"I hear" is a splendid phrase, impervious to fact-checking, and can be used to describe deep, almost mystical knowledge of the future moves of ISIS and of China, as well as those of the human-resources department at CNN: Why does @CNN bore their audience with people like @secupp, a totally biased loser who doesn't have a clue.
"There's a splendid phrase that Stanley Baldwin used in 1937 when he gave up the premiership: 'I promise not to spit on the deck or speak to the man at the wheel,' " said David Butler, a fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the author of a number of books about British politics.
The last such moment came when the judge ended any smidgen of doubt about jail, and used that splendid judicial phrase "condign punishment".
They traipsed round the tourist traps (starting with the birthplace of the Prophet), building up to the hajj itself, when the compass of the city expanded, in a splendid contemporary phrase, like "a uterus for the foetus".
What a splendid turn of phrase she has.
Yes, he probably can score off both Clegg and Brown by painting them as spineless Europhiles: if not "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" then, in Boris Johnson's splendid adaptation of that phrase, "euro-loving road-hump fetishists".
She is also adept at the telling phrase and makes splendid use of the period's vivid letters, diaries and memoirs, from John Hervey and Horace Walpole and the perceptive Fanny Burney, to the Dorset farmer's niece Elizabeth Ham, a caustic observer of "farmer George".
I realized that I had found not only the right line for the scene, but also an evocative title in the phrase 'a thousand splendid suns,' which appears in the next-to-last stanza".
She is in both moods a splendid musician; the attention to rhythm, phrase length and pitch legitimized the emotion.
At the outset of his writing career, he took for his own "a phrase of D.H. Lawrence's in his splendid commentary on the complacent moral utterances of Benjamin Franklin: 'Find your deepest impulse, and follow that'" (1972: 93).
Still, he said, Ms. Radvanovsky was "splendid," and Mr. Hvorostovsky sang "with his trademark dark sound and supple phrasing, which poignantly brought to life this suffering husband's love".
