Periphrastic

I almost said "periphrastic" -- ways of putting simple thoughts into words. ❋ Unknown (1976)

Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. ❋ Unknown (1877)

But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

In the sentence “Where can I get scrod?”, the cabbie is apparently taking “get scrod” as the periphrastic passive voice of “screw”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Embedded in a clause, with regard to and its brethren are increasingly overworked, leading to a weak and periphrastic style. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet, just as the periphrastic construction of de gustibus non disputandum est suggests both in Latin and Kant's ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nevertheless, the language has adapted other periphrastic ways of expressing the idea that is put across in other languages by a subjunctive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If, as I guess, you're going for "I don't want you here, go away", I suggest using a passive periphrastic: "sed non hic manendus es." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Youths are as likely to consider Mahler's Kindertotenlieder cool as they are to get excited about the dative of agent and its use with the passive periphrastic. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2008)

If this oration appear rather long for the occasion, the reader must recollect that Captain MacTurk had in all probability the trouble of translating it from the periphrastic language of Ossian, in which it was originally conceived in his own mind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I always thought I was more sesquipedalian than periphrastic, but maybe I'm both. ❋ Ms Robinson (2007)

That is unusual, considering that Ukrainian has a synthetic future in place of the periphrastic Russian, and Polish has some interesting animate/inanimate variations. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What evolutionary psychology does not tell us, however, is why some people use clicks, some use rising and falling tones, why the kings of England finally came around to speaking English at home instead of French, or how the use of the periphrastic "do," as in the replacement of phrases like "I go not" by "I do not go," grew in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ❋ Lewontin, Richard C. (2005)