Sentence examples for upon a phrase from inspiring English sources
Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, the song's narrative featured themes of betrayal and emotional suffering, built upon a phrase associated with civil war slaves' form of telegraph: the human grapevine.
The tempi on this occasion were almost uniformly too slow, and so all the finesse of expression that was here and there lavished upon a phrase counted for nothing.
The couple had apparently agreed upon a phrase that he would pass along to confirm it was really him speaking to her: "Rosabelle, believe".
She agrees to have sex with him under cover of darkness and when, the next morning, he lets daylight in upon magic – to coin a phrase – a nightmare ensues.
The play upon a known phrase – camera obscura – perfectly suits the author's mournful reflections on the power of photographs following the death of his mother.
Only recently, the Romney campaign has stumbled upon a snappy phrase more to their liking: "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose," a popular catchphrase from the NBC American sports drama television series "Friday Night Lights,"; though the show's writer and director Peter Berg took issue with Team Romney for co-opting that phrase into their campaign without permission.
We were "the best and the brightest," a phrase sprinkled upon us like pixie dust to serve as armor against life's realities.
Chase and Aykroyd explain that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union turned dozens of American citizens into sleeper agents who would fall into a trance and do the bidding of the KGB upon hearing the phrase, "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet" – a phrase no one would normally use.
