Sentence examples for telling term from inspiring English sources

This approach explicates confirmation precisely as the overall credibility of a hypothesis (firmness is Carnap's 1950/1962 telling term, xvi).

Dis-house is very much in the vein of "dry-lander" dance; a throwaway but telling term used by early Croydon dubsteppers to describe dancefloor-averse home listeners.

(An even more telling term she used was "the self-pitiers").

In a different vein, we dislike "human-rights abuses", when a more vivid and telling term like "torture" or "murder" is usually available.

Once a narcissist, always a narcissist — but then, I didn't have to "wrangle" him, to use the telling term of his long-suffering collaborator Jorge Calderon.

All of that has left us in a stage where we can talk about hyperpartisanship, but the more telling term is tribalism.

An inscription dated to 25AD, seven years before the temple's consecration, hailed it in telling terms as the house not just of Bel himself but of all the gods.

The really big and telling long term story, however, came as the shutdown was winding down.

It is particularly telling that term high achievers reported being less frustrated with group work as a result of their course experience.

But his answer is telling in terms of how the experimentations with the request marketplace informed the new direction.

Historically, as far as anyone can tell, the term "Newfie" originated during World War II during the construction of the American naval base at Argentia.