Example sentences for: mutatis

How can you use “mutatis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?

  • If this is too easy, consider this bonus question: Who was the éminence rouge ? Hint: Ralph Reed, mutatis mutandis, would be a natural candidate for the title of "éminence blanche ."

  • But Dowd is, mutatis mutandis, the H.L.

  • The Apostle has a laid-back intimacy that reminds me, mutatis mutandis, of Jean Renoir, and a documentarian's penchant for letting events play out at their own sweet speed.


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