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.

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 has come to mean any injury, damage or harm ( physical or otherwise ) caused to a third party due to the action of belligerents.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

During World War II and for decades after, the phrase " Kilroy was here " with accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and its filtering into American popular culture.

' In 1989, Jerry Mahlman ( a proponent of anthropogenic global warming theory ) used the phrase ' noisy junk science ' in reference to the alternative theory of global warming due to solar variation presented in Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem by Frederick Seitz et al.

Van Voorst states that it is hard to imagine that the phrase " receive the truth with pleasure " used in the Testimonium is the work of a Christian interpolator, for Christian writers generally avoid the use of the word " pleasure ( ηδονή in Greek ) in a positive sense due to its association with hedonism.

However, due to the influence of Confucian Ren, the phrase ‘ Wo ai ni ’ ( I love you ) carries with it a very specific sense of responsibility, commitment and loyalty.

When decades later Prokofiev wrote about his lessons with Glière, he gave due credit to Glière's sympathetic qualities as a teacher but complained that Glière had introduced him to " square " phrase structure and conventional modulations which he subsequently had to unlearn.

The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.

Their belief was based on the phrase " half-time after the time ", when the apocalypse was due to occur, which appears in the Book of Revelation and was seen as referring to 1500.

" The phrase due process of law first appeared in a statutory rendition of Magna Carta in A. D. 1354 during the reign of Edward III of England, as follows: " No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.

Here the phrase " due use of the ordinary means " includes appeals to pastors and teachers

** Enclosing a phrase between two asterisks is used to denote an action the user is " performing ", e. g. < tt >* pulls out a paper *</ tt >, although this usage is also common on forums, and less so on most chat rooms due to / me or similar commands.

This may be due to a misinterpretation of the phrase " first century " or because Hero was a common name.

The phrase is one of the few cases in the English language where the adjective is a postmodifier — some other phrases, such as the legal terms attorney general and court martial, also follow that pattern, largely due to the influence of Norman French.

One last words reference work provides at least four distinct historical claims to his last words ( and additional variations of these ) – While many include the phrase " un grand peut-être " (" a Great Perhaps ") – all are listed as " doubtful " due to lack of documentation.

This confusion is due in part to how these concepts are employed in the phrase structure grammars of the chomskyan tradition.

The unit's radio callsign was Felix, many believe this to be an allusion to the cat with nine lives and led to the phrase " Fetch Felix " whenever a suspect device was encountered and became the title of the 1981 book Fetch Felix ; it is however due one of two reasons.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock ' n ' roll " due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll ", in reference to the musical genre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s.

It is particularly effective for students whose native language is English, due to the high probability of a simple English word or short phrase being understood by the conversational partner.

The phrase Coxey's Army has also come to refer to a ragtag band, possibly due to an incident during the second march in 1914.

Use of the phrase was often received with laughter from studio audiences, due to Del's oblivious belief that it had affectionate implications.

This is said to have given rise to the phrase " 23 skidoo ", from what policemen would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds swirling around the building due to the strong downdrafts.

The phrase ' Rev Al is a racist ' was made # 1 on Google Trends for 07-08-09 due to the controversial comments made by Reverend Al Sharpton during Michael Jackson's Memorial Service.