phrasemaking

Gingrich, whose "Contract With America" was a brilliant piece of political phrasemaking, is well aware that the phrase "social engineering" originated with Lenin's attempts to radically rebuild Russian society in the years that immediately followed the Bolshevik Revolution.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: America's Real Radicals: The 40 Extremist Senators Who Voted Against Medicare RJ 2011

The author's relish for food is equaled by her relish for phrasemaking.

Anglo-Saxon On the Menu Henry Hitchings 2011

Gingrich, whose "Contract With America" was a brilliant piece of political phrasemaking, is well aware that the phrase "social engineering" originated with Lenin's attempts to radically rebuild Russian society in the years that immediately followed the Bolshevik Revolution.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: America's Real Radicals: The 40 Extremist Senators Who Voted Against Medicare RJ 2011

The vivid phrasemaking is liquid gold on the actors 'tongues and the literary craftsmanship is admirable, with details in the monologues overlapping at just the right moment to snap a bleak image indelibly into place.

Rosemary Jenkinson's 'Stella Morgan' is good, but not great, at Keegan Theatre 2010

Although America sometimes exhibits imperial behavior, the romanticizing of “American empire” is not even close to taking material, let alone constitutional, form outside academic phrasemaking.

Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

He had called it, with his Shakespearean ear for phrasemaking, the “centrifugal theory”—the idea that cancer, like a malevolent pinwheel, tended to spread in ever-growing arcs from a single central focus in the body.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

He had called it, with his Shakespearean ear for phrasemaking, the “centrifugal theory”—the idea that cancer, like a malevolent pinwheel, tended to spread in ever-growing arcs from a single central focus in the body.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

He had called it, with his Shakespearean ear for phrasemaking, the “centrifugal theory”—the idea that cancer, like a malevolent pinwheel, tended to spread in ever-growing arcs from a single central focus in the body.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

As the campaign's poll-tested phrasemaking constantly reminds us, voters crave change above all else.

Bill Clinton Questions Obama's Experience 2009

The critics would acknowledge Shakespeare's gift for phrasemaking, but assail plot twists — e.g., the unlikely pirate attack that sends Hamlet back to Denmark — that keep the play from completely "working."

Today’s Man 2009