Sentence examples for such proverbial from inspiring English sources

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Without the pastoral mystique that has been appropriated by wine producers or the suave, sophisticated imagery of the wine drinker, beer lovers have largely retreated to the antistyle precincts associated with such proverbial social outcasts as computer nerds and science fiction fanatics.

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Such almost proverbial sayings, however, do not appear to be rules.

It could throw such a proverbial wrench in the plasmodium lifecycle, preventing millions of deaths, and transforming the lives of those with the most to lose.

But the sports dome "is scratching such an enormous proverbial itch, there is no way we're harming anyone," he said, adding, "There is more than enough need to go around".

First up is the phenomenon of chaos, which ensures that even our best-founded predictions can always go wrong: an undetectable alteration in initial conditions, such as the proverbial flap of a butterfly's wing, may be about to throw a spanner in the works.

An Aussie comedian and actress with the proverbial "such a beautiful face," she is starring in a sitcom she writes and produces.

While we cannot condone such behavior, the proverbial cock is out of the bag and we've already documented dozens of DILDO sticker sightings from the poshest neighborhood in Manhattan to the most dilapidated structures of Coney Island.

When it came to Shakespeare's plays, Johnson emphasised the role of the reader in understanding language: "If Shakespeare has difficulties above other writers, it is to be imputed to the nature of his work, which required the use of common colloquial language, and consequently admitted many phrases allusive, elliptical, and proverbial, such as we speak and hear every hour without observing them".

Therefore, interviewers aimed to elicit accounts of critical moments, such as the proverbial ' straw that broke the camel's back', to explore reasons why health workers stay or leave their work places.

To environmental experts, such evidence is the proverbial writing on the wall: we must transition to a low-carbon economy, stat, in order to avoid irrevocable damage.

Once, such verbal corpses were the proverbial fish-and-chip paper, accessible only by newspaper-cuttings archives or people who spent several hours a day surfing microfiche in their local libraries.

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