Here are some recent examples of articulate people using a
vivid, evocative expression while emphasizing something and thus making their assertion indelible--examples
which, I hope, will inspire the rest of us into similarly imaginative use of
the language, especially when we are trying to break through the clutter.
- During an edition of “ABC This Week” earlier this month (Sunday, January 10), here’s how Nobel laureate Paul Krugman responded when asked whether the Federal Reserve is likely to increase interest rates again: “I’d be holding my fire. I wouldn’t have done (last month’s) rate hike because… The Fed should be waiting until it really, clearly sees the whites of inflation’s eyes because…”
- [From a
January 3, 2016, "60 Minutes" segment about 12-year-old jazz pianist prodigy Joey Alexander, who hails
from Bali and now lives in NY] Commenting on a rendition of “My Favorite Things” by the wunderkind,
jazz radio station WBGO’s Gary Walker: “If you listen to the way Joey Alexander plays (that piece of
music), at one point his sensibility through his left hand is almost like you’re
going to church…but his right hand is playing at such a fleeting moment, there is a
traffic ticket waiting for him when he’s done (laughter).”
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