Sentence examples for telling phrase from inspiring English sources
But "increasingly secular" may be the most telling phrase.
The South African then used a telling phrase.
In short, in Thomson's telling phrase, the 'art and awfulness'.
"There is that telling phrase: 'Summer's here and the time is right,' " he writes.
Selvon, Yusuf and Ardan are, in his telling phrase, "close without touch".
Going through the ritual motions (what a telling phrase) is less and less an option.
To use one of Coe's telling phrases, "It is people that make the theatre".
Passionate and prejudiced, Cobbett's prose, full of telling phrases and inspired ridicule, was completely personal.
"Stifled by acceptance" is one of the very many telling phrases Reynolds uses.
There are the flowing passages and telling phrases that one would expect from such an accomplished writer.
(The Oudtshoorn of his youth was, Nixon remarks, in one of the nicely telling phrases that punctuate his book, "a one-mistake town," a "purgatorial" community where "your destiny could be sealed by gossip about a glance").
