Sentence examples for twists of phrase from inspiring English sources

The vitriolic posts reminded me just how flat the print medium is, how readers so angered by my piece weren't there to see me wink at the screen, chuckle at my pseudo-serious twists of phrase.

The essay isn't an opportunity to show off flashy writing tricks and creative twists of phrase.

In Durban, Brazilian diplomats used a smart twist of phrase to break a deadlock over the legal form of the 2015 climate agreement.

Yet, it turned out, even his victims seemed to love him: for his turn of phrase and twist of mind.

She had a special knack in her lyrics, a trick, a twist that made her songs often startlingly truthful; each composition would contain at least a line, an image, a turn of phrase that seems to shuck the song open.

It's partly his turn of phrase.

"It was just a turn of phrase.

Most obviously they each love to combine ballet's academic language with features of other dance and movement styles; and even when using ballet vocabulary exclusively, they find unconventional coordinations of body parts and unexpected twists of ballet phrasing.

Steinhauer is more interested in twists of plot than turns of phrase, but the very bluntness of his novel's writing adds to its impact.

"I appropriated a lot of their vocal forms, and also their turns of phrase – either heard or misheard or twisted from blues songs".

It was a happy choice of phrase.