Sentence examples for troublesome word from inspiring English sources
A bit of diplomatic finesse had excised the troublesome word and helped clinch a historic agreement.
A law professor explores "the strange career of a troublesome word".
One is especially hungry for Twain's kind of transformative complexity after reading Randall Kennedy's thorny book, "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon; $22).
Nothing is off limits to Kennedy, an African-American professor of law at Harvard whose last book was the provocative "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word".
Randall Kennedy's "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" has everything to make it popular: it is short, easy to read and provocative.
His first book was a guide to English usage, The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words (1983).
Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (Broadway, slim hardcover, $20) is a usage book with a nice sense of differentiation.
For variety, Bill Bryson, in Troublesome Words, takes a stand against treating the Greek origin singular kudos as an English plural.
And by "continuous" I don't mean "continual," a distinction that Bryson elucidates in "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words," one of several also improbably entertaining books on language he has written, despite, if his memoir is to be believed, being a marginal student in high school and a onetime college dropout before lighting out for England in the 70's.
Elaboration is aimed at expanding content understandability through providing meanings of troublesome words.
