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.

According to Bernard Williams, Moore's use of the phrase ' naturalistic fallacy ' to describe this particular kind of meta-ethical thinking was a ' spectacular misnomer '; Williams contending that it is not properly either naturalistic or a fallacy.

However, some historians have challenged the phrase " white flight " as a misnomer whose use should be reconsidered.

The phrase " negative Babinski sign " is a misnomer for a " flexor plantar response.

The phrase " drug design " is to some extent a misnomer.

Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morals, ethics, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer.

When the enclosed text is a quotation from another source, scare quotes may indicate that the writer does not accept the usage of the phrase ( or the phrase itself ), that the writer feels its use is potentially ironic, or that the writer feels it is a misnomer.

He can coin a neat phrase: `` a street spattered with an invigoration of people '' ; ;

It was an automatic phrase ; ;

The phrase " branched-chain amino acids " or BCAA refers to the amino acids having aliphatic side-chains that are non-linear ; these are leucine, isoleucine, and valine.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

The literal translation of " Im Westen nichts Neues " is " Nothing New in the West ," with " West " being the Western Front ; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

Existence is not being ; it gives being – here a customary phrase is used, existence is a principle ( a source ) of being, not a previous source, but one which is continually in effect.

Note that just because a player is described as being " at bat " in this sense, he will not necessarily be given an at bat in his statistics ; the phrase actually signifies a plate appearance ( assuming it is eventually completed ).

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The original posters showed Bennett himself ; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase " Let me be your father " attached.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

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.

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.

Class actions are commonly referred to as class action suits ; however, this phrase is redundant as the historical distinction between " actions " at law and " suits " in equity is no longer recognized.