| In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis. |
| If the sense demanded the use of such a word, a periphrasis of 'noble' words must be employed instead. |
| Mr. Hardie did not at first see the exact purport of this oleaginous periphrasis. |
| Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. |
| The periphrasis is a metaphor, and thus has the same life-span as a metaphor. |
| The role of catenae for the theory of periphrasis is illustrated with the trees that follow. |
