| In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis. |
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| In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis. |
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| Literary translation is challenging, and tends to work best when the translator has recourse to the amplifying and telescoping powers of periphrasis, poetic license, and, if it comes to it, a discreet footnote here or there. |
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| To generalise on this basis that all present participles used for adjectival periphrasis are adjectivised, is contestable, to say the least. |
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| Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. |
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| While periphrasis concerns all categories of syntax, it is most visible with verb catenae. |
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| The role of catenae for the theory of periphrasis is illustrated with the trees that follow. |
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| Even strongly inflected synthetic languages sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms. |
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| Thus, the sense of imminent future that the new Testament present tense can include is sometimes rendered into Latin by means of a future or a periphrasis. |
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| They come closest to resembling a grammatical periphrasis such as. |
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| The second part of the volume and several poems in various cycles are devoted to this topic, accompanied by definitions of such tropes as simile, periphrasis, and hyperbole. |
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| Periphrasis is a characteristic of analytic languages, which tend to avoid inflection. |
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