Salyes has an ear for regional accents and colloquial dialogue, and an eye for quotidian details.
The writer David Mamet (who shares script credit with Hilary Henkin) contributes ticklishly precise colloquial dialogue.
We received a reprieve most of the time in colloquial English, but never in written English.
"I'm drawn to a full English, " he said, referring to the colloquial term for a fried breakfast.
In more colloquial terms, this means consumers have the incentive to spend on health care until it hurts.
The colloquial Hindi word, which means "worthless" or "incompetent, " was not just undeserved.
In America a kind of colloquial vernacular, it refers to a kind of a - it's a rude expression.
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He is most frivolous when he is most earnest, and when he is frank and colloquial he is most profound.
We used to laugh over aposiopesis in Latin class because it seemed disarmingly colloquial for a sea god to talk like that.
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Hart and Gershwin, after all, are credited with loosening up songwriting conventions and helping pioneer a more colloquial, natural-sounding approach to lyrics.
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He sees Data as his equal, an android whose positronic net is bent on being funnier, more colloquial, more likable, more emotional.
"Sheikh Abu Abdullah is ready to see you, " he said, using the colloquial term Osama Bin Laden's friends and followers addressed him by.
Though most of us feel dis-eased around disease, colloquial English proffers a sparse vocabulary for the expression of embarrassment, fear, anxiety, grief or sorrow.
Using more colloquial language, trying to control spending with higher taxes is like trying to cure alcoholics by giving them keys to a liquor store.
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Lesser hackers might spearphish while posing as Nigerian princes, but Unit 61398 developed sophisticated ways, including colloquial language, to mimic corporate and governmental interoffice emails.
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But aposiopesis is important in literature because of its colloquial humanness.
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According to trusty old Wikipedia, the term scuttlebutt corresponds to the iconic colloquial concept of a water cooler, which becomes the locus of congregation and casual discussion.
Its colloquial name stems from the odor emitted from glands on its abdomen a defense mechanism triggered by disturbances like predators or homeowners who stumble upon them in attics.
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In a fit of what can only be described as a collective bout of humour, the hurricane force winds were given the colloquial name for a Scottish scrotum.
The comment may have been intended as just a colloquial way of describing the responsibility that the chief executive will have for making the new health system work.
He has found a way to - and he was the first, I think, to really do this - capture the feeling and the spirit of colloquial Egyptian, in classical Arabic.
When Allen came out with that poem in a direct, colloquial, funny, vernacular, frank and unembarrassed powerful way, he spoke to the people's condition, and it touched on things that were in their hearts.
Hammami regularly chats on Twitter with a group of American terrorism experts, conversations that are so colloquial and so infused with Americana that many in the counter-terror field have formed a type of digital bond with Hammami.
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