I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

In these circumstances, since what was expressed by the remark when first made is, on the theory before us, simply absent, the remark now expresses nothing.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

His 1952 resignation as Minister of International Trade and Industry was the result of a blunt remark in the Diet that " it makes no difference to me if five or ten small businessmen are forced to commit suicide ," after Ikeda's policies favoring heavy industry were imposed.

Morokoff and Caflisch remark that the advantage of the quasi-Monte Carlo method is greater if the integrand is smooth, and the number of dimensions s of the integral is small.

The products of small numbers may be calculated by using the squares of integers ; for example, to calculate 13 × 17, you can remark 15 is the mean of the two factors, and think of it as ( 15 − 2 ) × ( 15 + 2 ), i. e. 15² − 2².

" The Three Tailors of Tooley Street " is a remark made in regard to any small group pretending to greater representative authority than they have in reality.

Disguised as a layman in London, Challoner ministered to his flock there, celebrating Mass secretly in obscure ale-houses, cockpits, and wherever small gatherings could assemble without exciting remark.

Thus, the silent remark of Mrs. Thornton, when visiting the Hales, “ Flimsy, useless work ” as she observes Margaret embroidering a small piece of cambric.

( the latter remark being part of Lord Henry's dialogue in the 1891 version )

Bernhard later said that the remark was " part of a much larger, nuanced and yes, provocative ( that's what I do ) piece from my show about racism, freedom, women's rights and the extreme views of Governor Sarah Palin ..."

The third part of the novel takes place on the Moon, centering around a cynical middle-aged physicist named Denison, briefly introduced in Part 1 as the colleague and rival of Hallam whose snide remark drove Hallam to invent the Pump.

" The remark was part of a longer response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

For example, a critical remark that is judged to be intentional on the part of the receiver of the message can be viewed as a hurtful insult.

Ginger and galangal are produced in great quantities as well as other drugs .’ He did not seem to be very impressed with Fuzhou and barely gives the city a mention other than to remark that, ‘ The people in this part of the country are addicted to eating human flesh, esteeming it more delicate than any other, provided that the person has not been occasioned by disease … They are a most savage race of men, insomuch that when they slay their enemies in battle, they are anxious to drink their blood and afterwards they devour their flesh .’

An obiter dictum is a remark or observation made by a judge that, although included in the body of the court's opinion, does not form a necessary part of the court's decision.

As part of a two year plan to phase turbos out of Formula One, the FIA introduced a mandatory pop-off valve to the turbo powered cars which restricted boost to 4. 0 bar, thus limiting engine power ( one unnamed mechanic was heard to remark at the season opener in Brazil that the pop-off valve was " the only crude piece of engineering on a modern Grand Prix car ").

At the end of part two of The Office Christmas Special, Brent finally appears to lose his starry-eyed appreciation for Finch's humour and his tolerance for Finch's bullying treatment of him ; following a typically snide and coarse remark from Finch concerning his blind date by calling her " a dog ", Brent tells Finch to " fuck off.

While Allison did not claim that any of his additional two models could fully explain anything, he noted that policymakers and analysts alike would benefit from stepping away from the traditional model and exploring alternate viewpoints ( although this last remark could be viewed as facetious on Allison's part ).

His famed remark that the advertising recession in the early part of this decade was " bath shaped " was one of the most repeated quotes in the 2003 – 2004 period.

Following this, the Question appears alongside Batwoman as part of Wonder Woman's team of superheroines when a group of aliens attack Washington D. C. Rose Wilson jokingly asks her if she intends to seek an autograph from Wonder Woman, only for Renee to nervously remark that she's trying to work her way up to asking for one.

Hughes et al, of the University of Reading School of Construction Management and Engineering, observed that the " Evans ratio " is merely a passing remark in the paper's introduction ( talking of " commercial office buildings " and stating that " similar ratios might well apply in other types of building ") forming part of a pitch that the proportion of a company's expenditure on a building that is spent directly on the building itself ( rather than upon staffing it ) is around 3 %, and that no data are given to support the ratio and no defence of it is given in the remainder of the paper.

Another acquaintance, Jonathan Swift, went so far as to include him in his famous book, Gulliver's Travels, having Lemuel Gulliver remark in chapter four, part eleven: " I arrived in seven hours to the south-east point of New Holland.

If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made ; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.

A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.

The afternoon carries on very happily, until Hal carelessly starts talking about himself too much and Alan stops him with a cutting remark.

So, as Dennett wryly notes, he is committed to the belief that we are all zombies — adding that his remark is very much open to misinterpretation.

The letter stated, " My pride is not unduly hurt by your remark that ' The Man who was Wanted ' is certainly not up to scratch for the sting is much mitigated by your going on to remark that it carries the authentic trade – mark!

She is looking much healthier than the family has been accustomed to, and they remark frequently on her improved appearance.

Coppen loved the remark so much named his team the Steam Roller.

" Looking back years later Irving Kristol would remark that " even at City, was never much of a radical.

This would appear a notably bland remark, but it is much larger than it seems.

Carlyle's sarcastic remark on Lacretelle's history of the Revolution, that it exists, but does not profit much, is partly true of all his books.

Bobby later loses his temper and punches Tony in the face after Tony makes an offensive remark about Janice, leading to a fight which Bobby wins ( much to Tony's chagrin ).

The threat was lifted after the BBC deemed it sufficiently patronised to remain on-air, however criticism of the station grew from its Radio London days, causing then Minister for Broadcasting David Mellor to remark " the BBC must think hard whether it is occupying radio frequencies without making much use of them ".

In An Account of a Conversation he made his well-known remark " I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

No analysis can be given here of a work the action of which is highly complicated ; suffice it to remark that there is no book in medieval literature which betokens so much quickness of intellect and is so instructive in regard to the manners and usages of polite society in the 13th century.

A common remark is that the game has not changed much in its formula since its predecessor, though they do acknowledge that improvements have been made to the stage select menus.

In 1994, following the marriage of Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson, Parker stated that Presley would not have approved, and in 1993, interest in Presley's enduring legend, interest that is sometimes notable for its obsessiveness, provoked Parker to remark, " I don't think I exploited Elvis as much as he's being exploited today.

Later reports would claim that Crawford, paranoid about doing anything that could be compared to the Phantom, agreed with the party line that the piece should be a comedy on the lines of Mel Brooks and that he personally revised and rearranged the book to that end, causing co-librettist Ives to remark that he was a stenographer rather than a writer, but in truth, the show already exhibited signs of much larger changes of a similar fashion as far back as the workshop production in mid-May 2001 before Crawford's casting ; it seems that Crawford's major contributions at this time were in the vein of a " Continental accent " ( a bizarre mix of Italian and Cockney tones that Crawford claimed made singing the score easier ) and input on costume designs aimed at hiding alleged weight problems ( jowls in particular ).

Slash and Killamari despise each other, mostly because Slash made a snide remark about Killamari's initial inability to talk and that Killamari is much more intelligent than Slash.