What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

In mathematics, the phrase " almost all " has a number of specialised uses.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

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

The phrase " in anger he turned back to his own " probably indicates that this annal is drawn from saga material, as perhaps are all of the early Wessex annals.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

The phrase became a fundamental element of Western philosophy, as it was perceived to form a foundation for all knowledge.

The first mention of a diaspora created as a result of exile is found in the Septuagint in the phrase " esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs " translated to mean " thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth ".

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

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.

* Thompson's poem is also the source of the phrase, " with all deliberate speed ," used by the Supreme Court in Brown II, the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.

Now, however, the Jewish conspiracy is intended to " shake down " ( his favorite phrase ) such innocent entities as Swiss banks, German corporations and East European owners of looted Jewish property, all in order to consolidate Jewish power and influence without giving the real survivors of the genocide anything but empty rhetoric.

Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English ( ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints ), All-Hallows-Even is itself not seen until 1556.

The phrase classical liberalism is also sometimes used to refer to all forms of liberalism before the 20th century.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

A couple jumping the broom. Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies in different cultural traditions, found in " many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungary and Gypsy culture ", all of which " include brooms at wedding rituals.

A rana was described as an infidel, but only because he was fighting against the Mughals, and infidel was used as an everyday phrase to describe all non-Muslims anyway.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to " Unified Science "; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a " universal slang " in which all scientific propositions can be expressed.

Philosopher and encyclopedist Mortimer Adler includes all such second-order questions about various fields of study, which are often found under various branches of philosophy beginning with the phrase " philosophy of ....", in his taxonomy.

However, the phrase " the men " breaks the meter of the line, and later versions simply say " they ".

The key phrase " at the suggestion of the principal men among us " reads instead " Pilate condemned him to be crucified ".

A 1996 movie titled The Pompatus of Love starring Jon Cryer featured four men discussing a number of assorted topics, including attempts to determine the meaning of the phrase.

Muslim men will clasp both hands, prayer-like and palm together at the chest and utter the correct Islamic slametan ( greeting ) phrase, which may be followed by cheek to cheek contact, quick hug or the loose handshake.

" The women added the phrase " and women " to make "... all men and women are created equal ..." A list of grievances was composed to form the second part of the Declaration.

Fag hag is a gay slang phrase referring to a woman who either associates mostly or exclusively with gay and bisexual men, or has gay and bisexual men as close friends.

In thirty two cases the phrase appears in intermediate plural form " sons of men ", i. e. human beings.

In thirty two cases the phrase appears in intermediate plural form " sons of men ", i. e. human beings.

Other commentators have suggested that truly generic uses of the word " man " would be perceived as " false, funny, or insulting ", citing as an example the phrase " Some men are female.

The phrase almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls ; similar events for men or boys are called by other names and are more likely to be bodybuilding contests.

This response was translated by journalists to become the famous phrase " Caister men never turn back ".

He published a pamphlet containing the phrase: " All men are by nature equally free and independent ", which Jefferson incorporated essentially intact into the Declaration of Independence.

Every cover features the same image of a tree ( held to represent that " all is life "), and on the back the phrase: " time is the invention of men incapable of love ".

*" After you, Claude – no, After you Cecil " – Moving men spoken by Jack Train and Horace Percival This phrase became used by RAF pilots as they queued for attack.

Although it was acknowledged that both women and men possessed cai, the phrase nuren wucai bian shi de 女人無才便是德 ( for women, lack of literary talent is a virtue summarizes the dominant sentiment that the literary field was traditionally a domain for men.

The police found the victims ' " oddly marred " bodies being used in a ritual that centered around the statuette: almost 100 men — all of a " very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type " — were " braying, bellowing, and writhing " and repeatedly chanting the phrase, " Ph ' nglui mglw ' nafh Cthulhu R ' lyeh wgah ' nagl fhtagn ".

Widening further, it became a politeness for all men, as in the phrase Ladies and Gentlemen ,... and this was then used ( often with the abbreviation Gents ) to indicate where men could find a lavatory without the need to indicate precisely what was being described.

The phrase " dead white males " ( or " dead white men ," " dead white guys " etc.

Eriksson takes action by confronting Meserve and his men, and using a shovel, strikes Clarke across the face, scaring the rest of the men and informing Meserve that he " told everyone and they don't care ", Meserve calls him " dinky dow " ( an Americanized Vietnamese phrase derived from the Vietnamese phrase " điên cái đầu " meaning crazy head ) before Eriksson exits the tent.