" Philip Larkin in a letter to Kingsley Amis in 1948, wrote that " no one can ' stick words into us like pins '... like he can ", but followed that by stating that he " doesn't use his words to any advantage ".

In his 2000 book Mystics and Messiahs, Philip Jenkins discussed the term's usage, and likened it to " smear words " associated with other religions ; giving examples of Shaker, Methodist, and Mormon.

In his 2000 book Mystics and Messiahs, Philip Jenkins likens the term to " smear words such as Shaker, Methodist, Mormon ".

In 1931, John Philip Sousa published his opinion in favor, stating that " it is the spirit of the music that inspires " as much as it is Key's " soul-stirring " words.

Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, and James Tenney's setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with " a " on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e. g. " a / rose is a rose / is a rose is / a rose is a / rose.

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

In Philip Hazel's own words:

This was followed in 1601 by a songbook, A Booke of Ayres, with words by himself and music composed by himself and Philip Rosseter.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield records the last words heard from him: " God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter and He knows best what to do ".

The song was later provided with religious ( as opposed to patriotic ) words by Philip Doddridge, and in this form is a favorite of Sacred Harp singers.

* James Tenney made a skillful if short setting of " Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose " as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with an " a " on an upbeat rhythm and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e. g. " a / rose is a rose / is a rose is / a rose is a / rose.

:* Carol: " Angels from the Realms of Glory " – words by James Montgomery ; music, old French tune arranged by Philip S. Ledger

:* Carol: " A Spotless Rose is Blowing " – words, 15th century German, translated by C. Winkworth ; music by Philip S. Ledger

:"… if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders should come my way, I inquired about the words of the elders — that is, what according to the elders Andrew or Peter said, or Philip, or Thomas or James, or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord ’ s disciples, and whatever Aristion and the elder John, the Lord ’ s disciples, were saying.

" According to Geisel biographer Philip Nel, Geisel threatened to sue a pro-life group for using his words on their stationery.

In order to comply with a court ruling USA vs. Philip Morris, Philip Morris ( and all other cigarette companies ) is now prevented from using words such as " Lights ", " Ultra-Lights ", " Medium ", " Mild ", or any similar designation that yields a false impression that they are safer than regular full flavor cigarettes.

In the words of Philip Larkin, " No one familiar with the characteristic excitement of his solos, their lurid, snuffling, asthmatic voicelessness, notes leant on till they split, and sudden passionate intensities, could deny the uniqueness of his contribution to jazz.

Philip and Alexander, as conquerors of Greece, could have had Demosthenes killed-but they were not that vindictive, and did not punish anyone for mere words.

Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words: " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?

Melville Island's most likely first European discovery was probably made by the Portuguese, as Aborigines encountered by the explorer Phillip Parker King ( son of governor of New South Wales Philip Gidley King ) in 1818, were found to know some Portuguese words.

The hymn " Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep ", with words written in the 1830s by Emma Willard and tune by Joseph Philip Knight, was recorded several times around the start of the twentieth century, by the Original Bison City Quartet before 1894, the Standard Quartette in 1895, John W. Myers at about the same time, and Gus Reed in 1908.

That evening, Philip Dewinter opened his speech with the words " My Honour is truth " which was the official oath of the German SS-soldiers during WW2.

" The Stiff Arm of the Law " ( which became a regular feature on police misconduct ) featured a parody of a police report in which incriminating sections of a supposed account of an officer's real actions in a gay-bashing incident were crossed out and replaced with far more anodyne language, e. g. in the line " I was at Philip St Station in my homo hunting togs ", the words " homo hunting togs " were crossed out and replaced with the handwritten words " plain clothes ", " this little bastard " with " a youth ", and " I myself punched him several times " was amended to read " I was punched several times ", and so on.

Their formula is A is not not-A ; in other words it is impossible to predicate of a thing a quality which is its contradictory.

Similarly, Nostradamus's notorious ' 1999 ' prophecy at X. 72 ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ) describes no event that commentators have succeeding in identifying either before or since, other than by dint of twisting the words to fit whichever of the many contradictory happenings they are keen to claim as ' hits '.

In general, oxymora can be divided into expressions that were deliberately crafted to be contradictory and those phrases that inadvertently or incidentally contain a contradiction, often as a result of a punning use of one or both words.

* antiphrasis: Word or words used contradictory to their usual meaning, often with irony

Norris describes it as a language which " like poetry, uses words and images which can mean several, often contradictory, things at once " An early review of the book argued that Joyce was attempting " to employ language as a new medium, breaking down all grammatical usages, all time space values, all ordinary conceptions of context the theme is the language and the language the theme, and a language where every association of sound and free association is exploited.

Two of the more specific features associated with this text are ( 1 ) a preference for reason over authority in matters of science and nature ( in other words, seeking solutions via reason and logic rather than through faith ) and ( 2 ) the use of the literary device of invoking Arab teachings when presenting very controversial topics ( i. e. that brute animals may possess knowledge and souls ) Curiously, Adelard didn't think that the use of reason to seek knowledge was in anyway contradictory with Christian faith in God.

But an investigation of dependent lines which are often incommensurable forces us to adopt the contradictory fiction of partially overlapping, i. e. divisible points, or in other words, the conception of Continuity.

Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings.

In contrast to redundancy, an oxymoron results when two seemingly contradictory words are adjoined.

Samuel Goldwyn was also known for malapropisms, paradoxes, and other speech errors called ' Goldwynisms ' (" A humorous statement or phrase resulting from the use of incongruous or contradictory words, situations, idioms, etc.

The controversy over whether the Macedonians were originally Greek or not is caused mainly by contradictory ancient accounts, but also due to the peculiar features of a few Macedonians words, though most words are consistent with Greek ( see Ancient Macedonian language ).

A variety of competing and contradictory theses exist, including: that the Soviet leadership actively sought another great war in Europe to further weaken the capitalist nations ; that the USSR pursued a purely defensive policy ; or that the USSR tried to avoid becoming entangled in a war, both because Soviet leaders did not feel that they had the military capabilities to conduct strategic operations at that time, and to avoid, in paraphrasing Stalin's words to the 18th Party Congress on March 10, 1939, " pulling other nation's ( the UK and France's ) chestnuts out of the fire.

However, Haywood's audience consisted of both men and women, and Lady Trusty's bridal admonitions, the most conservative and patriarchal words of advice in the novel, are contradictory and impossible for any woman to execute completely ” ( Stuart ).

Very frequently found today, and often giving rise to complex explanations ( see below, Puns, Jokes and Corruptions ) The use of pairs of words in the name of an inn or tavern was rare before the mid-17th century, but by 1708 had become frequent enough for a pamphlet to complain of ' the variety and contradictory language of the signs ', citing absurdities such as ' Bull and Mouth ', ' Whale and Cow ', and ' Shovel and Boot '.

Wang insisted that the words of previous sages should be treated critically, and that they were often contradictory or inconsistent.

Position Statement Summary: In the context of two contradictory movements, one that emphasizes a liberal education and a second that works to compress curricula and learning into narrow indicators of teacher accountability and student achievement, and in response to a call for writing instruction to move outward from its traditional emphasis on academic contexts, this statement calls into action all those who share CCCC vision of a future in which an expansive writing curriculum, backed by ample resources, attends unyieldingly to the difficult work of helping students use good words, images, and other appropriate means, well composed, to build a better world.

In his own words, he is able " to maintain with perfect unenthusiasm contradictory, or at least polarized, opinions at once on a given subject ".

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

Possible candidates for foundational beliefs are thought to include perceptual and memory beliefs, especially reports of one's own subjective experience ; beliefs about the meanings of sentences or words ; and a priori intuitions.

Other associated words possess similar meanings including: khabar ( news, information ) often refers to reports about Muhammad, but sometimes refers to traditions about his companions and their successors from the following generation ; conversely, athar ( trace, vestige ) usually refers to traditions about the companions and successors, though sometimes connotes traditions about Muhammad.

Contemporary American anarchist Hakim Bey reports that " Steven Pearl Andrews ... was not a fourierist ( see Charles Fourier ), but he lived through the brief craze for phalansteries in America & adopted a lot of fourierist principles & practices ... a maker of worlds out of words.

Suetonius reports that others have said Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "" ( transliterated as " Kai su, teknon?

The Washington Times reports Metzger's words of praise: " They speak out against the Jews and the oppressors in Washington ....

It reports that useful phonics strategies include teaching children the sounds of letters in isolation and in words, and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of words.

As the war progressed, he moved his attack to its conduct by the generals, who, he said ( basing his words on reports by William Burdett-Coutts in The Times ), were not providing for the sick or wounded soldiers and were starving Boer women and children in concentration camps.

However, Suetonius reports his last words, which he spoke in Greek, as " καί σύ τέκνον " (" Kai su, teknon?

In the above mentioned journal entry to The American Psychologist, Dr. Don Justesen reports that Sharp and Grove were readily able to hear, identify, and distinguish among the single-syllable words for digits between 1 and 10.

Plutarch also reports the last words of Brutus, quoted by a Greek tragedy " O wretched Virtue, thou wert but a name, and yet I worshipped thee as real indeed ; but now, it seems, thou were but fortune's slave.

Despite reports that dirty words can be read on the characters ' lips, Swanson claims the censors went over everything with a fine-tooth comb.

On the same telethon, during Robinson's explanation, Loretta Long uttered the words " Bronx daycare ", a reference to a news event on New York TV station WNBC-TV in which there were reports of alleged sexual abuse at a Bronx daycare center.

This book and the ones that follow also contain reports written specifically by Dorothy Ann that define new vocabulary words as they crop up in the story.

Alan always ends his reports with the words " I'm Alan Partridge, join me ", accompanied by Alan staring into the camera.

Unlike these tabloid-like newspapers, the HKEJ reports its news mainly by words, with few graphics.

Chauchetière reports her final words were, " I will love you in heaven.

According to reports at the time, his last words were, " My last moments are sweetened by the reflection that for every man you murder this day Mosby will take a tenfold vengeance.

According to press reports, MacDonald's last words to Raymond while he massaged her feet were " I love you ".

Of course-we will keep You updated about the progress of recordings with words and video reports.

According to press reports, after exchanging bitter words on the set, Braeden showed up at Bergman's dressing room door to further discuss the matter and violence ensued.

Use is normally frowned upon in mass media such as news reports or films, but they occur regularly in everyday conversation, sometimes representing upwards of 20 % of " words " in conversation.

But much to his chagrin, Hynek's qualifications were largely overlooked, and the words " swamp gas " were repeated ad infinitum in relation to UFO reports.