phrase-making

Much of the roughly 14-minute speech – the fourth-shortest inaugural address ever, but in the view of many experts rivaled only by Lincoln's – was marked by similar sparkling phrase-making:

Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010

Was foreign secretary Hague, puffed with blow-hard phrase-making, the man of the hour?

Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial 2011

Much of the roughly 14-minute speech – the fourth-shortest inaugural address ever, but in the view of many experts rivaled only by Lincoln's – was marked by similar sparkling phrase-making:

Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010

Mr. Raban's phrase-making wit is much in evidence throughout these pages "He was fortyish, with a narrow, sallow face and a limp moustache like a drowned vole", and there is something refreshing about a first-rate writer whose stories are literate and sophisticated but never self-consciously "literary" or in any way connected to the faculty lounge.

An Englishman Lights Out Barton Swaim 2011

Technically the characterisation is impeccable, the prose a subtle delight, the word selection everywhere perfect, the phrase-making fresh and arresting without self-consciousness.

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Edward Docx 2010

This is a moral problem [referring to the work of Toni Morrison] -- rather than any specific instance of critical analysis that might help us actually read the text more efficaciously, as opposed to admiring the critic's cute phrase-making or joining in on his moral sanctimony.

The State of Criticism 2008

On a night when we honor the memory of Walter Cronkite, one of America's greatest television journalists and a man who was dedicated to the truth, it seems particularly sad to have to correct the shameful errors of a man whose swagger and clever phrase-making keep him on the television screen, in spite of his tainted views.

Kenneth C. Davis: An American History Lesson for Pat Buchanan 2009

You have said with finality what needed to be said about the ignorant, misleading, bloated, orotund, bombastic phrase-making of Edgar and Daley.

Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers 2009

Friedman has no suppression of effect, no willingness to let a graf go by without his primordial penchant for phrase-making.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Code Friedman 2008

Any of Jarrell's collections display his deep love of literature, supported by his unerring judgment, slashing wit, brilliant phrase-making, and occasional corniness.

The Critical Library: Michael Dirda William Harryman 2007