But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

And although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

It is a phrase as arresting as a magician's gesture, with a piquant turn of harmony giving an effect of strangeness.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.

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.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

" 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.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

This negative reputation survives today in the English language, in terms like " gin mills " or the American phrase " gin joints " to describe disreputable bars or " gin-soaked " to refer to drunks, and in the phrase " mother's ruin ", a common British name for gin.

US civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid the negative connotations found in other words such as " informers " and " snitches ".

In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

The word gang often carries a negative connotation ; however, within a gang which defines itself in opposition to mainstream norms, members may adopt the phrase as a statement of identity or defiance.

In Italian a second negative particle usually turns the phrase into a positive one, but with a different meaning.

In a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas Keats, on December 21, 1817, Keats used the phrase negative capability for the first and only time.

In some South Slavic vernaculars, there exists the phrase do zla boga ( meaning " to evil god ," or perhaps " to evil God "), used as an attribute to express something which is exceedingly negative.

Often, the phrase " to discipline " carries a negative connotation.

Butterfield's book on the ' Whig interpretation ' marked the emergence of a negative concept in historiography under a convenient phrase, but was not isolated.

Although humorous, the phrase usually has negative connotations.

The concept and phrase " negative entropy " were introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1944 popular-science book What is Life?

Negation is expressed by putting a negative particle before the verb, adjective or noun phrase.

The word " cul-de-sac " and its variants, " dead end " and " no exit ", have inspired metaphorical uses in literature and in culture, often with the result that a word or phrase seeming to have a negative connotation is replaced in street signs.

This phrase became a Chinese idiom le bu si shu ( 樂不思蜀 ; literally meaning " too joyful to think about home ", but often with a negative implication ).

The phrase has taken on a negative aspect.

The phrase " negative Babinski sign " is a misnomer for a " flexor plantar response.

The phrase was used sparingly at the end of World War II when describing the plans for the United Nations and Bretton Woods system, in part because of the negative association to the failed League of Nations the phrase would have brought.

The phrase is believed by most Puerto Ricans to have a negative connotation against moroveños, while, in reality, it means the opposite.

The term urban sprawl generally has negative connotations due to the health, environmental and cultural issues associated with the phrase.

This way, when someone searched the scam phrase, they'd have to dig deep into the SERPs to find anything negative about the brand.

The phrase in this usage can carry negative connotations.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.

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The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

This was advocated by Auguste Comte, who coined the term " altruism ," and whose ethics can be summed up in the phrase: Live for others.

In linguistics, some authors use the term phrase structure grammar to refer to context-free grammars, whereby phrase structure grammars are distinct from dependency grammars.

" However, the meaning of this term is not certain as, in late seventeenth-century usage, the term negro would have been normally used, and the phrase " black Man " could mean either dark-skinned or black-haired.

A contemporary use of the term in English is in the phrase male chauvinism.

The phrase Cogito ergo sum is not used in Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy but the term " the cogito " is ( often confusingly ) used to refer to an argument from it.

A definition is a passage that explains the meaning of a term ( a word, phrase, or other set of symbols ), or a type of thing.

The origin of the divergence of the term " extreme sports " from " sports " may date to the 1950s in the appearance of a phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway.

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

" Fundamentalism " is sometimes used as a pejorative term, particularly when combined with other epithets ( as in the phrase " right-wing fundamentalists ").

However, for his part, Hayek found this term " singularly unattractive " and offered the term " Old Whig " ( a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke ) instead.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

The term is used as a shortened form of the phrase 変態性欲 ( hentai seiyoku ) meaning " sexual perversion ".

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.