| On the naming tests, he demonstrated severe anomia with numerous circumlocutions and semantic paraphasia. |
| Although a top civil servant, Lord Turnbull always eschewed the silky circumlocutions supposedly preferred by his ilk in favour of plain speaking. |
| That simple gesture undercuts all the caveats, qualifications and circumlocutions. |
| The patients are either able to communicate to some extent by means of circumlocutions or they cannot communicate at all. |
| This often works, but if you are writing in the active mood, the changes to the passive for the circumlocutions can be irksome. |
| In those languages, they can therefore only be translated using circumlocutions and approximations, which inevitably result in semantic divergences between the various language versions. |
