Sentences with word «argot»

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.

The filmmakers began working with Argot Pictures for the release over the summer.

Johnson rehearsed his actors for three months, urging them to read Hammett's novels, and they deliver this studied argot with unflappable conviction.

«Yiddish «supplanting Latin as the spice in American legal argot»?

-LRB-...) 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).

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).

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.

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.

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

The two men communicate in a special argot of their own, which sounds like a cross between the styles of Richard Pryor and Nathan Detroit.

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).

Like CB - radio buffs, the Clones (so named because of their idolatrous imitation of Rome's style) got off on the show's insider argot.

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).

As everyone knows, a scientist is a man with unusual hair who discovers the secrets of the universe, speaks an obscure argot, and acts oddly.

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.

Next Page: Therapy is a gift [pagebreak] «Therapy is a gift» Improvements in «social functioning» may be the dry argot therapists use to describe patient success.

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.

Written by Christine Argot, Claire Denis.

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.

At his best, Hughes depicted a fully developed universe grounded in visual details and populated by characters speaking in a teen argot of his own invention.

China Lion is opening war drama Our Time Will Come targeting first - language Chinese speakers on this side of the Pacific in 17 theaters Friday, while Argot Pictures is launching doc Swim Team on both coasts.

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.

-- and adroitly adapting it to cinematic or gameplay argot.

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.

As mysterious and inaccessible to most as a Travellers» horse - fair, but also as intriguing, with its aura of a familial mustering, its particular argot, its sense of occasion.

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

(Argot Pictures)

Main Yiddish «supplanting Latin as the spice in American legal argot»?»

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).

The developing conversation about the future of the legal profession is creating its own argot.

To put it in the argot of Middle - earth, it's the one idea to rule them all.

Just as my «chomper» (in the argot of the game) had been consumed by the monsters, I had been consumed by Pac - Man.

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.

Miliband's aides say that, looking back, he blames the Labour defeat on the SNP, and the failure of the campaign to inspire hope among certain key voting blocs — known, in the argot of pollsters, as Mosaic groups G and H: middle - class families with small children, and young couples trying to settle down.

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.

Perversely, the labels — «signage» in the argot of zoos — seem to miss every true opportunity to educate.

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.

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

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Unlike the neighboring towns of Valenciennes or Maubeuge, iron / steel works did An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot [a ʁ ˈ ɡ o] «slang») is a secret language used by various groups — .