That sort of phrase is music to Tory ears.
Clearly, these are the sort of phrases that Americans and their government love to hear.
"Bingo wings", "love handles", "thunder thighs": they are the sort of phrases which, for reasons of self-respect, are no longer appropriate in modern Britain.
He did not suffer from the bane of drama critics: adjectival effusion – the sort of phrase that gets critics' names up outside theatres.
Employers can lump that sort of phrase into a pie-chart, send it by the accountants and adjust company policy, for the good of the bottom-line, not the mere sanity of their employees.
Fiercely fabulous is the sort of phrase that springs to mind when trying to figure out the perfect all-encompassing label to slap across this new French poppet named Sliimy.
"For Britain to send a team of men around the world saying you should empower women and girls will not do!" This is the sort of phrase – a bit hectoring, a bit Miss Jean Brodie – that drives her opponents wild.
Social responsibility may be the sort of phrase one associates less with insider hot spots like the Soho House than with the student quad, but lately it is spoken of in some unexpected quarters.
Huffington awards (to filch another polling term, the sort of phrase that would never slip off a normal person's lips) high negatives to the sins of Big Tobacco, the influence of Big Money, and the stupidities of Big Hypocrisy -- especially the pols (you know who you are) who take special-interest money and rail against the campaign finance system.
But the idea of spaces at least cozier than most museum galleries was crucial to the notion of a museum that would be a "joy-giving, life-enhancing influence, assisting people to see beautifully as true artists see": the sort of phrase that sounds fatuous coming from other culturati but in Phillips's case has the ring of truth.
