Sentence examples for thorny syntax from inspiring English sources

Phrases like that illustrate both the author's power as a writer and her own blind spot, some unchecked impulse to indulge in thorny syntax and extraneous flourishes.

The piece is scored for jazz ensemble and embodies some jazzlike moves, but it is otherwise couched in Mr. Babbitt's thorny syntax.

And these thorny issues.

Things were getting thorny.

The inverted syntax?

"It is a syntax".

"Your syntax is shit.

Mangle his syntax?

Her syntax stays sure.

The pleasures of syntax.

But the juxtaposition is thorny.