单词 | circumlocutory |
例句 | Isn't it astonishing, for example, how, once elected, MPs continue the daft traditions of jeering, guffawing and addressing their colleagues by ridiculous circumlocutory terms such as "the right honourable member"? In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z “You know,” I thought to myself during one of the many circumlocutory and not-particularly-funny sequences in Life After Beth, “this is probably some sort of metaphor about the universal desire to retain one’s youth.” Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term. So long, long words? 2013-06-04T11:51:53Z The findings from these plodding crustaceans' cerebrums might seem circumlocutory, but, the researchers contend, they provide a new model for how these key early actions are organized in the brains of many animals. Consider the crayfish: How a claw-full of neurons makes crustaceans crawl [Video] 2011-04-14T21:15:00.490Z "Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?" Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Yet his formality is not of the slow and circumlocutory sort; on the contrary, it is energetically precise, and helps rather than mars the sound casting of each idea. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges." Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man For in the circumlocutory native way of dealing with matters of importance, Tyisandhlu had received with favour his request, preferred after the same method, that some of his possessions should be restored to him. The Sign of the Spider This was diffuse and circumlocutory, like the first. On the Stairs Long and circumlocutory terms are just as elegant in the mouth of a fashionable preacher as shorter and uglier words in the mouth of some one else. The Patient Observer And His Friends In physics things without motion are usually things without life; and in government it is the bureaus least disturbed by change that are most stagnated and most circumlocutory. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition But, it should be added, that such anecdotes are not told in the circumlocutory style of gossip, nor nipt in the bud by undeveloped brevity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 It expressed itself enigmatically; it was circumlocutory, sad, and mysterious. Wylder's Hand Stammering becomes more eloquent than oratory, a child's impulsiveness wiser than circumlocutory experience. Albert Durer After this and various other circumlocutory efforts and hints, he at last spoke more plainly. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Temple, who of all men is least like Commissioner Falconer in circumlocutory address, at once blurted out, 'Is Count Altenberg going to be married?' Tales and Novels — Volume 07 "Thus then," continued the Reeve, "I will, with use of no verbiage circumlocutory, explain." The Geste of Duke Jocelyn The mutes and the strangling were motives which in a seraglio could hardly be dispensed with; and so he gives, on several occasions, very elegant circumlocutory descriptions of strangling. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature After supper the capatas got me alone, and with excessive friendliness of manner, and an abundance of circumlocutory phrases, advised me to leave the estancia, as it would not be safe for me to remain. The Purple Land "They let off fireworks when he was born," say the French in a slyly witty proverb, which is a circumlocutory way of saying that a man won't set the Thames on fire. Without Prejudice I was silent an instant, thinking how to find words passably comprehensible and yet conventionally circumlocutory and euphemistic. To-morrow? Good Bax, ne'er have I heard thee to so great advantage—verbiage circumlocutory—and thou—thou such small man to boot! The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me. Sight Unseen The astronomer seemed pleased with the proposal, and at once commenced a verbose and somewhat circumlocutory address, of which the following summary presents the main features. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space |
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