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!

Although it was Sartre who explicitly coined the phrase, similar notions can be found in the thought of existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

Because it is beyond being ( epekeina tes ousias is a phrase from Plato's Republic 509b ), it is also beyond thought, because thinking requires the determinations which belong to being: the division between subject and object, and the distinction of one thing from another.

He said the phrase was so platitudinous that he thought the speaker was pulling his leg.

It is no less sincere in thought than polished and felicitous in phrase.

In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase " Open the pod bay door, Hal!

Whether the Davises had the small town of the same name in Wales in mind or just thought the melodic-sounding Welsh phrase fit the town is not known.

The " Weeping Gorilla Comix " is a series of one-panel comics featuring a weeping gorilla, with a thought bubble pronouncing some thoughtful phrase, usually cynical and self-pitying in nature: " Why do good things happen to bad people?

The word " Meccano " was thought to have been derived from the phrase " Make and Know ".

" At a meeting of the PLP I accused Ian Mikardo of being ' out of his tiny Chinese mind '— a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold, with which I thought everyone was familiar.

Some of them are thought to fall into the category of folk etymology and are proposed based merely on apparent similarity between " okay " and one or another phrase in a foreign language with a similar meaning and sound.

Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought .”

His hot sauce includes the phrase: “ So hot you ’ ll need two assholes .” In a 2010 interview, Anthony said, " I thought was kind of witty.

, a Latin phrase meaning " the war of all against all ", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive ( 1642 ) and Leviathan ( 1651 ).

The origin of the word slum is thought to be the Irish phrase S lom é ( pron.

Laird recalled, " I heard her sing an odd phrase or two and thought, ' God that's a big voice out of that little girl ,'" The next summer, she played Dainty June in summer stock, and in 1962 she recorded her first single.

The alap in dhrupad is sung using a set of syllables, popularly thought to be derived from a mantra, in a recurrent, set pattern: a re ne na, té te re ne na, ri re re ne na, te ne toom ne ( this last group is used in the end of a long phrase ).

Up to the mid / late 1980s, some work in phrase structure grammars thought that some languages lacked a verb phrase.

) The expansion of an acronym like PIN or HIV may be well known to English speakers, but the acronyms themselves have come to be treated as words, so little thought is given to what their expansion is ( and " PIN " is also pronounced the same as the word " pin "; disambiguation is probably the source of " PIN number "; " SIN number " for " Social Insurance Number number " is a similar common phrase in Canada.

The British phrase ' Bob's your uncle ' is thought to have derived from Robert Cecil's appointment of his nephew, Arthur Balfour, as Minister for Ireland.

It is generally thought to be from an Old English phrase meaning " decreasing river ".

They took their name from a " Mission of Burma " plaque Conley saw on a New York City diplomatic building ; he thought the phrase had a " sort of murky and disturbing " quality.

During this period, the Nazi Party embarked on a campaign to rid Germany of so-called degenerate art, which became a catch-all phrase that included music with any link to Jews, Communists, jazz, and anything else thought to be dangerous.