All Episodes
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser — 165 episodes
000 – Introduction
001 – How To Use This Book
002 – Plan of Study
003 – Useful Phrases: abandoned hope – ample culture
004 – Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness – azure sky
005 – Useful Phrases: babbling gossip – bygone period
006 – Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase – collateral duties
007 – Useful Phrases: collective wisdom – contingent reasons
008 – Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor – cynical disregard
009 – Useful Phrases: damaging admission – diligently propagated
010 – Useful Phrases: dim comprehension – dynastic insolence
011 – Useful Phrases: eager animosity – entrancing sadness
012 – Useful Phrases: enveloping presence – exultant condition
013 – Useful Phrases: facetious mood – flickering conscience
014 – Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy – futile babble
015 – Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences – gymnastic agility
016 – Useful Phrases: habitual deference – hysterical agitation
017 – Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude – incipient fancy
018 – Useful Phrases: incisive critic – inquisitional rack
019 – Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer – isolated splendor
020 – Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility – lying equivocations
021 – Useful Phrases: maddening monotony – meteoric splendors
022 – Useful Phrases: methodical regularity – mythical kingdom
023 – Useful Phrases: naive manner – overworked drudge
024 – Useful Phrases: pacific disposition – political malcontent
025 – Useful Phrases: polluting taints – pyrotechnic outburst
026 – Useful Phrases: quailing culprit – remarkable sagacity
027 – Useful Phrases: remedial measure – ruthless commercialism
028 – Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence – shuddering reluctance
029 – Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries – starched sterility
030 – Useful Phrases: starlit eminence – systematic interaction
031 – Useful Phrases: tacit assumption – tyrannical disposition
032 – Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity – undue predilection
033 – Useful Phrases: undulating hills – unpalatable truth
034 – Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities – utmost scorn
035 – Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity – vulnerable foe
036 – Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise – zoologically considered
037 – Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed – awkwardness and crudity
038 – Significant Phrases: babel and confusion – civilized and cultured
039 – Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild – cynical and contemptuous
040 – Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls – digressive and wanton
041 – Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating – dwindle and disappear
042 – Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy – exuberant and infectious
043 – Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated – futile and untrustworthy
044 – Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace – hypocrisy and impudence
045 – Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements – indomitable and dogged
046 – Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded – isolated and detached
047 – Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter – luxury and pomp
048 – Significant Phrases: madness and folly – mystic and wonderful
049 – Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling – overworked and fagged
050 – Significant Phrases: pains and penalties – puzzled and affected
051 – Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence – rust and disuse
052 – Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy – spacious and lofty
053 – Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous – sympathetic and consoling
054 – Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic – tyrant and oppressor
055 – Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque – vulgar and artificial
056 – Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic – zigzag and deviating
057 – Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity – busy, active, and toiling
058 – Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming – calculated, logical, and dispassionate
059 – Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched – danger, difficulty, and hardship
060 – Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence – fustian, padding, and irrelevancy
061 – Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled – humor, fancy, and susceptibility
062 – Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate – luxurious, whimsical, and selfish
063 – Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately – overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome
064 – Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation – puzzles, tangles, and questionings
065 – Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities – rush, roar, and shriek
066 – Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness – sympathy, service, and compassion
067 – Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement – wrinkled, careworn, and pale
068 – Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,… – business, profession,…
069 – Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,… – dull, heavy,…
070 – Impressive Phrases: earth, air,… – gross, academic,..
071 – Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,… – lucidity, impressiveness,…
072 – Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,… – purpose, meaning,…
073 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,… – symmetry, proportion,..
074 – Edit: Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,… – worry, annoyance,…
075 – Prepositional Phrases of: abandon of spontaneity – business of life
076 – Prepositional Phrases of: cadences of delirium – dust of defeat
077 – Prepositional Phrases of: earnestness of enthusiasm – futility of pride
078 – Prepositional Phrases of: gaiety of spirit – irony of life
079 – Prepositional Phrases of: jangle of sounds – overflow of vitality
080 – Prepositional Phrases of: page of desolation – ruts of conventionality
081 – Prepositional Phrases of: sadness of soul – system of aspersion
082 – Prepositional Phrases of: taint of megalomania – zone of delusion
083 – Prepositional Phrases by: affected by externals – hushed by denial
084 – Prepositional Phrases by: impelled by duty – wrenched by emotions
085 – Prepositional Phrases in: absorbed in meditation – kept in abeyance
086 – Prepositional Phrases in: landmarks in memory – weak in conception
087 – Prepositional Phrases into: abashed into silence – goaded into action
088 – Prepositional Phrases into: hushed into silence – withdraw into solitude
089 – Prepositional Phrases to: addicted to flattery – hostile to progress
090 – Prepositional Phrases to: impervious to suggestion – yield to reason
091 – Prepositional Phrases with: abounding with plenty – intoxicated with joy
092 – Prepositional Phrases with: kindle with enthusiasm – work with zeal
093 – Business Phrases
094 – Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face – A nimble-witted opponent
095 – Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind – A wordless farewell
096 – Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting – Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence
097 – Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth – Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows
098 – Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze – Guilty of girlish sentimentality
099 – Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage – Humiliating paltriness of revenge
100 – Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence – Kiss-provoking lips
101 – Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle – Rudely reminded of life’s serious issues
102 – Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill – Swift summer into the autumn flowed
103 – Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind – The hungry curiosity of the mind
104 – Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought – The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries
105 – Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden – Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind
106 – Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity – Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content
107 – Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him – And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech
108 – Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters… – Awkward as a cart-horse
109 – Striking Similes: Babbling like a child – Dull as champagne
110 – Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave – Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts …
111 – Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes – Hushed like a breathless lyre
112 – Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew – Kingdoms melt away like snow
113 – Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant – Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs
114 – Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away – Like sweet thoughts in a dream
115 – Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power – Lovely the land unknown…
116 – Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay – Quivering like an eager race-horse to start
117 – Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep… – Swifter than the twinkling of an eye
118 – Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him… – The music almost died away…
119 – Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife – Then the lover sighing like furnace
120 – Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms – Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle
121 – Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow – Youth like a summer morn
122 – Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! – Human nature interests me very much indeed
123 – Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight – I could never forgive myself for that
124 – Edit: Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right – I seem to have heard that sentiment before
125 – Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it – It has never occurred to me
126 – Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact – It would take too long to formulate my thought
127 – Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time – Surely you would not countenance that
128 – Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you – True, I forgot!
129 – Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true – Would you mind telling me your opinion?
130 – Conversational Phrases: Yes and no – Your statement is somewhat startling
131 – Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment – And next I would ask
132 – Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention – Away then with the notion
133 – Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then – But it has been suggested to me
134 – Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact – By this time it will be suspected
135 – Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed – Granting all this
136 – Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said – However, it is to me a very refreshing thing
137 – Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement – I am willing to know
138 – Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation – I distrust all general theories of
139 – Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you – I hasten to concede
140 – Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion – I hope you will not accuse me
141 – Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed – I rejoice to think I remark here
142 – Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made – I thank you very sincerely for the honor
143 – Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying – I yielded to the earnest solicitations
144 – Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded – In widening our view
145 – Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me – It is my present purpose
146 – Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question – It may still more probably be said
147 – Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight – Just the reverse is true
148 – Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation – My regret is intensified by the thought
149 – Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say – Now, you will understand from this
150 – Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again – Surely it is not too much for me to say
151 – Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance – The whole story of civilization
152 – Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration – Think of the cool disregard
153 – Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises – Very strange is this indeed
154 – Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to – What strikes the mind so forcibly
155 – Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe – Your presence seems to say
156 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
157 – Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts – A pleasant flow of appropriate language
158 – Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief – Awaited with feverish anxiety
159 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro – Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions
160 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy – Hopelessly belated in its appearance
161 – Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him – Its dominating and inspiring influence
162 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes – Quixotically generous about money
163 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy – Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling
164 – Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart – The sycophants of the rich