Sentence examples for slippery language from inspiring English sources

Using wry humour, her work is much more than a slippery language game.

So, inevitably, the slippery language resulted in endless litigation about off-color jokes told in the company cafeteria or — to cite one recent episode — an exhibition of nudes on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, which Colgate University removed after hostile environment complaints by some of its employees.

This is slippery language indeed.

What does that slippery language mean?

The simulation of change looms over us, a massive slippery language, an avalanche of songs, gestures, billboards..

He proposed that the agreement, which covered a combination of religious and political topics, be called the Solemn League and Covenant, and he introduced slippery language into the agreement concerning "the example of the best Reformed churches".

OKWUI ENWEZOR, the artistic director of the 2015 Venice Biennale, which opens next month, speaks the slippery, abstract language so common to high-flying contemporary-art curators.

Penelope Fitzgerald admired her "wonderful ear for living voices", while Salman Rushdie found it sharp and funny, "part Caribbean magic, part London grime, written in a slippery, chameleon language".

Both Ms. Shick and Ms. Madden emphasized the intelligence that underpins Ms. Brown's slippery movement language, and the concentration necessary to do it right.

McGill was a superb draughtsman with an ear for the slippery power of language.

From this, one guesses, she learned how art could be produced outside both the market and academia, and she got a sense of the loaded, slippery power of language, which plays a crucial role in her work.