For Lupica, baseball is still about (in Donald Hall's lovely phrase) "fathers playing catch with sons."

It's a lovely phrase, and echoes an argument I've been hearing for years now, that for young listeners music isn't as important as it used to be.

Couldn't we... what's that lovely old Earth phrase?

It's a lovely phrase, but it doesn't mean a thing.

Marina Fronts, who taught me all sorts of lovely Russian phrases.

Bobrick's book is obviously a labor of love, but it is also, in Robert Frost's lovely phrase, the tribute of the current to the source.

A lovely phrase, as he put it.

For Singer and Mason, the loveliest phrase in the English language may be "family farm."

(There's a lovely phrase: "the licentiousness of speech and of the press.")

I would also thank her for the lovely phrase 'a fitness programme for the audiovisual media'.