phraseologist

Example Sentences

• "The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original."
• "They have descriptive powers, write charmingly, and tickle our sense of profundity with high-wounding dogmas and moral theories, which seem, indeed, plausible enough; but on comparing the description with the work describe, we find, now unfrequently, that the eloquent and dainty phraseologist could not distinguish between ugly and handsome, valueless fact and vital truth, archæology and imagination, good painting and bad; and when we meditate on the moral basis of his aesthetical theories, we find them, in all likelihood, something one-sided, ungenial, contracted, ascetic; their evil influence being indeed traceable in the falsely cramped and rigid lines of the pencils led by them."
• "In these works Mr. Hardy writes an English of strength and purity, with an almost Latin clearness and weight of words, avoiding for the most part the temptation to be too curious a phraseologist, which has sometimes proved too much for him."
• "When the officers of the corps made him a visit, he made us no speech; he was not a phraseologist by nature, he spoke but little, but what he said always made an impression, because it came from the heart."
• "The phraseologist of that ominous question is a southern gentleman named Chanler, who was at one time "convicted" in New York of being out of his in wits and incarcerated an insane asylum ."
• "A phraseologist like Sinatra overlays the metre with something like confiding speech."