"elegant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the great Italian tradition he fused words and music into elegant phrases.
- In Clyde Kluckhohn's elegant phrase, culture is a 'design for living' held by members of a particular society.
- All of these questions no doubt have answers that Professor Galbraith could supply in a few of his corrosively elegant phrases.
- The prudent man with an elegant phrase extricates himself from any complication, and can use his tongue with the lightness of a feather.
- For if, treating it as a science, we were to ask for reasons and proofs, we would be put off with elegant phrases (bons mots).
- Jazz cadences are tacked onto classically elegant phrases.
- But then, in the elegant phrase of the journalist Brian Brown, liberals these days have forgotten how to be liberal.
- This is the point at which you confront yourself, grow up, fish or cut bait, or some less elegant phrase.
- He was known to sadistically mouth elegant phrases of apology in the moments before he killed or maimed his victims.
- He was a prudent man, and a Latin scholar, and spoke in elegant phrases; his conversation and writings showed his excellent education.
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