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.

* In the Season 13 episode of the series Law & Order entitled " Chosen ," defense lawyer Randy Dworkin ( played by Peter Jacobson ) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, " Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk ..."

* In the Season 13 episode of the series Law & Order entitled " Chosen ", defense lawyer Randy Dworkin ( played by Peter Jacobson ) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, " Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk ..."

* In the Season 13 episode, " Chosen ," of the series Law & Order, a defense lawyer Randy Dworkin ( played by Peter Jacobson ) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, " Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk ..."

Others writing on Faulkner have found the phrase `` traditional moralist '' either inadequate or misleading.

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.

Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.

He turned back to the screens, the crucial, conclusive phrase on his lips.

Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.

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

The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

It is possible that he suffered a speech impediment of some kind, but this depends on a phrase in the introduction to his verse life of Saint Cuthbert.

" This is a variation on the phrase " I wouldn't touch that with a length pole.

In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase " Impeach Nixon ".

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

A clitic syntactically functions above the word level, on the phrase or clause level, and attaches only phonetically to the first, last, or only word in the phrase or clause, whichever part of speech the word belongs to.

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

Currently on the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, the phrase " a global cabal of Jews " is referenced from time to time, as a spoof on antisemitic conspiracy theories.

By the 18th century, map-makers started to give credit to the original engraver by printing the phrase " After original cartographer " on the work.

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.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967.

Williams was the first to use the phrase " wall of separation " to describe the relationship of the church and state.

For example, in Germany the totality of the complex German Democratic Republic border regime is commonly referred to with the short phrase " Mauer und Stacheldraht " ( that is, " wall and barbed wire "), and Amnesty International has a barbed wire in their symbol.

" If only I were a fly on the wall ..." is a phrase used when one wishes they could have observed a scene in an omniscient point of view.

RCA raised objections to the phrase " up against the wall, motherfucker " in the lyrics of Kantner's " We Can Be Together ," but the group managed to prevent it from being censored on the album, pointing out that RCA had already allowed the offending word to be included on the cast album of the rock musical Hair.

The phrase " breaking the proscenium " refers to when a performer addresses the audience directly as part of the dramatic production ( is also known as breaking the fourth wall ).

The phrase can also refer to when a member of the cast or crew walks onto the stage or into the house when there is an audience inside, also breaking the fourth wall.

Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle — a bald-headed man ( possibly with a few hairs ) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall — became associated with GIs in the 1940s.

If you say the magic phrase written on the wall of that room ( one word at a time ), " Fee Fie Foe Foo ", the eggs will be moved back to the Giant room, wherever they are and wherever you are.

Reed disliked the phrase " wall of separation between church and state ," and his dissent contains his famous dictum about the phrase: " A rule of law should not be drawn from a figure of speech.

McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U. S. 203 ( 1948 ) ( commenting on the phrase " wall of separation between church and state ")

The title is an allusion to the phrase spoken by the Witch in the fairy tale " Snow White and the Seven Dwarves " by the Brothers Grimm --" Mirror, mirror on the wall / Who in the land is fairest of all?

Rome ( TV Series ) character Ciarán Hinds uses the phrase in episode 5 of the first season " The ram has touched the wall " in the scene where he as Caesar refuses a truce with Pompei Magnus.

The phrase a " hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world " was first used by Baptist theologian Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island.

" Separation of church and state " ( sometimes " wall of separation between church and state ") is a phrase used by Thomas Jefferson ( in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists ) and others expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The famous " tear down this wall " phrase was intended as the logical conclusion of the President's proposals.

In this version, " wall " is replaced with " rail ", and the phrase " chopped his tail off " is changed to " chopped off his tail ".

" Taking their name from a phrase graffitied onto the wall of the UW student newspaper office, the duo played house parties and bars as they were until the following year, when they invited Evan Sult to be their drummer.

The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet ( defensive wall ) rather than through an opening ( embrasure ).