periphrasis

1 His classical fancy, his elegant turn for periphrasis and his venomous sting alike made him the idol of that urbane age.

2 The distinction had to be explained with much periphrasis, because the Arabic word 'Câtil' means a slayer, and is given indiscriminately to all who kill.

3 The philosophic pride of the eighteenth century was tickled by the use of general terms in description; the chosen periphrases are always more comprehensive than the names that they replace.

4 All who have even a slight acquaintance with sagas know the extraordinary periphrases for common objects, for men and maidens, for ships and swords, that bestrew them.

5 What hasty words, I wonder, of the rude and haughty admiral were represented by this sonorous periphrasis?

6 In all inquiries the writer has found it necessary to use periphrasis or to appeal to some illustration.

7 One man may even think the monosyllables in better taste than the periphrases. 

8 Boccaccio aims at a synthetic presentation of all he means to say; and he calls nothing by its right name, if he can devise a periphrasis.

9 But in Puritan America there is an additional problem, which I can hardly explain without a periphrasis.

10 They had what were called "the courtly manners of the old school"; were diffuse in style, and abounded in periphrasis.

11 Most women are clever at periphrasis, and will go a long way around to reach a desired topic, if for any reason they do not wish to approach it directly.

12 As that poem explains, his name could not be used in elegiac verse: hence the periphrasis in this passage.

13 Hazlitt affirms that this popular diction is "an expression or combination of words conveying a truth to the mind by a figure, periphrasis, antithesis, or hyperbole."

14 In Scaldic poetry, a periphrasis for a “lady” is “the ground of hangings,” or “the bridge of hangings,” all pointing to embroidery.

15 Throughout the history of the language we note an increasing tendency to periphrasis; but there was no great advance towards precision before demotic.

16 For it is no longer possible to conceal by any periphrasis the fact that the spirit the Opposition has to combat is no other than the spirit of lying.

17 Although the language is in parts ornate to a degree, the old periphrases are wholly excluded; and when simple things have to be said they are said with the utmost simplicity.

18 "The ordinary channels of information," to use Sir Robert's periphrasis, are the extraordinary ones too; and not only do they contain whatever Ministers know, but very often "something more."

19 All transitive verbs involve the notion of cause as activity, and would have to be replaced by some cumbrous periphrasis before this notion could be eliminated.

20 Dinner, otherwise a periphrasis for beans and dripping.

1 迂回

indirect roundabout devious circuitous periphrastic

2 转弯抹角的说法

ambages

3 迂说法

periphrastic