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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one`s real and one`s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I`m on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Gary Lucas
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
George Crumb
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[Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometimes were, in Wilson`s habitual frequent rewrites) interchanged. His dramatic structures and even his use of the musical powers of African American idioms we...
Tony Kushner
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one`s real and one`s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell
Keywords: aims :: and :: as :: between :: clear :: cuttlefish :: declared :: enemy :: exhausted :: gap :: great :: idioms :: ink :: insincerity :: instinctively :: is :: it :: language :: like :: long :: of :: one :: out :: real :: spurting :: the :: there :: to :: turns :: were :: when :: wordsSubject: Language QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
