Sentence examples for vivid phrasing from inspiring English sources

As he developed a rich tone, he used rests and dynamic contrasts to create vivid phrasing in blues ("Blue Hymn") and standard songs ("Exactly Like You," "Angel Eyes").

In a speech full of vivid phrasing and hearty liberalism, he eased up when the topic was immigration, emphasizing his Administration's militarization of our southern border and the toughness of the path to citizenship that he envisions for the undocumented — taxes, fines, learning English, "and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally".

The short accounts of some American novelists read today by only a minority -- John Dos Passos, John O'Hara, Sinclair Lewis -- are not such as will lead to a revival of their work, but the Lewis essay contains observations made telling through Mallon's vivid phrasing.

Columnists pounced on the vivid phrase.

I noted the repetition of a vivid phrase, which was used in two stories.

Alastair Campbell came up with the most vivid phrase: the younger Miliband would make the party "feel good about losing".

"We cannot cut the head to suit the cap," he said in one of the vivid phrases he enjoys.

The vivid phrase implied that a gang of homegrown terrorists had come from nowhere, without an intelligence trail.

You could argue that this character is given the most vivid phrases and the most finely turned declarations in the play.

Harsh, vivid phrases – the 'hideously charred corpses of murdered infants'; bodies 'writhing in agony' – unspool until they become almost a form of punctuation.

The city excelled in the production of iron, steel, men's clothing, and farm machinery, and its meatpacking industry perfected "the mechanized animal kill," in Green's vivid phrase.