The clumsy phraseology of his closing paragraph coupled not badly a frank avowal of ambition with an ingenuous expression of personal modesty.
To speak of the lofty tone of these speeches comes dangerously near to the distasteful phraseology of extravagant laudation, than which nothing else can produce upon honest men a worse impression.
For the loveliest idyll of friendship is told in the phraseology of fancy-work.
We indite all our letters in the phraseologyof the business college.
The phraseology is the expression, in grammatical form, of the great truth, 'Whatsoever things the Father doeth, these also doth the Son likewise.
Cicero compares the phraseology of the Stoics with that of the Peripatetics, maintaining that the precision of the former is well adapted to legal discussions, and the redundancy of the latter to oratory.
The quaint spelling and old-fashioned phraseology are preserved, and the reader will quickly detect many vulgar street words, old acquaintances, dressed in antique garb.
DARK HORSE, in racing phraseology a horse whose chance of success is unknown, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of comment.
Yet it cannot be denied but that a great deal of Slang phraseology and disagreeable vulgarism have gradually crept into the very pulpits which should give forth as pure speech as doctrine.
Growing boys and high-spirited young fellows detest restraint of all kinds, and prefer making a dash at life in a Slang phraseology of their own, to all the set forms and syntactical rules of Alma Mater.
A JOB in political phraseology is a Government office or contract, obtained by secret influence or favouritism.
Particular as lawyers generally are about the meaning of words, they have not prevented an unauthorisedphraseology from arising, which we may term Legal Slang.
The verses are mostly parodies of popular authors, and abound in the slang of pugilism, and the phraseology of the fast life of the period.
He puts the saying into the mouth of another; but the phraseology is probably his own: and at any rate I suppose we may take it as a phrase from Scotch Gaelic, which is all but the same as Irish Gaelic.
But whoever reads it feels that all this combined phraseology gushes not from a patriotic heart; every one detects therein bids for the next Presidency.
The greater and stronger a nation, the less empty phraseology is needed when one speaks in the nation's name.
They that wait upon the Lord' is Old Testament dialect for what in New Testament phraseology is meant by 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The phraseology of this appears to imply that Marco was still alive, and this agrees with the date assigned to the work by Ramusio.
Employing the old phraseology and division of the schools, we might term this a cosmology, in a moral and intellectual sense, and with a regard to what human philosophy can attain to.
However greatly the outward garb of language and phraseology may have varied in the course of centuries, still the error itself has remained identical and free from change.
I must not, however, omit to remind you that this term in modern phraseology has fallen very far below its primary meaning, and is often so taken as to designate nothing more than a mere playful mockery.
It arises entirely from a defective point of view, and the perversion of thought involved in the very theory of identity; and no phraseology or skill of composition, however unparalleled, will ever be able totally to remove it.
On this account, a precise and correct phraseologyis of the utmost importance toward a right solution of this leading topic of philosophical inquiry.
If the reverend Antiquarian can find this kind of phraseology in any one poet of the time of King Edward IV.
Every poetical reader will find instances of modern phraseology in almost every page of these spurious productions.
He has none of the freshness of phraseology and wealth of novel illustrations which attract to James and Bergson their wide circle of admirers.
The proper phraseology to use is, "Have you lunched?
A description which describes in inoffensive language that which is of itself offensive, or a figure which uses agreeable phraseology when the literal would be offensive, is called a euphemism.
So much for offenders past repentance; and we all know that the sort of phraseologyunder consideration is daily becoming more and more common.
Mr. Dyce, however, says it was "the phraseologyof Shakespeare's time.
The phraseologyhere is evidently that of the race-course, where a heat is a race.
It has substituted a technical phraseology for the common use of language, being neither able to win acceptance for the one nor to get rid of the other.
In the classic phraseology of Toombs, "there was a 'nigger' in it.
By this time agreement had been reached in the caucus, so that Douglas was quite willing to modify the phraseology of the bill.
Always in these recitals we find the phraseology which lovers employ when exalting the loved one above the world.
French, especially the philosophic and abstract phraseology of the new laws and proclamations, remains gibberish to their inhabitants.
The characters talk the veriest commonplaces, and announce the most humdrum intentions in phraseology as flat and wearisome.
In one of these he addresses God in the phraseology of a member of the P.
They left the battlefield in charge of the Indians--at least, in the popular phraseology of that day, "they got up and got out.
During the preparation of these drafts the commissioners held frequent consultations, as often as once or twice a week, to discuss and agree upon the proper phraseology to be adopted, or arrangement of subject-matter in the proposed act.
His pedantic phraseology reveals his hand in the construction of the reply to the Commissioners' remonstrances and threats.
An author whose phraseology is like a combination of that used by Ancient Pistol with that of Sir Thomas Browne may have enthusiastic admirers, but they are almost certain to be few in number.
Thus, on the subject of the Trinity, he sometimes speaks most distinctly in the language of orthodoxy, whilst again he employs phraseology which rather savours of the creed of Sabellius or of Arius.
But the holy Catholic Church, in the current ecclesiastical phraseology of the third century, had a very different signification.
His phraseology is all the more important as he lived for some time in Rome, and as he undoubtedly adopted the style of expression once current in the great city.
He is apt to persevere, in spite of fashion, in the use of the phraseology to which he has been accustomed from his childhood.
Thus, to use the phraseology current towards the end of the second century, the new chief pastor "obtained the lot of the episcopacy.
Tertullian and other writers of the third century make use of phraseology equally unguarded.
He had beautiful white hair, a very soft voice, and a welcoming, wheedling manner; he was extremely fluent and zealous in using the pious phraseology of the sect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phraseology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
