Shakespeare's cynical turn of phrase - "They doth protest too much" - comes to mind.
Was that a beautiful turn of phrase or a particularly clunky section that could do with an edit?
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"He's a must-have target for slapstick terrorists like us, " said Godin, in a perhaps unfortunate turn of phrase.
Barack Obama gave a dull and pedestrian speech tonight, with nary an interesting thematic device, policy detail, or even one turn of phrase.
You do not need to oppose every one of the government's proposals to find something ugly in this cast of thought and turn of phrase.
Filipinos, adopting an American turn of phrase, refer to the mutual interference among the different branches of government as a system of checks and balances.
Again and again, they drive in the nail with a single blow a sardonic turn of phrase, a pause, a silence that allows us to draw our own conclusions.
We, his grandchildren, knew him as papa, and he knew us as the Hitler Youth - you didn't think his amazing turn of phrase just went to rugby did you?
Indeed, it seems fair to say that if you have the quick wit and the pithy turn of phrase traditionally needed to succeed as a public intellectual, then you are one of nature's bloggers.
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In a turn of phrase which I think many Keynesians today might feel would have been better left unsaid, Keynes argued that this would work even if workers were hired by the government simply to dig holes in the ground and fill them up again.
Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who is cursed, laid to rest for two hundred years, then sprung from his coffin in 1972 the cue for a stream of period gags, as the highfalutin vampire with the lordly turn of phrase gets stuck in the era of the lava lamp.
The fatigue has been complicated by the fact that Obama has been battling a nasty cold, telling aides he feels like he's got an "acorn up my nose" -- an interesting turn of phrase I had never heard before but seems to mean the president is stuffed up.
With that wonderful turn of a phrase, Senior Judge Stephen Williams began another U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.
Interrupt someone explaining why they love a certain restaurant to point out a clumsy turn-of-phrase?
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Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.
As scriptwriter, Mr Yong partly retains the epistolary form of the novel and can turn a witty phrase.
He can turn a phrase, and stuck the memorable "party of crooks and thieves" label on the ruling United Russia Party.
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