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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.

phrase and now
What Chomsky called a phrase structure grammar is also known now as a constituency grammar, whereby constituency grammars stand in contrast to dependency grammars.
Although any music which uses computers in its composition or realisation is computer-generated to some extent, the use of computers is now so widespread ( in the editing of pop songs, for instance ) that the phrase computer-generated music is generally used to mean a kind of music which could not have been created without the use of computers.
The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools.
We will now consider the purportedly “ positive argument ” for design encompassed in the phrase used numerous times by Professors Behe and Minnich throughout their expert testimony, which is the “ purposeful arrangement of parts .” Professor Behe summarized the argument as follows: We infer design when we see parts that appear to be arranged for a purpose.
The phrase also occurs a few times in the Vulgate translation of the Bible, notably in when Peter asks Jesus the same question, to which he responds, " Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me.
* Generalized phrase structure grammar ( GPSG ; now largely out of date )
Formerly, when a word or phrase in quotation marks came at the end of a phrase or clause that ended with a semicolon, the semicolon would be put before the trailing quotation mark ; now, however, the magazine follows the more commonly observed style and puts the semicolon after the second quotation mark.
At the beginning of the century, there was a phrase " database mining "™, trademarked by HNC, a San Diego-based company ( now merged into FICO ), to pitch their Data Mining Workstation ; researchers consequently turned to " data mining ".
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.
However, there is no evidence to support that she ever uttered this phrase, and it is now generally regarded as a " journalistic cliché ".
Kenneth Wolstenholme DFC & Bar ( 17 July 1920 – 25 March 2002 ) was the football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s, most notable for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup which included the famous phrase " some people are on the pitch ... they think it's all over .... it is now!
The phrase may have its origins as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called " The Army Goes Rolling Along ", which likely extended into tank usage.
The name Gestuno has fallen out of use, and the phrase " International Sign " is now more commonly used in English to identify this sign variety.
But service under Warwick ( by now the Duke of Northumberland ) carried some risk, and decades later in his diary, Cecil recorded his release in the phrase " ex misero aulico factus liber et mei juris " (" I was freed from this miserable court ").
Psychosomatic medicine is not to be confused with the demotic and scientifically incorrect use of the phrase " psychosomatic illness " to apply to illnesses that are now called somatoform disorders.
The aim in " Scoop and Run " treatment is generally to transport the patient within ten minutes of arrival, hence the birth of the phrase, " the platinum ten minutes " ( in addition to the " golden hour "), now commonly used in EMT training programs.
Many people mostly people between 11-18 have been using the phrase " Come at me bro " and " Cool story " which became famous as a Meme many years ago however now it seems it is the answer to every insult and a reply to every story.
* Spin occurred when UK government press officer Jo Moore used the phrase It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury in an email sent on September 11, 2001, following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
" Recognizing the voice, Mason now knows who he has to go after to get his revenge and even mocks Trent's phrase by saying " I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent.
As the global workplace expands, this once regional phrase is now being used outside the area in which it originated.
The phrase " growed like Topsy " ( later " grew like Topsy "; now somewhat archaic ) passed into the English language, originally with the specific meaning of unplanned growth, later sometimes just meaning enormous growth.
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.

phrase and so
Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase “ end of eternity ”, so the question arises whether it should ever be so.
Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.
There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.
The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".
The phrase was to Ludendorff's liking, and he let it be known among the general staff that this was the ' official ' version, and so it was disseminated throughout German society.
* more than somewhat ( or " no little, and quite some "); this phrase was so typical that it was used as the title of one of his short story collections
DeWitt's phrase " many-worlds " has become so much more popular than Everett's " Universal Wavefunction " or Everett-Wheeler's " Relative State Formulation " that many forget that this is only a difference of terminology ; the content of both of Everett's papers and DeWitt's popular article is the same.
Much as in a sunset, the atmosphere tends to more strongly scatter light with shorter wavelengths, so the illumination of the Moon by refracted light has a red hue, thus the phrase ' Blood Moon ' is often found in descriptions of such lunar events as far back as eclipses are recorded.
The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).
Indeed many descriptions of Hobart have used the phrase " nestled amidst the foothills ", so undulating is the landscape.
In Hebrew, the word Shabbat () can also mean "( Talmudic ) week ", so that in ritual liturgy a phrase like " Yom Reviʻi bəShabbat " means " the fourth day in the week ".
Nonetheless, modern theories typically do not consider the to-infinitive to be a distinct constituent, instead taking the particle to for operating on an entire verb phrase ; so, to buy a car is parsed as < nowiki > to
More recently, as the phenomenon has become so well known, the phrase is sometimes used in ordinary examples ( without obfuscation ).
The software analyzing sentences was also self-learning, so one phrase used metaphorically to describe something should not be used in the same context again.
The Latin phrase falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus which, roughly translated, means " false in one thing, false in everything ", is fallacious in so far as someone found to be wrong about one thing, is presumed to be wrong about some other thing entirely.
The group dropped the ' a ' in lead at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the phrase would not pronounce it " leed ".
In a similar example, with the phrase " He had a seven-figure income ", the order of magnitude is the number of figures minus one, so it is very easily determined without a calculator to be 6.
As well as translating " Et cum spiritu tuo " as " And with your spirit ", which some scholars suggest refers to the gift of the spirit the priest received at ordination, in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed " consubstantial with the Father " was used as a translation of " consubstantialem Patri " ( in Greek " ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί "), instead of " of one Being with the Father " ( or, in the United States only, " one in Being with the Father "), and the phrase, formerly translated as " It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven ," was translated literally as " which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins " ( see Pro multis ).
Maciej Rataj emphatically paid tribute to this with the phrase: " There is Poland there, and so is the Sejm ".
The Aramaic Targum Onkelos leaves the phrase untranslated and is so quoted in the Talmud ( B.

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