Sentences with phrase «turn of phrase which»

Later, Salmond said the agreement marked a «significant step in Scotland's Home Rule journey», an interesting turn of phrase which summed up his gradualist approach to constitutional change.
There are turns of phrase which, though they sound literal to our ears, would not have done to their original readers (like «the moon [will turn] to blood, Joel 2:31) or she will be «nourished for 1,260 days», Revelation 12:6, ESV).

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T. S. Eliot once described the attitude in which poets turn their experience into poetry as «a passive attending upon the event,» a phrase that might be applied to the attitude of the faithful when they were said to hear Mass..
My marks were consistent with my course work so I could only put the tutor's surprise down to my accent and turn of phrase — the dominant celebrities from the north - east of England at that time were actor / singer Jimmy Nail and footballer Paul Gascoigne, neither of which were known for their intellectual acumen.
While Trible renders the final phrase «female surrounds man,» the Jerusalem Bible gives us, «The Woman sets out to find her Husband again,» and the New English Bible would have us believe that God's new thing is «a woman turned into a man» — hardly the stuff out of which women experience redemption.
After restoring J's missing creation account, suppressed in favor of the Priestly version in Genesis 1, Bloom turns his attention to the Garden of Eden story, reading it not as a story of sin and punishment, not even as, in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, a myth of deviation, but as a lovingly and playfully ironic account of the unsatisfactory state of affairs in which we find ourselves and, more specifically, in which the author found herself in the twilight days of the post-Solomonic era.
All of which turned MTKB into a C - list celebrity who autographed glossy photographs of herself with the phrase BREAST WISHES.
I am happy to see Walter drop his «assault «rethoric when describing McNair's tackle on Wilshere, which BTW was another unfortunate turn of phrase proving his partiality.
It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».
So why the repeated ugly turn of phrase, which occurs far too frequently to be attributable to happenstance?
For animals that lack this bilateral symmetry — sponges, stinging jellyfish, anemones — the digestive system is more like a cul - de-sac, a fitting turn of phrase for what is essentially a bag into which food flows, gets digested and then must be expelled before more can be consumed.
A signal encoder then turns this into digital data that describes the waveform, which can be converted into a template of data describing the voice's phrasing.
Her clever wit and quick turn of a phrase will be sure to keep you interested in her articles, which are all geared towards the Christian online dating community.
Certain words and phrases bring to mind visual gags, which Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a graphic artist working on a representation of the history of sadness for an epic set CD liner notes, turns into sketches.
It turns out there's more to Mike than either of them are aware of, and after a government agent speaks a key phrase, he becomes an improvisational assassin, in which anything he touches becomes a deadly weapon.
Her characters speak using delicate turns of phrase and gently bent syntax, which gives just enough flavor to make the voices distinct without being overdone.
His is a material satire; a cutting commentary which transforms our cultural imaginary through visual turns of phrase.
It is more rewarding to turn to the artist's drawings, which excerpt short phrases from the poetry in white print on little fields of bright color.
There's the hand - carved wooden tree - thing - cum - hat - stand surmounted by a wooden model of a crystal, wired up to a heavy - handed Victorian pulpit - like object nearby, which is in turn connected to a number of boxes reminiscent of car batteries, each of which has on it a little jar containing the sawdust collected when Titchner carved the phrases emblazoned on their sides.
Charlottenborg, too, invites visitors to witness a rewriting of art history with Kerry James Marshall's paintings, which address questions of cultural representation from an African - American perspective and seek to mitigate «the lack in the image bank», to use the artist's own turn of phrase.
Jones frequently uses iconic phrasing from jazz vocalists and instrumentalists as raw material that she fragments, disrupts, and dissolves into associative sounds, which in turn function as distinct installations or in combination with sculpture or installations of her now emblematic Acoustic Paintings.
Should those anomalies turn negative... well, Perhaps that is why we have a new phrase to replace «global warming» followed by «climate change» now apparently we have «climate disruption» which of course can be USED to «prove» whatever those advocates of CAGW want..
On reading this I went in search of the phrase «the best model of the world is itself», which turns out to be (among others, no doubt) MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks.
That later phrase is the infamous leaked memo phrase which has every appearance of being the only so - called evidence to support the accusation that fossil fuel companies paid skeptics to turn the certainty of man - caused global warming back into a «false theory.»
Editors are notorious for borrowing a performer's turn of phrase when they don't have the time or creativity to think of their own (which happens often).
The Laskin biography takes notice of only one of the several «By the Court» decisions that happened on Laskin's watch, confidently insisting that although no author is indicated, the turns of phrase are characteristic of Laskin — it says nothing about why anonymity was chosen in the first place, or who took the initiative, or how it was decided which specific cases from the broader caseload would take this form.
You can turn on always - listening mode to respond to your command of «Hi Gear» or train it for any other phrase, which works any time the watch is on, but that feature is turned off by default, likely for battery concerns.
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