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.

In the poem the prisoner is suffering " for the colour of his hair ", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as " nameless and abominable " ( recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, " the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians ").

The phrase appears five times in the Bible and is a reference to the college's location on what was once the frontier of European settlement.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

The word is used in a common English phrase, ' not one iota ', meaning ' not the slightest amount ', in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: " until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law " ().

' 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.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

While the phrase free love is often associated with promiscuity in the popular imagination, especially in reference to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, historically the free-love movement has not advocated multiple sexual partners or short-term sexual relationships.

However, Karl Marx never used the phrase " labor theory of value " to describe his theory of value, but instead made reference to a law of value, which is not to be confused with the classical economics concept of labor theory of price.

However, the term lucid was used by van Eeden in its sense of " having insight ", as in the phrase a lucid interval applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as a reference to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid.

Christianity often interprets the phrase as a reference to ( KJV ):

The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.

The symbolic keys in the papal coat of arms are a reference to the phrase " the keys of the kingdom of heaven " in the first of these texts.

As a jocular reference, the phrase “ not ready for prime time ” has come to mean “ not quite perfected ”.

Similarly, in British law the phrase racial group means " any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality ( including citizenship ) or ethnic or national origin ".

The phrase " So it goes " is repeatedly used in reference to death, a deliberate echoing of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

The phrase " do it yourself " came into common usage in the 1950s in reference to home improvement projects that people might choose to complete independently.

** A homophoric reference is a generic phrase that obtains a specific meaning through knowledge of its context.

The King's Speech from the Throne ( 21 February 1910 ) made reference to introducing measures restricting the Lords ' power of veto to one of delay, but Asquith inserted a phrase " in the opinion of my advisers " so the King could be seen to be distancing himself from the planned legislation.

The phrase " metal – oxide – semiconductor " is a reference to the physical structure of certain field-effect transistors, having a metal gate electrode placed on top of an oxide insulator, which in turn is on top of a semiconductor material.

A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully-hence the phrase swan song ; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a " rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan ", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.

In 1976, feminist Del Martin used the phrase " rule of thumb " as a metaphorical reference to describe such a doctrine.

When the phrase is used in connection with human motivation, process theory attempts to explain the mechanism by which human needs changes.

In the Standard Model, the phrase " Higgs mechanism " refers specifically to the generation of masses for the W < sup >±</ sup >, and Z weak gauge bosons through electroweak symmetry breaking.

It consisted of a clock, which ceased to work and the mechanism and hands were removed in 2010, with the phrase " this river I step in is not the river I stand in " written in large letters.

A child could actuate this doll ’ s voice mechanism by pulling a pull-string and be rewarded with the random playback of one pre-recorded phrase.