Sentences with phrase «kind of a shorthand for»

In pop culture, OCD is often used as a kind of shorthand for fastidiousness.

Ordinary Language (1995) is a crowded collection of simple metal frame sofas, covered with an array of patterned cotton fabrics, in a kind of shorthand for the psychoanalytic couch.

In an atelier - based school, like the League, an instructor's work of art can serve as a kind of shorthand for the unique curriculum that he or she brings to the studio.

(I was really confused by this passage, until I went looking elsewhere and found an explanation of «SAT»; initially, I was thinking it was some kind of shorthand for «satellite measurements.»

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They are a kind of social shorthand that is really only useful for talking to people who generally understand the world the same as you.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

He intended the simple Latin two - word construction for each plant as a kind of shorthand, an easy way to remember what it was.

What kind of shorthand communication might they have developed, for instance?

This is the kind of stuff that they peddle to justify their carbon neutral diktat and adherence to the Paris Discord, and TPP -LRB-- US), Leftist shorthand for the eco-marxist globalist success of orchestrated economic collapse and national suicide, and tragically, like all Leftist conflagrations, it augers the relentless inevitability of mounds of corpses, already hinted at by the exploding heads of school children, or easy reference to coal trains, or recurrent reference to executing those who commit climatism denial.

Freelance film critic Ben Kenigsberg said, «They're a useful shorthand or heuristic for readers, but I think they're kind of a tongue - in - cheek way of looking at movies, and I think they should be taken as such.»

Frankly, metrics are a kind of shorthand that hiring managers look for when scanning resumes.

Today you're reading my fourth article on the subject, and I'm going to tell you about Dr. Le's fourth best predictor: a specific kind of closeness or intimacy known as «IOS,» shorthand for «inclusion of other in the self.»