Sentence examples for silly phrasing from inspiring English sources

Of course, a sample of fatuous or silly phrasing doesn't mean there can be no great books of triumphant language, any more than the tendentious example of Stephanie Myer means that there can be no masterpieces emerging from genre fiction.

"Job-killing regulations" is a silly phrase that substitutes for real thought.

"We have only stiff or silly phrases — like significant other, partner or baby daddy," she said.

For one thing, it is a silly phrase, that Miliband seems to think is a serious, prime ministerial way of saying someone should be sacked.

The actors speak English with thick Russian accents (with varying success), and when Deema and Meela joke about how hard it is to learn silly phrases — while speaking perfect English, no less — any lingering suspension of disbelief dissipates.

"We've had silly phrases, like the 'post-industrial economy' which are not entirely helpful," explains Greenish, in a reference to the belief that Britain's future lay predominantly in service industries and the financial sector.

He would doubtless have made a brilliant oral historian of urban Scotland; but how much better that he stored it all up inside his head - all the silly phrases ("and me wi' my bad leg"), the love of pantomime, the roughness of the humour.

"This was a silly phrase to use in a diverse workforce," said Powar.

"This bothers me because it is just a silly phrase when you think about it," says Bruce Barry, professor of management at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Business.

How-to was hot from 2006-2008 and there was a lot of money going to HowCast, Mahalo, etc. Lifestyle business is a silly phrase as we all know.

And besides, didn't Jefferson steal that silly phrase from a Third Estate Englishman named John Locke?