| This often works, but if you are writing in the active mood, the changes to the passive for the circumlocutions can be irksome. |
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| Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases. |
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| That simple gesture undercuts all the caveats, qualifications and circumlocutions. |
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| The patients are either able to communicate to some extent by means of circumlocutions or they cannot communicate at all. |
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| When senior Tories are asked about his tax affairs their squirming circumlocutions are painful to hear. |
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| Has a speaking vocabulary sufficient to respond simply with some circumlocutions. |
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| In those languages, they can therefore only be translated using circumlocutions and approximations, which inevitably result in semantic divergences between the various language versions. |
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| You touch upon something and leave it, or you must make circumlocutions. |
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| Is it not difficult to categorize all the Son of man sayings either as circumlocutions for the first-person singular pronoun, or as another means of referring generically to humanity? |
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| After Salam 3 you will be able to express most things you want to say in Arabic and will be able to find circumlocutions if you don't have the right word. |
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| Although a top civil servant, Lord Turnbull always eschewed the silky circumlocutions supposedly preferred by his ilk in favour of plain speaking. |
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| On the naming tests, he demonstrated severe anomia with numerous circumlocutions and semantic paraphasia. |
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| The crystal sounds of the sound elixir blend into multiple tracks and audio circumlocutions that give a sense of the fourth dimension of acoustic space. |
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| In effect, from the swaggering symbolic background unclasped by a Greek verb, a vague figure slowly rises, every now and then, from Devisch's circumlocutions. |
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| If the word is not parliamentary, then I wonder how we should classify this action, when the only way to describe it in the House is by using circumlocutions. |
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| I have a sufficient vocabulary to express myself with some circumlocutions on most topics pertinent to my everyday life such as family, hobbies and interests, work, travel, and current events. |
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| Gifted with unusual cleverness and iron resolution, Leah Rabin talked without circumlocutions, going straight on to the very heart of the matter with no worries about pleasing anyone. |
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| Indeed, the symbolic association of words and colours in their clever use of metaphors, circumlocutions and other surrealistic images, fascinated me. |
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| The politically correct society is the civilised society, however much some may squirm at the more inelegant official circumlocutions designed to avoid offence. |
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