Sentence examples for stumble over phrases from inspiring English sources

You will stumble over phrases like "constitutive conditions," "heteronormative coordinates" and "subjective agency".

On too many mornings, her show sounded all at sea – most notoriously in 2007 when she seemed to slur her words and stumble over phrases, referring to Princess Diana in a "pinka polka blot" dress, and suggesting that the victim of the Phil Spector murder trial had died from a gunshot wound to the "month".

Don't stumble over giving constructive feedback or criticism.

It often startled and amused them to hear me stumble over simple phrases and speak with an accent.

While he doesn't quite stick to that — anyone unfamiliar with the intricate work of the literary scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick will stumble over the phrase "the epistemology of the closet" — much of the book is straightforward in style.

While he doesn't quite stick to that anyone unfamiliar with the intricate work of the literary scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick will stumble over the phrase "the epistemology of the closet"—much of the book is straightforward in style.

(She has already stumbled over the phrase "Forever stamps").

Mark is stumbling over a phrase of fulsome tribute to his benefactor — "ornithologist, philatelist, philanthropist" — and, fuelled by cocaine, du Pont, held in a long take, gets some kicks from his directorial coaching of the young man in the diction of the line and its dramatic contours.

Mark is stumbling over a phrase of fulsome tribute to his benefactor—"ornithologist, philatelist, philanthropist"—and, fuelled by cocaine, du Pont, held in a long take, gets some kicks from his directorial coaching of the young man in the diction of the line and its dramatic contours.

In his latest book, "The Sense of Style," Harvard cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker explores the most common words and phrases that people stumble over.

The results include some decidedly Anglo-Saxon expletives, assorted anachronistic turns of phrase and gleeful moments in which the actors stumble over the complicated, manifold names with which the characters address one another.