I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

Deferral also comes into play, as the words that occur following " house " in any expression will revise the meaning of that word, sometimes dramatically so.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

( Matthew avoids using the holy word God in the expression " Kingdom of God "; instead he prefers the term " Kingdom of Heaven ", reflecting the Jewish tradition of not speaking the name of God ).

However, the word Universe was understood to mean the entirety of existence, so this expression fell into disuse and the objects instead became known as galaxies.

: first, the belief in the omnisignificance of Scripture, in the meaningfulness of its every word, letter, even ( according to one famous report ) scribal flourish ; second, the claim of the essential unity of Scripture as the expression of the single divine will.

The greatest difficulties that he and all public intellectuals of the time faced were the increasing technological aspects of the world that were outdating the printed word as a form of expression.

The word was adopted into English in the nineteenth century from medieval Icelandic treatises on poetics, in particular the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, and derives ultimately from the Old Norse verb kenna “ know, recognise ; perceive, feel ; show ; teach ; etc .”, as used in the expression kenna við “ to name after ; to express thing in terms of ”, “ name after ; refer to in terms of ”, and kenna til “ qualify by, make into a kenning by adding ”.

As a general expression of positive sentiment ( a stronger form of like ), love is commonly contrasted with hate ( or neutral apathy ); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust ; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close friendships.

This occurs where the referent of a word or expression in a second sentence is different from that in the immediately preceding sentence, especially where a change in referent has not been clearly identified.

He has also argued that the use of the word Indian derives not from a confusion with India but from a Spanish expression En Dio, meaning " in God ".

The word " negotiation " originated from the Latin expression, " negotiatus ", past participle of negotiare which means " to carry on business ".

To researcher John Green, Patterson would later characterize the creature's expression as one of " contempt and disgust ... you know how it is when the umpire tells you ' one more word and you're out of the game.

This is a numerical expression from a telephone keypad of the word " Pepsi ".

As an example of the syntax, the regular expression can be used to search for all instances of the string " ex " occurring after " word boundaries ".

Thus, the derogatory meaning of the word " myth " is the traditional Christian meaning, and the expression " Christian mythology ", as used in academic discourse, may offend Christians for this reason.

By analogy, the word " signature " may be used to refer to the characteristic expression of a process or thing.

Slang may fall into disuse over time ; sometimes, however, it grows more and more common until it becomes the dominant way of saying something, at which time it usually comes to be regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ( e. g. the Spanish word caballo or the English word ain't ), although in the case of taboo words there may not be an expression which is considered mainstream or acceptable.

The etymology of Versailles is clear that the argument tends to privilege the Latin word versare, meaning " to keep turning, turn over and over ", expression used in medieval times for plowed lands, cleared lands ( lands that had been repeatedly " turned over ").

Instead of recalling something related to the ' True Reality ' ( the reality of the spiritual world ), for the Muslim calligraphy is a visible expression of the highest art of all ; the art of the spoken word ( the transmittal of thoughts and of history ).

Folk etymologies exist which state that the word comes from the Late Latin expression carne vale, which means " farewell to meat ", signifying that those were the last days when one could eat meat before the fasting of Lent.

The word is not itself a negative expression, though it can of course be used as such depending on context.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Another indication of the popularity of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " is the use of " Yes, Virginia, there is ( a ) ( subject – person, object, activity, and / or concept )" ( or similar phrase ) in satire, parody, and as an idiomatic expression to insist that something is true, without the expression becoming a cliché.

In their bearing upon the question of papal infallibility these words have caused considerable attention and controversy, and prominence is given to the circumstance that in the Greek text of the letter to the Emperor which the phrase occurs, the milder expression subverti permisit (" allowed to be overthrown ...") is used for subvertare conatus est.

Orbis Catholicus is a Latin phrase meaning Catholic world, per the expression Urbi et Orbi, and refers to that area of Christendom under papal supremacy.

In 1882, the German physicist and physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz coined the phrase ‘ free energy ’ for the expression E − TS, in which the change in F ( or G ) determines the amount of energy ‘ free ’ for work under the given conditions.

Academic linguist Mark Liberman recommends avoiding the phrase entirely, noting that because of shifts in usage in both Latin and English over the centuries, the relationship of the literal expression to its intended meaning is unintelligible and therefore it is now " such a confusing way to say it that only a few pedants understand the phrase.

Foucault directs his analysis toward the " statement " ( énoncé ), which is the rules that render an expression ( that is, a phrase, a proposition, or a speech act ) discursively meaningful.

Speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin had coined the phrase " the Great Society ," and Johnson had used the expression occasionally before the Michigan speech, but had not emphasized it.

The use of the expression Zend-Avesta to refer to the Avesta in general is a misunderstanding of the phrase Zand-i-Avesta ( which literally means " interpretation of the Avesta ").

However, to indicate this must be done hesitantly, parliament insisted on a slightly different terminology: instead of krachtens de wet the phrase uit kracht van wet was used ; both mean " by force of law " or " pursuant to law "; but the second expression puts somewhat more emphasis on the force of the law and thus on the fact all delegation is ultimately derived from law.

It is difficult to say which of the above analyses most closely represents the way a listener interprets the expression, and it is possible that the phrase is analysed in different ways by different listeners, or even in different ways by the same listener at different times.

Because the authorities were required to read the proclamation that referred to the Riot Act before they could enforce it, the expression " to read the Riot Act " entered into common language as a phrase meaning " to reprimand severely ", with the added sense of a stern warning.

A typical small clause consists of a noun phrase and a predicative expression, e. g.

The expression on the right is a predication over the noun phrase immediately to its left.

It might be derived from the phrase the man most likely to, a boxing expression in common use on Tyneside ( in Geordie slang: " a likely lad ").

Hayek did not like the expression “ social market economy ”, but he noticed in 1976 that some of his friends in Germany had succeeded in implementing the sort of social order for which he was pleading while using that phrase.

The Tetragrammaton is often represented ( especially in older English versions of the Bible ) by the word ""; and the expression " Hallelujah " by the phrase " Praise ye the " ( Psalm 104: 35 KJV and footnote ).

to phrase i. e. divine expression ).

An indirectly self-referential sentence would replace the phrase " this sentence " with an expression that effectively still referred to the sentence, but did not use the pronoun " this.

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose.