throat-clearing

I'm betting that gamification, in spite of its throat-clearing name, is going to be big in the commercial world -- and in schools.

The 'Gamification' Of Education Elizabeth Corcoran 2010

I'm betting that gamification, in spite of its throat-clearing name, is going to be big in the commercial world -- and in schools.

The 'Gamification' Of Education Elizabeth Corcoran 2010

Most of us -- including me -- do way too much throat-clearing at the beginning of our stories.

Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

That voice, that one-time awe-inspiring natural resource now sounds polluted and in perpetual need of a throat-clearing.

The revenge of the voice 2009

"We are not going to give a grade to this thing until we have a chance to talk to Palestinian Authority leaders about the implications," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, along with the usual throat-clearing about U.S. red lines.

Obama's Palestine Test 2012

Most of us -- including me -- do way too much throat-clearing at the beginning of our stories.

Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Improve Your Fiction Delia Lloyd 2011

After a lot of throat-clearing, he finally asked if there was any way I could stop my mother from calling their station because it was taking time away from real emergencies.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

For although "The Zoo Story" retains a shattering appeal in its undermining of affluent New York's urbane complacency, the preliminary act - set in Peter's Upper East Side apartment - comes across as a sedate exercise in throat-clearing.

'At Home at the Zoo' expands Albee's classic one-act play 2011

They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

The Fine Art of Where to Start Darin Strauss 2012

Only a second round of throat-clearing, obviously more forced than the last, kept him from losing himself once again in the woman in his arms.

Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011