Sentence examples for slippery phrase from inspiring English sources

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Does it matter that X Factor producers used Auto-Tune – or, in their slippery phrase, "post-production effects" – to enhance the performances of contestants for broadcast?

Indeed, David Ross, an early art-world advocate of media work, wrote in "Seeing Time", the catalogue for a recent touring exhibition of the Kramlich collection, that film-based and video art marks "the aesthetic transformation of our era", providing artists with a new means of representing temporal experience.This is exciting, if tricky, as that slippery phrase "temporal experience" suggests.

This slippery phrase has had a lot of employment in philosophy, but what it means is never explained by its employers" (van Inwagen 1994, 210).

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The slippery phrasing leaves open the question of whether Charles believes this to be an accurate description of countries like Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and France, as distinct from a description of the E.U. bureaucracy, which is unloved by all.

One day this spring, driving through a snowstorm to a Democratic fund-raiser in Flagstaff, Carmona showed how slippery the phrase can be.

His touch was gentle, his vocal phrasing slippery, like that of the Brazilian and French chanteuses he admired.

Her slippery pop-jazz phrasing edged with the hint of a wail suits "The Gangster Rap," a song written with her husband, which, she explains, was inspired by her 20th high-school reunion at which she realized that her teenage heart throb had joined the Mafia.

However, Rothchild is on a very slippery slope with the phrase "castrati in the choral groups at Wagnerfests".

But you're going to put us here for a whole month?" The main difficulty for pitchers in the cold is maintaining a feel for the ball, so it does not begin to feel slippery, in Swisher's phrase, "like a cue ball".

Unfortunately, their denials, while sometimes pedantically true per their exact phrasing, are slippery evasions that turn on wording.

The definition of "more than a high school diploma" is a weasel phrase, an incredibly slippery statistic.

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