How To Use periphrasis In A Sentence
- Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
- This isn't what ‘ineffable’ means: she's using it as a fancy periphrasis for ‘unspeakable’, but its orientation is exactly the opposite.
- When Johnson refers to his mind as ‘Summus… celsa dominator [in] arce ’, the elaborate periphrasis mockingly dramatizes the blustery ‘empty force’ of his mind's pretensions.
- Can one be an avid fan of a book - or is this lazy-minded periphrasis for ‘favourite’?
- [Sidenote: _Periphrasis_, or the Figure of ambage.] The Arte of English Poesie
- The parodic cupid's dart is described with the maximum of periphrasis compatible with not actually disguising what the organ is, ‘a piece of flesh, the characteristic part of a barrow-pig’.
- Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synec-doche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes-the whole bag of tricks. The Two Malcontents
- Tell me, then, for you can, in what periphrasis of language, in what circumvolution of phrase, I shall envelope, yet not conceal, the plain story. The Letters of Robert Burns
- In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
- In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
