Sentence examples for whose phrase from inspiring English sources

We cannot afford another attorney general whose phrase of choice is "I do not recall".

That is redolent of Donne, whose phrase "the body makes the mind" generated The Seamless Web (1970).

Henry James, whose phrase about the President gives "Theodore Rex" its title, remarked a wee bit condescendingly on his "native intensity, veracity and bonhomie".

The writers Li includes are western and tend to think hard and unsentimentally about feelings: Elizabeth Bowen, Ivan Turgenev, Philip Larkin, William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield, whose phrase provides the book's title.

That night, Mr. Jackson also had finished pictures of a man named Courtney, whose quotation was "Love changes things," and of a woman named Christy Love, whose phrase was, "I'm ready to get off this block".

His doctrine was picked up by the biblical author of Ecclesiastes in the 3rd Century BC, whose phrase "There is nothing new under the sun" is repeated more than 20 times.

DiIulio is a Democrat whose phrasing soon finds its way into politicians' speeches and sound bites.

But she is a stolid, technically insecure singer, whose phrasing was oddly limp.

Take Conrad's "The Shadow-Line," some of whose phrases ("rash moments," "I had to steer") haunt this novel powerfully.

It's from the Declaration of Independence, whose phrases apply with eerie aptness to Britain's EU debate.

Take Conrad's The Shadow-Line, some of whose phrases ('rash moments', 'I had to steer') haunt this novel powerfully.