But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.

I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.

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.

In Senator Joseph McCarthy's phrase, it was the most unheard-of thing ever heard of.

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.

It was an automatic phrase ; ;

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.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.

Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.

During its design stages the name Victorie Stadion was frequently used, referring to the Dutch War of Independence, the phrase " n Alkmaar begint de victorie " ( Victory begins in Alkmaar ) in particular.

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 ".

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

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.

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 phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

Before controversy erupted ( see below ) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was " FIRE!

* Squidgygate, the covert leaking of a bugged phone call between the Princess of Wales and James Hewitt, although the phrase originally referred to the exposure of the Princess's extramarital affair ( 1992 )

The word consilience was originally coined as the phrase " consilience of inductions " by William Whewell (" consilience " refers to a " jumping together " of knowledge ).

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

It originally comes from the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark " in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase " tug of war " originally meant " the decisive contest ; the real struggle or tussle ; a severe contest for supremacy ".

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 Old Norse feminine víking ( as in the phrase fara í víking ) may originally have been a sea journey characterized by the shifting of rowers, i. e. a long-distance sea journey, because in the pre-sail era, the shifting of rowers would distinguish long-distance sea journeys.

The Reverend W. V. Awdry's The Railway Series ( 1945 – 72 ) story Henry's Sneeze, originally described soot-covered boys with the phrase " as black as niggers ".

Bryan's speeches evolved over time ; in December 1894, in a speech in Congress, he first used a phrase from which would come the conclusion to his most famous address: as originally stated, it was " I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

It was originally known as RECAP, an acronym for the phrase Recover A Penis.

The phrase " growed like Topsy " ( later " grew like Topsy "; now somewhat archaic ) passed into the English language, originally with the specific meaning of unplanned growth, later sometimes just meaning enormous growth.

Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas, originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.

It also included TI's TMS 5220 speech chip, originally designed for the TI-99, and would speak the rather confusing phrase " dhtick " when starting up.

The phrase stately home is a quotation from the poem The Homes of England, which was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1827.

Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal that Lennon originally sang the line " Cellophane flowers of yellow and green " as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song.

Kerouac allows that it was street hustler Herbert Huncke who originally used the phrase " beat ", in an earlier discussion with him.

The phrase io Saturnalia was the characteristic shout or salutation of the festival, originally commencing after the public banquet on the single day of December 17.

The term Jesus freak was originally a pejorative label imposed on the group by non-Christian hippies, but members of the Jesus movement reclaimed the phrase as a positive self-identifier.

" Some have claimed that the phrase was originally written by John Soule in the Terre Haute Express in 1851, but it is most often attributed to Greeley.

IMAX originally reserved the phrase " the IMAX experience " for true 70 mm productions, but now allows its use on DMR productions as well.

In the United States, civil religion is often invoked under the name of " Judeo-Christian tradition ", a phrase originally intended to be maximally inclusive of the several monotheisms practiced in the United States, assuming that these faiths all worship the same God and share the same values.

The name dpkg was originally the short for " Debian package ", but the meaning of that phrase has evolved significantly, as dpkg the software is orthogonal to the deb package format as well as the Debian Policy which defines how Debian packages behave.