Sentences with phrase «slip of the pen»

The whole idea seems a slip of the pen.

This is at least an indication that the comparison to Spinoza is not just a slip of the pen.

This to my view is nothing more than «an error, a slip of the pen (or tongue),» which was contrary to my expressed intention, and which was brought to my attention before the commencement of the sentencing phase of the case.

Not exact matches

There was one other problem: McPhee didn't have a pen or a slip of paper to jot down Patrick's number.

How many times have you stopped to dig out a pen and slip of paper, or your phone to swap contact details with another parent while hauling a car seat, a cranky toddler and an extremely overstuffed diaper bag (#truestory)?

And yet, just as the audience might be ready to cast him off as a garden - variety loser, Giamatti slips into a coffeehouse and orders The New York Times (he does the crossword in pen) and a spinach croissant, the first sign that beneath his schlumpy exterior beats the heart of a sophisticate.

Other noteworthy features in both models include dual sun visors with a plastic slip - out visor, a deep trunk with a flat floor to handle all the luggage or golf clubs you can give it (spoiled only by an infernal luggage net, which should be used to trap fish, not hands, buttons and pocket pens) and the availability of a front - seat console that holds phone, note pad, cups and coins and power plug.

With my interest in the novel rekindled (no pun intended), I penned a dark tale of lust, obsession and betrayal titled, The Butterfly Collector, and sent it round UK agents and publishing houses, collecting over 75 rejection slips in the process.

Only two slip leads were available, none of the dogs wore collars, and to use slip leads on the smaller dogs would have been near impossible — that is if you could get any of them to venture beyond their pen door in the first place.

You'll see drawings that offer glimpses into an artist's private thoughts, as well as works of astounding virtuosity executed with a mere piece of chalk or quill pen and a slip of paper.

Signature (1993) translates a sense of Hawkinson's own being into a machine, giving life to a combination of working parts that continuously pens the artist's signature onto slips of paper.

I adorned my Apple Pencil with a clip from one of my Micron pens: Once you slide it off the Micron top, you just have to slip it on, nib first, up the Pencil body.

Virtually every appraisal request was handed to me by the boss on a slip of paper with the target amount penned in by the boss.