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.

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

It was often referred to as " the material of 1000 uses ", a phrase originated by Baekeland himself.

In his online column, Best of The Web Today, James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal often uses the phrase " Homer Nods " as the title of a retraction or correction.

This phrase is frequently used when discussing the value of an electric current, especially in older texts ; modern practice often shortens this to simply current but current intensity is still used in many recent textbooks.

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.

Among these choices, Gaussian units are the most common today, and in fact the phrase " CGS units " is often used to refer specifically to CGS-Gaussian units.

In Modern English, an indirect object is often expressed with a prepositional phrase of " to " or " for ".

The Latin motto is literally translated as " The voice of one crying in the wilderness ", but is more often rendered as " A voice crying in the wilderness ", which attempts to translate the synecdoche of the phrase.

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.

" Financial capital " often refers to his or her net worth tied up in the business ( assets minus liabilities ) but the phrase often includes money borrowed from others.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

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.

Sociologist, author, and financial journalist Alfred W. Jones is credited with coining the phrase " hedged fund ", in contrast to prior nomenclatures, and is often erroneously credited with creating the first hedge fund structure in 1949.

The phrase and the legend are quoted very often in fiction and popular culture in the United States.

In the sparse style, a full chord is often played only at the beginning of a melodic phrase.

It has often been assumed that, in England, jumping over the broom ( or sometimes walking over a broom ), always indicated an irregular or non-church union ( as in the expressions " Married over the besom ", " living over the brush "), but there are examples of the phrase being used in the context of legal weddings, both religious and civil.

While the phrase free love is often associated with promiscuity in the popular imagination, especially in reference to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, historically the free-love movement has not advocated multiple sexual partners or short-term sexual relationships.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who is often considered the father of modern anarchism, coined the phrase " Property is theft " to describe part of his view on the complex nature of ownership in relation to freedom.

In the late-2000s recession, the phrase is often used when discussing the high level of youth unemployment.

Philosopher and encyclopedist Mortimer Adler includes all such second-order questions about various fields of study, which are often found under various branches of philosophy beginning with the phrase " philosophy of ....", in his taxonomy.

Christianity often interprets the phrase as a reference to ( KJV ):

A shallow approach which simply guessed at the sense of the ambiguous English phrase that Piron mentions ( based, perhaps, on which kind of prisoner-of-war camp is more often mentioned in a given corpus ) would have a reasonable chance of guessing wrong fairly often.

The phrase " what does it matter " or such variants is often spoken by several characters in response to events ; the significance of some of these events suggests a subscription to nihilism by said characters as a type of coping strategy.