Sentences with phrase «kind of shorthand»

Historically, signals from the Coppock Curve have been kind of a shorthand for conditions that we believe actually matter: a material retreat in valuations that is then coupled with an early improvement in market action.

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

His script too often tells rather than shows, relies on the most obvious kind of shorthand to explain Assange's personal baggage, and offers ham - fisted proclamations to drive points home.

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

Refined Coconut Oil undergoes high temperatures (i.e. over 400 °F for deodorizing) that EVCO does not, therefore EVCO may be called raw as a kind of shorthand.

For example, the whooping crane, though almost extinct and living as a ward of man, has come to be a kind of shorthand symbol for nature.

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

The casting of Duvall is a kind of shorthand.

«We have this kind of shorthand and relationship that is at the foundation of everything I do,» he said.

Torres and Howell have already developed a kind of shorthand that allows Torres» script writing process to become leaner and leaner as the story progresses.

A kind of shorthand has emerged based on popular culture and our shared

P / E ratios are a kind of shorthand.

I was using P / E as a kind of shorthand.

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.

[20] Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war «schools» employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

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.

They did not borrow from each other; they looked long and thoughtfully at each other's work during their shared years...» Many of Edith's late figurative paintings have a kind of shorthand that resembles that of David Park, but Edith also had a deep engagement with landscape painting, a subject that David had left alone.

(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.»

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

Digital Age culture does little to promote gathering in the real, physical world, so instead of learning to build strong, deep, intimate bonds with their peers, kids end up learning a kind of shorthand code for interfacing from a safe distance.