NEW CANAAN "Turns of Phrase," John Clement and Matthew Heller.
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In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace can hinge on turns of phrase.
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The earnestness is undercut by the turns of phrase in the song.
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Jim Frohna: Jill is always coming up with amazing turns-of-phrase.
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NEW CANAAN "Turns of Phrase," work by John Clement and Matthew Heller.
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Schlenker's prose sometimes suffers from unnecessary clichés and awkward turns-of-phrase.
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The thoughts and careful turns of phrase he spoke didn't just write themselves.
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Sometimes the stuffy syntax of headlines makes for iconic lil' turns of phrase.
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Among them Pilar stands out for her delicate and memorable turns of phrase.
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Psychologists have long known that simple turns of phrase can change our thinking.
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These may seem like small issues, even down to single turns of phrase.
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His relaxed demeanor and colorful turns of phrase won praise on social media.
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I heard his hoarse voice, his repetitive turns of phrase, even in dreams.
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I like the way that he writes teenagers ... I like his turns of phrase.
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He no longer spouts eloquent turns of phrase, or drops witticisms during legal meetings.
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The speech is likely to be remembered for Trump's most dystopian turns of phrase.
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And he's an elegant writer, with clear and memorable turns of phrase to illustrate complex points.
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Primitive rock'n'roll wasn't yet geared toward storytelling, and the turns of phrase championed by Cole Porter.
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There are plenty of original, if not terribly inspired, turns of phrase throughout these later albums.
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Still, I found myself highlighting insights, jokes and startling turns of phrase from nearly every writer.
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Such outmoded turns of phrase have no place in the 2020 election cycle, Booker argued Friday.
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Many turns of phrase and poetic expressions in other languages pack a punch, even in translation.
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He's selling a sensor-laden automated bassinet, and favors Valley-esque turns of phrase when describing it.
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If the answers come with more brooding and strutting and clever turns of phrase, I'm so there.
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However GoT hasn't been all hot sex and thoughtful turns of phrase over the last eight years.
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Kagan's voice has been that of the clever colleague, devising brilliant hypotheticals and clever turns of phrase.
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In conversation, he sometimes leans on tropes and turns of phrase that feel like personal brand sloganeering.
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"I'm really drawn to beautiful words and perfect turns of phrase," she explained during a Vevo interview.
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It was, as one of the Valley's more cynical turns of phrase has it, a "buzzword-compliant" talk.
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On Listening Matter, Meluch's words are sharp as ever, evoking worlds of meaning in quick turns of phrase.
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He obviously appreciates smart turns of phrase — so where are his reads on David Berman and Stephin Merritt?
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If Trump is good at one thing, it's rallying his supporters with pithy, all-encapsulating turns of phrase.
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Spring is chock-full of familiar turns of phrase: It's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
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Cheryl in particular blossoms as a villain to fear, in large part thanks to her caustic turns of phrase.
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Though often abstract with her turns of phrase, Ms. Case can also be direct when she needs to be.
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Yet the characters' forlorn charm and their poetic turns of phrase are undercut by bursts of anger and callousness.
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"Chespirito" featured sketches with recurring characters who popularized Gómez Bolaños's satirical turns of phrase among millions of Spanish speakers.
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Artists who died this year left behind gripping scenes, profound turns of phrase, unforgettable melodies and plenty of laughter.
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Did Steph Curry's interviews over the 2019 NBA All-Star weekend seem full of weird turns of phrase to you?
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On the other hand, turns of phrase like, "Bottled at the château" or, "Bottled on the property" can inspire confidence.
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" Instead of relying on tired turns of phrase, says Welch, simply "say what you did and how it turned out.
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But behind all those gut-busting turns of phrase is serious insight into class-consciousness and the overall human condition.
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Sol Trader attempts the opposite: its dialogue lacks neat turns of phrase or narrative resonance but each encounter plays uniquely.
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They are described in quick broad strokes that don't get much deeper than quirky anecdotes and folksy turns of phrase.
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The author excels at capturing authentic turns of phrase, but the book really shines in its exploration of other characters.
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Interspersed with the narrator's journey is a constellation of discrete stories that share rhyming motifs and certain turns of phrase.
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His stories are captivating, but his unique turns of phrase and impassioned reenactments overshadow and surpass any reality they express.
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I've noticed that interesting turns of phrase and associative leaps come to me much more easily in the evening hours.
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He's simply not a dynamo of charisma and the rejoinder to Ryan doesn't feature any particularly eloquent turns of phrase.
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A former poetry-slam champ, she delivers turns of phrase—like "Africa's never dead / Africa's always dying"—that have resonance and memorability.
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But then she released MAGDALENE—a strange, innovative, Trojan horse of an album full of sonic twists and surprising turns of phrase.
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They should instead have been trying to discredit his policies: Bad policies and values were the problem, not bad turns of phrase.
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It's not really in character for Hillary Clinton to speak in terms of vivid imagery, creative metaphors, or striking turns of phrase.
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"The sheer number of euphemisms shows that using indirect turns of phrase to avoid talking about periods is a global issue," Tin said.
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She's also a fount of hilarity and superlative turns of phrase, which Lockwood appreciates as the antecedent to her own way with words.
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Fullbrook has this way of making surreal flourishes out of mundane details and everyday emotions—mining darkness and drama from casual turns of phrase.
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We will study his opinions, yes, but we will also study his speeches, his sound bites, his turns of phrase and his travel schedule.
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And that's why many throughout the region have been so startled by the turns of phrase being used by aides to the president-elect.
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"He's had very consistent rhetorical turns of phrase regarding women and people of color and immigrants," she told me during an interview last Friday.
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And Mike Pence seemed destined to become a meme for a few turns of phrase that...didn't quite turn out the way he probably intended.
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Mr. Guo, using turns of phrase that wouldn't be out of place in "The Godfather" or "The Sopranos," said He Jintao was working against him.
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Its jokes are based on riffs on science and history, or playing on turns of phrase, or just finding anything that cows do inherently funny.
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In person, she reminded Dash of a long-lost aunt; she was imposing and tall, using turns of phrase she hadn't heard since was a child.
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Baldwin's Trump admitted that such turns of phrase — and proxy wars against the National Football League — are part of a larger plan to distract the public.
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There are some great turns of phrase that I think an English-speaking audience won't find particularly amusing, but we get big laughs from Spanish speakers.
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Like his father—the great experimenter Robert Ashley—Sam Ashley has a knack for sneaking casually profound turns of phrase into seemingly unending streams of consciousness.
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Even though this was essentially a clerical task, I was struck repeatedly by the force of Sam's voice, his graceful turns of phrase and amusing observations.
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To appreciate it is to read it more for those descriptions, for Oyeyemi's shivery imagery and turns of phrase, than to find out what happens next.
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Spoken word: One of our Opinion columnists recorded voice memos to remember column ideas and turns of phrase — even full paragraphs and outlines of his articles.
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But watching the show, all you're really conscious of is the repetitive thrust and parry of formal arguments, dressed up with winningly Stoppardesque turns of phrase.
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Mrs Clinton was far less "braggadocious", to use one of Mr Trump's turns of phrase, but her allies were just as quick to proclaim that she won.
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And while Obama's inspiring turns of phrase create legendary memes, the president could stand to learn a lesson or two from the internet's snarkiest warriors: the trolls.
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She often uses poetic turns of phrase to describe everything from how her daily morning run went to how she gets ready for a performance of Beethoven.
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By turns of phrase, Seattle's brief summer becomes a character here too, as Lioness's presence causes any number of peculiar disruptions to the natural and social order.
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The goal was to subvert lowbrow doublespeak with clever turns of phrase that made fun of the product being sold or revealed the truth behind the slogan.
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Mr. Petrov wrote that the lyrics "abound" with "obscene language, extremist turns of phrase and elicit enmity among citizens," which lead to brawls and other illegal activity.
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White House speechwriters, who usually do not shrink from accepting praise for artful turns of phrase, say the credit for this one belongs solely to their boss.
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His accent may not be spot on, but the logical way he explains the various turns of phrase will have you saying "That's fine!" in no time.
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The manager, known for his folksy, colorful turns of phrase and for his dark cashmere sweaters no matter the occasion, was the darling of the automotive analyst community.
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For the most part, Mr Norman is a reporter and not an artist, eschewing literary turns of phrase and symbolism in favor of concise diction and exhaustive research.
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Edda is originally from Puebla, Mexico, and said he works with friends from Sinaloa to make sure he delivers turns of phrase and accents used by locals appropriately.
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Mr. Trump turned to familiar turns of phrase by telling his supporters that he was fighting on their behalf, giving them a sense of ownership over his election.
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Particular turns of phrase also were no-nos: "iron-fisted," for example, when used to describe the president, since any criticism of him could land you in jail.
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EP track "Skip," where Lisa's deepened soprano whispers a lyric too fuzzy for a band whose turns of phrase pack colloquial bite even when literal meanings are gummy.
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There were lots of rhetorical questions and lovely turns of phrase, but Saul always seemed to be hearing a hard and fast "no" that Jivadi wasn't actually conveying.
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Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Nehlen has modeled himself as a politically uninitiated businessman, packaging populist attacks on Mr. Ryan in eye-catching turns of phrase and social media postings.
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Kenya is thoroughly bilingual, with Swahili and English spoken everywhere from the veldt to the center of the capital, and popular turns of phrase may come from either language.
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As a result, she is a technician, as interested in structure as she is in attitude, as focused on unexpected turns of phrase as on how to deliver them.
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The lyrics consist of ever shorter aphorisms, obscure turns of phrase, simple contradictions; half the songs repeat the same minimally varied lines, as if to slam the point home.
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Every page was new to me, equally precious, and I hung on to the microstories tucked into the recipe introductions, any turns of phrase or quotations I could memorize.
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His press conferences and interviews redefined the way people saw boxers – and to a larger extent, professional athletes in general – and made sportswriters everywhere reconsider their own turns of phrase.
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CAPE TOWN — To cut themselves free of the gender norms fed to them since birth, young South Africans aren't using sharp edges but rather soft fabrics and turns of phrase.
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Sidibé obviously knew his story best and also, we used his turns of phrase on the voiceover so he could shape it in the way that he felt was right.
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Even as "Patriot" zooms through terrifically tense action sequences, the show is primarily character driven, and it revels in everyone's weird hats, weird looks, weird turns of phrase, weird hobbies.
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It sounds like Mahajan, whose facility for gorgeous turns of phrase produces many passages of vivid, startling power, and many others that are capsized by too hefty a verbal cargo.
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Some are simple turns of phrase, like "blood, ket and tears," while others take the form of videos of bemused k-holing crusaders caught on snapchat the wrong side of 11AM.
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I work hard to write literate English, but I began to wonder if the turns of phrase I labor over are turgid or if they obscure the action in my novels.
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Rick Ross, opulent in his beat choices and turns of phrase, refers to his weed as "purple flowers," but he's already feeling the burning heat in his chest when he smokes.
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Democrats also note that Trump himself has not been especially transparent about his health, releasing only a brief letter from a physician that was widely derided for its extravagant turns of phrase.
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He wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus ("Girl you work it like Mike Tyson") and contained even within his most serious songs are moments of comedy and sly turns of phrase.
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And in "Booked," the story of a word-bedeviled soccer star whose father is a linguistics professor, the clever turns of phrase will hook anyone accustomed to watching rapid-fire TV dialogue.
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The sharp-tongued parliamentarian apologised for the offence he had caused, with the surreal excuse that in the heat of an argument some "not too successful turns of phrase" could sometimes be uttered.
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If they are interrupting and talking over each other, he worries; if they are tuned into each other's mannerisms and turns of phrase, he gives them a better chance of surviving a crisis.
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" It's a bouncy, very Shins number that features typically obtuse turns of phrase from singer James Mercer such as "rolling down the ancient high street" and "you're flipping through the check-stand rags.
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But in his prime (the late 1950s and early '60s), his act was packed with wandering stories punctuated by amusing turns of phrase and vivid character studies as opposed to crackling punch lines.
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Unveiled in an over-the-top press event in Manhattan today, which included such turns of phrase as "aluminum has become the gold standard," the device is a convertible laptop with a leather case.
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Now's your chance, then, to acquaint yourself with lead singer and guitarist Erica Dunn's rasping, gripping turns of phrase, as well as god-tier drummer Raquel Solier and high torque bass player Sara Retallick.
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They should not be ignored, and we noted with disappointment many turns of phrase including the use of 'historic peace agreement' rather than referencing the 'Good Friday Agreement', as it is so universally known.
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A Friday visit to the R.F. Kampfer Revolutionary Literature Archive — housed in the home of Bradley Duncan — was an amazing opportunity to learn about the codes embedded in certain turns of phrase in leftist materials.
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After the Columbine shooting, I started writing about how "gunspeak" — the way everyday turns of phrase, from "bite the bullet" and "sweating bullets," to "trigger warnings" and "pulling the trigger" — reflected a society obsessed with guns.
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It's one thing to appreciate the cultural aspects of these musical forms, yet another to home in on the lyrics, the power of the repetition employed therein, the subtle turns of phrase and uses of wit.
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"Johnson's use of language is often a mixture of unexpected metaphors or turns of phrase, hyperbole, and nostalgia, very often with a particularly British twist," said Philip Seargeant, senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the Open University.
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"Johnson's use of language is often a mixture of unexpected metaphors or turns of phrase, hyperbole, and nostalgia, very often with a particularly British twist," said Philip Seargeant, senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the Open University.
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Here are some of Powell's more colorful turns of phrase from the meetings in which policymakers weighed whether to "taper" the massive bond-purchase program that was begun in response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession.
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Some do it because they are intoxicated by the possibilities offered in a new language—the words and turns of phrase for which their own language doesn't have any equivalents, the strange new rhythms and patterns of sound.
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She is unafraid of joyful hyperbole and delicious turns of phrase: "This is so gorgeous, I'm having a heart attack right now," she says as she tucks into a dish of tikin xic with chef Regina in the Yucatán.
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Little of this was borne out in the skin-deep score, influenced by jazz and full of too many obvious turns of phrase, such as the word "air" being given a lofty melody, like a feather in a breeze.
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What actually happened in a Yorkshire hotel room is up for debate, but there is no mistaking the piquant turns of phrase of a playwright who can make an alliterative description like "slum slug" sound both funny and threatening.
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He'd learned Spanish from the Dominicans he'd worked for as a stock boy on the northern Haitian border, and picked up some turns of phrase and idioms from the shelter Cubans, who helped him get the job on the construction site.
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She gets such perfect turns of phrase ("I have nothing to wear for who I need to be," she moans while staring into her closet) that, unlike so many of her fictional counterparts, she's utterly believable as an in-demand wunderkind.
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But if they did, AT&T's latest response to the Federal Communications Commission's inquiry into the telecom giant's controversial "zero-rating" practices would likely include many "colorful" turns-of-phrase that are not printable by a family-friendly news organization like Motherboard.
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From lead single "All My Happiness is Gone" and "Margaritas in the Mall" to "She's Making Friends, I'm Turning Stranger," there was a curious pleasure in trying to find, once more, the strange victory in even his most bummed-out turns of phrase.
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Many writers also feel the influence and overflow of Pakistan's lingua-franca Urdu, a flowery and poetic language, has swelled the popularity of such colorful turns of phrase in English, which is Pakistan's second official language widely spoken by the political and business elites.
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The beauty and humor in Turner's ordinary British turns of phrase, and scenarios, and modes of expression, share similarities with another Sheffield legend: Jarvis Cocker (who, at this point, feels like the closest point of comparison for both Turner's career, and his songwriting style).
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Many writers also feel the influence and overflow of Pakistan's lingua-franca Urdu, a flowery and poetic language, has swelled the popularity of such colourful turns of phrase in English, which is Pakistan's second official language widely spoken by the political and business elites.
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He's a gifted wordsmith ("I do like to slip in precise turns of phrase," he said, slipping in a precise turn of phrase), excels at playing characters in his routines and has become physically adept enough to make full use of Radio City's massive stage.
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But at the same time, a lot of his rhetorical turns of phrase and views that he expresses about women or immigrants or people of color are the exact same, in that he sees people who do not look or think like him as less than human.
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Stock phrases (characters with "swanlike" throats and "heart-shaped" faces) accrete, and strained turns of phrase ("her face like the light at an intersection: surprise, suspicion, shut") further enfeeble the storytelling, as does demoralizing hyperbole (did everyone who ever met Michael really like him, his captors included?).
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They may also understand, rightly, that this will turn out to be a more traditional novel than the raucous and inventive "Goon Squad," although the two books offer many of the same pleasures, including fine turns of phrase, a richly imagined environs and a restless investigation into human nature.
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" On "Castle Rock," Caplan's character Annie is a mentally ill nurse with a homicidal streak, who speaks in odd turns-of-phrase and walks with a stiff gait — something Caplan said she developed because she wasn't "physically imposing" but wanted to "do something that looked unsettling and maybe a little off.
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The book has an uneven pace: The first four chapters analyze with philological precision the textual evidence present in the selected works to prove how some words, lines, and turns of phrase are actually an echo of the view that Victorians had about Japan in terms of stereotypes, decor, and poetry.
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Within hours of Mr. Trump's threat last week to visit "fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen" on North Korea, Mr. Dale offered up a likely possibility — that Mr. Trump, who enjoys stress-testing favorite turns of phrase, had wandered into a threat almost by accident.
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Contemporary feminists like Rebecca Solnit coalesced around "break the silence" and similar turns of phrase as their operating maxims, the underlying idea being that survivors would speak out about their experiences, both as a means by which to shed the fetters of shame, and to draw attention to the widespread nature of abuse.
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If anything, translating the book from Kannada into Indian English (for a version published in India last year) proved less complicated than the subsequent jump from Indian to American English; small turns of phrase evocative to the Indian reader — "washing vessels" for washing dishes, "iron box" for iron — had to be tweaked.
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Told in a diary format over the year that Ruth spends at home, "Goodbye, Vitamin" is a quietly brilliant disquisition on family, relationships and adulthood, told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I'd finished reading.
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And while Obama's speechmaking may have become mundane through repetition at home, and his more aloof disposition with foreign leaders abroad have led to mostly distant relationships with his counterparts, his lofty turns of phrase can still move audiences who are seeing him for the first time and for whom he remains a hero.
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The record is a mix of social topics that make him particularly angry (eroding access to healthcare for women), turns of phrase that don't make sense ("Boys will be boys"), and for the first time, topical political humor—including bits about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and even Bobby Jindal.
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Collectively, the album is more than brilliantly gonzo one-liners and head-cracking turns of phrase, it's the first release in a very long time, perhaps since that legend-cementing run in the mid-2000s where it felt like Wayne was dropping an album or mixtape every few months, where he again transcends easy category.
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You've got Cher turning in top-tier acting work, Nicolas Cage giving a performance that's funny and passionate without the self-parodic vibes he's given off for the last 15 years, and an amazing screenplay from John Patrick Shanley, crammed with classic one-liners and beautiful turns of phrase that double as mantras for navigating love's choppy waters.
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From the semi-concept album vibe of Organ Fight—which is about getting over a life-shattering breakup—to explorations of his own faults like "I Wish I Was Sober," Scott tended to put it all out there, and to put it out there with turns of phrase and insights that could be devastating, especially when they were pointed inward.
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Books this forbiddingly steep need to be entertaining in multiple ways to make them worth the climb, and Moore keeps lobbing treats to urge his readers onward: luscious turns of phrase, unexpected callbacks and internal links, philosophical digressions, Dad jokes, fantastical inventions like the flower resembling a cluster of fairies — the "Puck's Hat" or "Bedlam Jenny" — that is the only food the dead can eat.
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Everything irritating about her creative writing technique — her gimmicky conceits, her artful turns of phrase ("You can come over/but you can't come in"), her characters that stand for big concepts, the way she explains the moral of the story at the end — turns powerful given that she's dealing with archetypes rather than isolated narrative, and given that the archetypes in each song reinforce each other.
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His best bet for survival is not to be noticed: dyeing his hair in an effort to blend in, living clandestinely in a room on top of a grocery store, learning accents and turns of phrase and small idiosyncrasies that will allow him to tiptoe through life as a migrant while waiting for the miracle of his legalization (I use my italics advisedly) summed up in the novel's title.
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There are also turns of phrase that are still shocking and delightful even now, such as this self-description from "Nadine": Pushing through the crowd trying to get to where she's atI was campaign shouting like a Southern diplomat When I first started listening to Berry, I would listen to "You Never Can Tell," a four-stanza fairy tale of a love story, over and over again, trying to figure out how it worked.
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"Devil's Bargain:" Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency Most compelling character: Given that the book reads like an odd hagiography of Steve Bannon, it's impossible for him not to be its most compelling character: Brilliant, slovenly, gleefully opportunistic and given to profane eruptions and weird turns of phrase, proudly referring to Trump supporters as fellow "hobbits" and "grundoons," and dismissing dumb and useless people as "schmendricks" and "mooks" (ironic, since Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager was, of course, Robby Mook).
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