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.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Syntactic ambiguity arises when a phrase can be parsed in only one way.

Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".

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 .”

It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.

The only mention of the phrase in the 39 Articles of the Church of England is in article XV, which is headed " Of Christ alone without Sin ".

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

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.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

While the abbreviation " YOLD " isn't used in the Principia, and the phrase " Year of Our Lady of Discord " is only mentioned once, it is a Discordian tradition to use that designation.

But because he is not God, but only a graven image of God, his self-expression must deal with limits ; properly with limits that are strict and even small .” Chesterton summed up his distributist views in the phrase " Three acres and a cow ".

A registered naturopathic doctor may only use the title “ doctor ” in written format if she or he also uses the phrase, " naturopathic doctor " immediately following his or her name.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that the person is ( 1 ) defined only insofar as he or she acts and ( 2 ) that he or she is responsible for his or her actions.

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.

The phrase " feudal society " as defined by Marc Bloch expands on the definition proposed by Ganshof and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church.

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 ".

In the most common case concord system, only the final word ( the noun ) in a phrase is marked for case.

But instead of this too many of the younger Germans simply make use of the phrase historical materialism ( and everything can be turned into a phrase ) only in order to get their own relatively scanty historical knowledge — for economic history is still in its swaddling clothes!

Another theory occasionally encountered is a derivation from the phrase thog mi an èigh / eugh () " I raised the cry ", which in pronunciation bears a certain resemblance to Hogmanay, as part of the rhymes traditionally recited at New Year but it is unclear if this is simply a case of folk etymology.

The phrase or acronym is also occasionally used ( without code ) for a signature.

This same phrase is still used, occasionally, by ( broadly understood ) analytic philosophers in supporting or criticizing philosophical positions.

In English the word peace is occasionally used as a farewell, especially for the dead, as in the phrase ' Rest In Peace ' RIP.

" The offense occasionally was added after this phrase, for example, " Book ' em, murder one.

Speechwriter Richard N. Goodwin had coined the phrase " the Great Society ," and Johnson had used the expression occasionally before the Michigan speech, but had not emphasized it.

The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary word, or occasionally the digraph and the cryptonym combine to form a dictionary word ( e. g. AEROPLANE ) or can be read out as a simple phrase ( e. g. WIBOTHER, read as " Why bother !").

In addition, Mark occasionally uses an unusual word or phrase where Matthew uses a common word.

* Feathers's dialogue was occasionally inspired by the character of " Slim " ( Lauren Bacall ) in the 1944 " To Have and Have Not ", as when, after the first kiss, she says: "... it's better when two people do it ," recalling the phrase " it's even better when you help ;" and again later when she says, " I'm hard to get-you're going to have to say you want me ," recalling Slim's " I'm hard to get, Steve-all you have to do is ask me.

However, there are longer tunes ( a storpolska or big polska has three or occasionally even four phrases ) and there exist many tunes with odd numbers of measures per phrase and phrases that vary in length between parts.

These were part of what was known as “ Fred Karno's Army ”, a phrase still occasionally used in the UK to refer to a chaotic group or organisation.

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton made many political and non-political speeches in the neighbourhood, and occasionally made reference to the above phrase.

The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s, and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains None of these remained a widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall.

The term Ostalgie ( along with the phrase Soviet chic ) is also occasionally used to refer to nostalgia for life under the socialist system in other former communist countries of Eastern Europe, most notably Poland and the Soviet Union.

The terms themselves are occasionally referred to as " RAP phrases " (" redundant acronym phrase phrases ").

The phrase is occasionally used more generally for any patent used in patent ambush.

The phrase is reflected in the traditions of the Zürich Grasshoppers Rugby Club, whose mascot is a gnome and which occasionally plays a third / casual team called " The Gnomes ".

Atypical colitis is a phrase that is occasionally used by physicians for a colitis that does not conform to criteria for accepted types of colitis.

The phrase has become a rallying cry for American soccer fans and the Gadsden flag can occasionally be seen at national team games.

This phrase is occasionally seen in American print media ( most often in newspaper sport sections ), but is more common in Britain.

The phrase is occasionally used to indicate the end of an argument or process in real life.

Known as ' Blundellisms ' ( an apparently affectionate throw-back to Murray Walker's now legendary ' Murrayisms '), Mark's curious turn of phrase is sometimes humorous, occasionally baffling, and often linguistically unsound.

In the English language, the phrase carrier rocket was used earlier, and still is occasionally, in Britain.

de Valera originally intended that Éire would serve as an alternative name in English speech, and the constitution itself includes the phrase " We the people of Éire ", but this practice has long ceased in Ireland itself, though occasionally continuing outside.