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 " Cretans, always liars " was quoted by the poet Callimachus in his Hymn to Zeus, with the same theological intent as Epimenides:

The phrase was even quoted in the House of Commons following the series.

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

In the second edition of January 1860, Darwin quoted Kingsley as " a celebrated cleric ", and added the phrase " by the Creator " to the closing sentence, which from then on read " life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ".

The Aramaic Targum Onkelos leaves the phrase untranslated and is so quoted in the Talmud ( B.

It begins with the frequently quoted phrase " Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres ", sometimes quoted as " Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est ", meaning " Gaul, taken as a whole, is divided into three parts ".

69 ( 1912 ), based on Arthur O ' Shaughnessy's Ode, at the line " We fashion an empire's glory ", where he also quoted the opening phrase of " Rule, Britannia!

Explanatory information takes the form of a present participle phrase, a quoted sentence, or a short statement that is appropriate in context

Lemass summed up his economic philosophy by copying an often quoted phrase: " A rising tide lifts all boats.

The last sentence of the interesting epitaph from which this phrase is taken may be quoted as a specimen of the dialect ; the stone was found in Corfinio, the ancient Corfinium, and the very perfect style of the Latin alphabet in which it is written shows that it cannot well be earlier than the last century BC: " Eite uus pritrome pacris, puus ecic lexe lifar ," " ite vos porro pacati ( cum bona pace ), qui hoc scriptum ( hbar, 3rd decl.

Justice Thomas wrote in a separate dissent that the law that the Court struck down was " uncommonly silly ", a phrase he quoted from Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut, but he voted to uphold it as he could find " no general right of privacy " or relevant liberty in the Constitution.

He is credited with coining the phrase " the man on the Clapham omnibus ", which was quoted by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR many years after his death in the case of McQuire v. Western Morning News ( 2 KB 100 ).

( This often quoted phrase is sourced from Caesarius of Heisterbach along with a story of all the heretics who desecrated a copy of the Gospels and threw it down from the town's walls.

This frequently quoted phrase from Bacon, though, is misleading, for it oversimplifies and misrepresents Bacon ’ s opinion of Telesio.

The discussion with Jesus is the source of several common expressions of contemporary Christianity, specifically, the descriptive phrase born again used to describe the experience of believing in Jesus as Saviour, and John 3: 16, a commonly quoted verse used to describe God's plan of salvation.

The phrase was also quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his famous I Have a Dream speech, as the " creed " of the United States:

Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the popular phrase, " I'm not Hetty if I do look green ;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story " The Skylight Room " when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.

Their salutation is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (" The Life of the Caesars ", or " The Twelve Caesars ").

The term " dayyane di baba " (" judges of the gate "), which was applied in the post-Talmudic time to the members of the court of the exilarch, is derived from the phrase just quoted Harkavy, l. c .. Two details of Nahman ben Jacob's life cast light on his position at the court of the exilarch: he received the two scholars Rav Chisda and Rabba b. Huna, who had come to pay their respects to the exilarch ( Sukkah 10b ); and when the exilarch was building a new house he asked Nahman to take charge of the placing of the mezuzah according to the Law 33a.

In his acceptance speech, Rotblat quoted a key phrase from the Manifesto:

This is typically done with hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being quoted.

The phrase, " Love is like measles ... the later in life it occurs, the tougher it gets ," was quoted as being Josh Billings in Jan Karon's book, A Light in the Window.

In assembling his teams, he valued the same characteristics in his players, his philosophy best expressed in the widely quoted – but misunderstood – phrase for which he is now best remembered: " Nice guys finish last.