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.

Translations of this phrase differ, and it is quite uncertain whether Bede intended to say that he was cured of a speech problem, or merely that he was inspired by the saint's works.

BDSM is currently frequently used as a catch-all phrase to includes a wide range of activities, forms of interpersonal relationships, and distinct subcultures which may or may not fit well into the original three intended categories.

Garbage in, garbage out ( abbreviated to GIGO, possibly intended to parallel the phrase first-in, first-out ) is a phrase in the field of computer science or information and communication technology.

An armorial motto is a phrase or collection of words intended to describe the motivation or intention of the armigerous person or corporation.

The warning printed on most cards intended for circulation as documents ( checks, for example ), " Do not fold, spindle or mutilate ," became a catch phrase for the post-World War II era.

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.

The term " reduced " in that phrase was intended to describe the fact that the amount of work any single instruction accomplishes is reduced — at most a single data memory cycle — compared to the " complex instructions " of CISC CPUs that may require dozens of data memory cycles in order to execute a single instruction.

In 1987, the phrase " intelligent design " replaced " creation science " in drafts of a book, Of Pandas and People that was intended for secondary-school students.

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.

When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, " I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you " in an American television advertisement, it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.

This phrase, intended to evoke the ' primitive throwback ' qualities of anthropological discoveries such as Piltdown Man and Swanscombe Man, was part of a British political tradition of referring to political trends by suffixing ' man '.

The Bible uses the term ships of Tarshish to denote large ships intended for large voyages whatever their destination ; some Bible translations, including the NIV, go as far as to translate the phrase ship ( s ) of Tarshish as " trading ship ( s )," and Jonah's fleeing to Tarshish may need to be taken as " a place very far away " rather than a precise geographical term.

# The word or phrase means something different from the word the speaker or writer intended to use.

# The word or phrase sounds similar to what was intended.

Whereas the undiscovered country referred to in Hamlet ( and its intended meaning in The Wrath of Khan ) refers to death, Star Trek VIs use of the phrase refers to a future where Klingons and humans coexist in peace.

Bart's use of the phrase " Eat my shorts " was intended to reflect his adoption of catchphrases he had heard on TV ; the creative team had told Vitti that he should not come up with original taglines for the character.

The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet motherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great moral booster.

In the United States, civil religion is often invoked under the name of " Judeo-Christian tradition ", a phrase originally intended to be maximally inclusive of the several monotheisms practiced in the United States, assuming that these faiths all worship the same God and share the same values.

Here the participial phrase sitting on the step may be intended to modify her ( meaning that the painting's subject was sitting on the step ), or it may be intended to modify the verb phrase painted her or the whole clause he painted her ( or just he ), meaning in effect that it was the painter who was sitting on the step.

# Any peculiarity in a phrase justifies the assumption that some special meaning is intended: e. g., where μία (" one ") is used instead of πρώτη (" first "; Gen. i. 5 ), etc.

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.

Haeckel advanced a version of the earlier " recapitulation theory ", previously set out by Étienne Serres in the 1820s and supported by followers of Geoffroy including Robert Edmond Grant, which proposed a link between ontogeny ( development of form ) and phylogeny ( evolutionary descent ), summed up by Haeckel in the phrase " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

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.

A common misunderstanding of the phrase " reduced instruction set computer " is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.

In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the end of the match with the well-known phrase " Game, set, match " followed by the winning person's or team's name.

Cecil Beaton, noting the frequent homosexual excesses, coined the phrase, " the Ivor / Noel naughty set ".

The phrase " genetic code " has also been adapted — the " epigenetic code " has been used to describe the set of epigenetic features that create different phenotypes in different cells.

" Having the phrase used to recover from a mistake as the title of the show set the tone for the series as an irreverent and loosely-produced comedy show.

In TGG, Deep structures were generated by a set of phrase structure rules.

As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these " world problems " ( Nancy's phrase ).... Kennedy replied that he expected the " Jew media " in the United States to become a problem, that " Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles " were already making noises contrived to " set a match to the fuse of the world.

( The phrase " consensus reality " may be used more loosely to refer to any generally accepted set of beliefs.

A phrase is deemed to be a word or a combination of words that appears in a set syntactic position, for instance in subject position or object position.

: The phrase a great singer, set off by commas, is both an appositive and a parenthesis.

The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.

Instead of phrase structure rules ATNs used an equivalent set of finite state automata that were called recursively.

For example, a phrase " we have defined a ring structure ( a structure of ring ) on the set " means that we have defined ring operations on the set.

The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity and genitalia, and ( depending on the listener / reader ) sometimes also certain terms relating to Hell and / or damnation when used outside their original religious context ( s ), and / or slurs.

Scientists broadcast the phrase to outer space, but are mystified by the response: a seemingly meaningless series of numbers repeated over and over, until Laughlin recognizes it as a set of geographical coordinates pointing to Devils Tower near Moorcroft, Wyoming.

The phrase " aeromedical evacuation " or AEROVAC is also used to refer to transportation of medical cases from one medical facility to another with a higher level of care, a particular skill set or in the case of combat to a safer environment, with the capability for sophisticated en route care ( ventilators, etc .).

The phrase is now excluded from reruns, VHS releases and the five-DVD set The Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition.

The phrase " Group Dynamics " contains two words-( i ) Group-a social unit of two or more individuals who have in common a set of believes and values, follow the same norms and works for an establishable aim common.

Intrigued by the often-heard phrase " life as we know it ", Anderson wanted to set the aliens of his new series apart from the conventional extraterrestrials of 1960s television and cinema.

The poet Sylvia Plath was known to admire McCullers ' work, and the unusual phrase " silver and exact ", used by McCullers to describe a set of train tracks in the novel, is the first line of Plath's poem " Mirror ".