This creates the necessity for circumlocutions and other expedients.
The true view then of different forms for the same idea is not that the inflections are unlike, but that the quasi-inflectional circumlocutions differ from each other in different dialects.
He starts well back from the subject and by a series of circumlocutions slowly advances to the point.
Thus the fear of mentioning the names of the dead gives rise tocircumlocutions of precisely the same sort as those which originate in a reluctance to name living people.
To convince ourselves that an ideal has rational authority and represents a better experience than the actual condition it is contrasted with, we must control the prophetic image by as many circumlocutions as possible.
The intent is all, and the bungling circumlocutions we may be driven to should be courteously ignored, like a stammerer's troubles, when once our meaning has been conveyed.
There were nocircumlocutions in Manet's nature, there were none in his art.
But Manet just painted it without circumlocutions of any kind.
The other verbs of this mood do not have their own forms, but are expressed by circumlocutions as we shall see.
The circumlocutions which are substituted for technical phrases are clear, neat, and exact.
Fernan, beginning to get impatient with the circumlocutions of which Alvar was so fond.
As the reader has already perceived, the page was one of those young men who are so fond of circumlocutionsthat they go to the grain, as sparrows, through the straw.
He began by circumlocutions so as to bring the conversation to the point desired; but when he reached it, his Uncle Manolo restrained him with a gesture full of dignity.
But Eguiburu had already made him three or four more calls, and was pressing him to guarantee the rest of the money; finally, after many circumlocutions and periphrases, he began to threaten him with a legal summons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumlocutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
