"To repeat the phrase" means to say the same words over again, usually to emphasize or reinforce a point.
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Don't
repeat phrases from your resume Remember that your resume is already on the table — your resume is in front of the interviewer.
The instructor of my breastfeeding
class repeated the phrase, «if breastfeeding hurts, you're doing it wrong,» like a mantra.
After repeating this phrase, it is very helpful to feel grateful for the good that was in the relationship — the happiness, the joys, the life lessons.
Repeat a phrase in several different tones of voice and have him guess what you mean each time.
It's as if by
repeating phrases over and over again like a mantra, aided and abetted by the web and social media, a phrase like «digital transformation'takes on a life of its own.
It's hard not to think of Jean - Michel Basquiat's writings here, similarly scratched onto the page in lists
of repeated phrases.
Cho
repeated the phrase when a reporter asked her thoughts on the growing pressure on her family to resign and an upcoming rally by Korean Air employees protesting the family's abuse of power.
First of all, I'm
repeating the phrase so the idea becomes less interesting, and second of all I want to point out that I deliberately said dogshit instead of bullshit in a very tawdry play at subversion).
He also suggests
repeating a phrase such as this one from a hymn of the Greek Mysteries: «Be silent, 0 strings, that a new melody may flow in me.»
Liars will
also repeat phrases over and over again as they struggle to buy time to gather their thoughts.
But I was appalled as our ex-Prime Minister then
repeated the phrase several times, in front of a packed breakfast gathering — standing room only — of hundreds of lawyers and the media.
Other biofeedback techniques use an EMG (electromyograph) to measure muscle tension (in the forehead, for instance) or
silently repeated phrases — such as «My eyes are quiet» — to help you relax (called autogenic training).
Although Goldsmith does
not repeat the phrases, which were perceived by many as a bid to draw attention to Khan's Muslim faith, he does not retreat from them.
November 11, 2015 Silver was quiet and reserved while serving as speaker, but according to The Wall Street Journal, in the courtroom he's been chatty and friendly with journalists (outside the courthouse, he
just repeats the phrase «I believe I will be vindicated» every day).
There's a reason, religious cults use this tactic: Whenever their
followers repeat a phrase, it becomes strengthened in their minds.
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Bogush repeats a phrase I hear from nearly every retiree, board member, or other stakeholder involved with Tampa's pension: «If it ain't broke, don't fix it.»
The
liturgically repeated phrase «And God saw that it was good,» and the final capping phrase «And behold it was very good,» are paralleled and underlined by being placed in a structure climaxed by a seventh day.
«Empty church buildings are like an empty palace of a long - forgotten king — people walk past and think that the king is dead» is an oft -
repeated phrase among HTB leaders.
Seven months later Katie was pregnant again, and
Luther repeated a phrase which had been made before on the difficulties of a mother swiftly pregnant again while still nursing a previous infant: «It is difficult to feed two guests, one in the house and the other at the door.»
A complex has an integrity for each of its ordinal locations, and identity, to
repeat a phrase cited twice already, is the «continuous relation that obtains between the contour of a complex and any of its integrities.»
Repeating a phrase popularized by George Anawati — an Egyptian Dominican who strove to heal the Muslim - Christian divide — the priest celebrated all the two faiths held in common.
Rather than express any concern or willingness to accommodate this request from a man whose history with USC goes back 23 years to his days as a student - athlete, Haden's immediate response was to
derisively repeat the phrase «Unbelievable.»
Lamont's version tweaks a Democratic National Committee ad that strings together Bush, Cheney, and White House press secretary Tony
Snow repeating the phrase in dead - eyed repetition with Lieberman pasted in as the Fourth Top, harmonizing on an endless version of «The Same Old Song.»
The chancellor
brazenly repeated the phrase «we're all in this together» as he unveiled plans to freeze working age benefits for two years but continue to protect high earners and pensioners.
However, sleuths including Alan Turing and Donald Michie at the Bletchley Park facility in Britain eventually broke the code by isolating
certain repeated phrases and guessing what they might be — the once - fashionable «Heil, Hitler,» for instance.
To get money, they would
repeat the phrase into an adapted cashpoint machine, which would compare the archetype on the card with their speech.
Chanting — which
involves repeating a phrase or mantra with conscious breathwork — is both soothing and energizing and has been shown to boost immunity and reduce anxiety and depression.
Overall, the film deals with reality in a way that, to
repeat a phrase Ergüven uses in her press notes, is essentially a «fairy tale.»