While these are useful, they often add wordiness and length to sentences for no reason. Instead of an infinitive phrase, try using finite verbs or noun phrases. Circumlocutions are commonly used ...

An outline of the arrangement, which is partly disguised at first sight by the many technicalities and circumlocutions employed, will be almost, if not quite, sufficient for most of our readers.

Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker says US Vice President Kamala Harris is famous for some “utterly bizarre, ...

Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles ...

The computer-generated voice used pauses, colloquialisms and circumlocutions usually present in human speech. The voice was under control of Google's DeepMind WaveNet software that has been ...

The differences between these two performances are deceptive. Obama’s use of “code words” and circumlocutions to criticise his opponents is not really any more pointed or combative than ...

Cuban authorities go through strained circumlocutions to deny the existence of political prisoners in Cuba. Despite his admission that Cuban law bars vocal opposition to Castro and other officials ...

Harris, who is sometimes prone to wordy circumlocutions, looked assured and handled reasonably well some of the stickier questions, such as why she changed her position on fracking. She had a ...

The special counsel insistence on keeping the erstwhile vice president in his indictment risks another Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court at Washington may reverse the decision of the District Court, and then, atter that, a long trial by Jury will have to put the cap on the whole ot the circumlocutions of the ...

That way, the awful reality of the idea, shorn of fluffy circumlocutions, would be readily apparent to all. Thomas Teague SIR ...