Sentences with phrase «halasian argot»

Moreover, spokesmen manifested an uncanny ability to translate the tangled argot of the apocalyptic tradition into the language of the pews and the streets.

Sporting goods stores routinely carry a variety of such lethal models (known in the popular argot as «intimidators» — an understatement if there ever was one).

In Halasian argot, people of all ages really do hail from all walks of life; America, a football hotbed, is that part of God's green earth which stretches from coast to coast; one's heart goes out to the less fortunate; athletics formulate character, as they have produced the stars of yesteryear, and have also given us the stars of today (the Bears themselves are coming of age under Finks, who is as sharp as a tack).

In conversation LoVett sounds like someone who has been around the academy and absorbed its argot.

But football has an argot all its own.

Like bedouins and gypsies and the folk of other traveling civilizations, the touring golfers have customs, habits — even an argot — that set them apart from the people through whose communities they pass in their endless trek.

But the Mills and Boon argot took on a decidedly less courtly colour overnight, as speculation mounted about the possibility that Clegg might spurn the Tories after all (see — it's hard not to) and return to Labour's close embrace (sorry).

Yet he well knows that, in the argot of that august institution, an oik is an oik is an oik.

But it is the argot in which much modern politics is conducted and in Tony Blair's case, he seems to have mistaken the artifice of sociability for the substance for friendship.

Rather, they would consist of discrete fragments — quanta, in the argot of physics — just as light is composed of individual bundles of energy called photons.

In the argot of physics, matter and antimatter were supposed to obey a rule called charge - parity symmetry, which is just a way of saying that the laws of physics should be fair and balanced.

Knowing which professors to approach in a department, and how often to drop into their offices; understanding which publications to bring up in a conversation, or which professional associations to join; assimilating the argot of the industry and separating slang from necessary jargon: all these skills are as important to success as grades and lab technique.

You join yet another IRC channel: a screen of names, or «nicks,» working out deals in the typo - ridden low - ercase that acts as the argot of the marketplace.

The Dutch calls gradually changed to match the local argot in the second year, when the two groups had completely intermingled and formed strong friendships with each other.

Key to these functions is its role as a sort of chromatin control panel — a chromatin «factor,» in research argot — regulating those openings, closings and shape - changings.

An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot [a ʁ ˈ ɡ o] «slang») is a secret language used by various groups — .

Define slang: language peculiar to a particular group: such as; argot; jargon — slang in a sentence We've been just a little bit obsessed with old timey and subcultural slang here at the Floss as of late, and today we're going to mine one of the

Through an earlier project, Jordenö met Chi Chi Mizrahi and Twiggy Pucci Garçon, luminaries of the kiki (ballroom argot meaning «to have a good time») scene, who, crucially, invited her to film their milieu; Pucci Garçon has a co-writing credit on the film.

The film was shot on location, at the prison of the same name, using the prisoners as extras, and they speak their own argot, probably making subtitles necessary even for Spanish speakers.

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The argot of New York's Little Italy is Martin Scorsese's first language, but the filmmaker speaks fluent, pungent Bostonese in the terrific cops - and - mobsters tale The Departed.

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

A master of argot, Lenny has added authentic flavor to Noir gems like Rififi, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, Quai des Orfèvres, Pépé le Moko, and Bob le Flambeur, along with films by Alain Resnais, Robert Bresson, Marcel Carné, Claude Sautet, Georges Franju, and Luis Buñuel.

Written by Christine Argot, Claire Denis.

«Brick» On paper, the concept of marrying hard boiled, stylized, Chandler-esque argot with a contemporary high school setting sounds dodgy at best.

Argot Pictures is opening doc Big Sonia with an exclusive bow in New York.

The characters speak a corn - pone argot that's too self - consciously literary, and many of the scenes, such as the ones between Tyrone and the white, racist sheriff (Stacy Keach), are familiar.

L'Esquive (Abdellatif Kechiche, France) A confrontation between two languages: the argot of kids from the banlieues vs. the French of Marivaux.

They often bring to life unusual slang and argot.

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He is, in the argot of social justice thought, deeply privileged.

Children «activate prior knowledge» and make «text - to - text» or «text - to - self» connections in book discussions in the argot of «accountable talk» (itself an inscrutable bit of edu - speak).

It is an excellent opportunity to develop the use of French slang (argot) and colloquialism, while looking at two different approaches to the concept of friendship.

In the argot of the 1990s, this is a disconnect, big - time.

Most of them speak the argot of the» hood, not standard English.

The reader fluent in education argot and familiar with the warp and woof of high - school life can't help but wonder whether the alternative differs much from the status quo.

But, ludicrous as Pryor's argot is (and Colin McEnroe skewered him a few weeks ago), we are fools if we keep listening to him — right, legislators?

The win for struggling students: Alternative certification — or alt cert, in the argot of policymakers — is designed to increase the number of minorities, career - changers and teachers with specialized training in instructional strategies to close the achievement gap.

Drawing from David W. Maurer's Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (1955), Meloy equips the whiz mob with authentic pickpocket slang that effectually functions as coded speech — a detail sure to delight kids enamored by the clandestine.

All the lakeside houses have a caretaker, called a guardian in the local argot, and these are coveted positions.

On the drive to the final mission, Franklin's conversation with Lamar has the insight of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildstern Are Dead, but with the vivid argot of an early Hughes brothers movie or an episode of The Wire.

The exhibition includes contributions by Jodi Waynberg, Colette Urban, Argot Murelius, Mirjam Brusius and Charlotte Cosson.

Airports and carriers have invested countless millions in tanks, pipelines, and under - tarmac fuel delivery, so jet biofuels must be compatible with petroleum - based kerosene, able to mix with the existing fuel supply, and be used interchangeably in existing aircraft — which makes them «drop - in fuels» in the argot of aviation experts.

(The concept has spawned another name in the argot: «parachains,» a reference to the idea of bringing parallel blockchains together.)

As the boomers get older, many will move out of the houses where they raised families and move into cozier apartments, condominiums and townhouses (known as multifamily units in industry argot).