspiring English sources

"On the Transmigration of Souls" sets to music the plainspoken, heartfelt language surrounding the events of September 11th: the final words of victims, exclamations of grief, missing-persons signs, scattered phrases like "Windows on the World".

The great convulsions of Mao's China, which had claimed millions of lives, are only lamely evoked in scattered phrases about revolutionaries who swim as "fish swim through the sea," endure a "long march," are made to "leap forward" and implored to "seize the day".

They knew nothing of the lost world except for scattered phrases they heard from their fathers and uncles, who came out of Afghanistan rarely, and then on stretchers... choking out the words 'Son, always kill infidels; never let strangers see our women.' " The word medieval was often used -- inappropriately -- to characterize the Taliban.

The scattered phrases I knew seemed only to underscore my ignorance: Wayn alinfijar?

John Hersey, who acted as Lewis's secretary for a summer, was horrified, as he "endlessly" retyped drafts, "to see thousands upon thousands of words — not scattered words and phrases but long passages, whole scenes — ruthlessly slashed out".

Eager nodding and scattered applause greet phrases like "you can rise to the occasion"; "no one knows what they can do until they go that one step further"; and "we possess the capacity to cope; it's in all of us".

"Even if you choose to go on your separate way/ I'm hoping you'll be back/ here the same but different" is one way of putting it (in "Here the Same but Different"); other phrases scattered through the record, like "you're not what you say you are" and "the truth doesn't matter" and "I don't mind that I'm not afraid," are further iterations of essentially the same principle.

Whereas in Experiment 1, the metaphoric frame was established using vivid verbs with rich relational meaning in phrases scattered throughout the report (e.g., crime was said to be either preying & lurking, or infecting & plaguing).

Rather than confront an opponent, Obama treated his listeners as barely educable children, while propping himself on formulas any clever child would recognize as mere caption-phrases, scattered and unconnected.

Mr. Lopez scattered Spanish words and phrases through his monologues.

If they are remembered at all, they will be shown as the old "enemy within", to use Thatcher's own phrase, reduced to few in number and scattered to the four winds.