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phrase and is
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 focus
Many phrasal categories are assumed that do not correspond directly to a specific part of speech, e. g. agreement phrase ( AgrP ), focus phrase ( FP ), inflection phrase ( IP ), tense phrase ( TP ), etc.
Supporters of the " Palestinian viewpoint " focus on the phrase in the resolution's preamble emphasizing the " inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war ", and note that the French version called for withdrawal from " des territoires occupés "-" the territories occupied ".
They focus on the operative phrase calling for " secure and recognized boundaries " and note that the resolution calls for a withdrawal " from territories " rather than " from the territories " or " from all territories ," as the Arabs and others proposed ; the latter two terms were rejected from the final draft of Resolution 242.
Some people, though, use the phrase ' Blended Learning ' to refer to learning taking place while the focus is on other activities.
The use of the phrase " terminus technicus " ( Latin " technical term ") in linguistics and literature is latently semi-ironic, in that rendering the easily understandable English " technical term " in Latin with the more difficult, and to many readers exclusive, Latin equivalent " terminus technicus " itself illustrates how technical jargon and foreign loanwords narrow the semantic focus of a term.
The phrase lower Manhattan may apply to any of these definitions: the broader ones often if the speaker is discussing the area in relation to the rest of the city ; more restrictive ones, again, if the focus is on business matters or on the early colonial and post-colonial history of the island.
" The Atlas Society also reviewed the book, writing " Despite its occasional lack of focus, Restoring the Lost Constitution is a succinct and accurate distillation of libertarian constitutional theory — and it convincingly shows that this phrase is largely redundant.
Christian missions strategist Luis Bush pinpointed the need for a major focus of evangelism in the " 10 / 40 Window ", a phrase he coined in his presentation at the missionary conference Lausanne 1989 in Manila.
The last phrase became the focus of all the appeals to follow.
The term science by press conference is a phrase referring to scientists who put an unusual focus on publicizing results of research in the media.
Images of light and brightness associated with these goddesses come to focus in the phrase " all things that are, are lights " quoted from John Scotus Eriugena.
The focus of Canto CI is around the Greek phrase kalon kagathon (" the beautiful and good "), which calls to mind Plotinus ' attitude to the world of things and the more general Greek belief in the moral aspect of beauty.
Carville's original phrase was meant for the internal audience of Clinton's campaign workers as one of the three messages to focus on, the other two messages being " Change vs. more of the same " and " Don't forget health care.
In ( 3 ), the pitch accent is placed on dog but the entire noun phrase a grey dog is under focus.
* Catholics, who were mostly nationalists, who used the phrase as a " focus of resentment " and
While the phrase depth of focus was historically used, and is sometimes still used, to mean depth of field ( DOF ), in modern times it is more often reserved for the image-side depth.
* When Giles interrupts a conversation about the Prom to say they ought to focus on the mayor's Ascension, Buffy says, " Giles, we get it, miles to go before we sleep ," a phrase from the famous Robert Frost poem " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ".
" Because of its focus on skill acquisition in the context of risk, the phrase ' positive youth development ' most often refers to programs focused on children and, more often, adolescents, rather than infants or preschool children.

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