Sentence examples for scraps of language from inspiring English sources
They are constructed not from fleshly materials but from embroidered scraps of language, poetic notions, allegorical conceits.
Frannie, the heroine of Jane Campion's "In the Cut," is a writer and teacher who collects curious scraps of language: pungent specimens of slang, wayward metaphors, provocative jargon.
His songs felt authentic and intimate, yet they were filled with invented places and characters, private symbols, and impressionistic scraps of language.
That isn't to say the lyrics don't matter, but even though the vocals are almost always double-tracked they are set way below the guitars, the sound of which you will likely remember long after the scraps of language that emerge from the noise.
The photos, the fragments of letters, the scraps of translated language enable her to "show the truth by allowing it to be seen hiding".
Not a word of language, not a scrap of history, no more guidance than what I provided.
Scraps of Spanish and South Asian languages betrayed the makeup of the neighborhood, whose modest single-family homes and imposing apartment blocks are home to large Indian, Pakistani and South American populations.
Ms. Lutz then incorporated bits of those pages, plus scraps of pages from current Spanish-language telephone directories (a reflection of Port Chester's large Latino population), into spirograph-style shapes that she drew on the walls near the barnacle clusters.
They demanded scrapping of the three language formula and an end to teaching of Hindi, abolishing the use of Hindi commands in the National Cadet Corps (NCC), banning of Hindi films and songs and closure of the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachara Sabha – the Institution for propagation of Hindi in South India.
The newspaper had also tightened up its use of language as regards sourcing, saying it had scrapped the use of "it is understood that" and unqualified references to "sources" within its reporting.
Understandably, they lodged scraps of paper jotted with hieroglyphic kidesque language, used sucker sticks, and broken pieces of toys in these drawers.
