| 单词 | locution |
| 例句 | This smart observation is also destabilizing: if digital English is “informal,” but imports “formal” locutions, one wonders what the categories are for in the first place. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’ Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The results are usually effervescent and entertaining, despite the script’s faithfulness to Junie’s odd locution. Review: Junie B. Jones, the Raging Bull of First Grade 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Austin distinguished “locution”, the act of speaking itself, from “illocution”: the thing done in the world by that act. “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z I’ve always been fascinated by what I call the ‘specialized locutions’ that develop in any environment that was isolated, like Deadwood was, where the people in that environment are dealing only with each other. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Moreover, the more luxe-sounding excursions I’d considered often seemed to involve a time commitment of a week or more, along with New Age locution that somehow did not sit right. Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z Deaf to the innovations of his newest opera, critics became obsessed with the “inauthenticity” of everything from the singers’ gestures and makeup to the alleged misuse of American verbal locutions and musical idioms. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z As exciting as the plot sounds in paraphrase, the actual text smothers it in so many King Jamesian locutions that it’s barely discernable. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Campbell portrays both the general Agamemnon and the vain warrior Achilles with brooding tough-guy diction that appears to be in homage to the theatrical locutions of one Christopher Walken. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But even in this arid book he seems, to borrow one of his favorite locutions, like an awfully good chap. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z And a movie producer named Caldecot Chubb goes even deeper, noting that “most of life is about creating resonant narratives. . . . Few things drive me more crazy than the current locution of ‘content.’ What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z These locutions made it seem nearly cruel not to write the review. Remembering Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z There’s nary a note of condescension in his performance, or in Ms. Trieschmann’s writing, even as Gene’s aw-shucks locutions garner affectionate laughter. | 'How the World Began': Catherine Trieschmann?s ?How the World Began? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z In person, Mr. Herzog seems extraordinarily earnest about everything he does and speaks with the same odd mixture of flat tone and colorful, dramatic locutions that characterizes the narration of his documentaries. Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall 2011-04-23T23:31:38Z Certainly there have been great TV orators whose artifice was sort of the point, and the delightfully florid locution functioned as a sort of a viewer candy. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z He slicked back his hair, slathered on Guerlain bronzer, donned dark sunglasses, pulled on a black turtleneck and adopted a Continental locution. Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “The American flag flies here 24 hours a day, every day of the year,” the stranger said, using the quiz show host’s particular locution, in which questions are delivered as answers. Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z If the locution “hard-boiled” had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett’s latest detective story. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Never were there three more lost children than Mother, Helen and me,” he says early in the show, savoring the woeful, fairy-tale locution. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z But I know what to be against,” was one of Glucksmann’s favorite locutions. The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It was very funny to hear myself taking on those locutions. Q&A: One Writer's Road Trip with Novelist David Foster Wallace 2010-04-29T08:00:00Z But as is true of most great dramatists, his syntax, locutions, rhythms and silences make up a sui generis grammar. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z For subsequent drafts of his script, he added, he is thinking of calling in a linguist or native Russian speakers for advice about getting the locutions right. Relocating Drama From Ice to Stage 2011-02-27T23:26:57Z One thing, Orrin Hatch had this locution, he responded to a woman in that first week who was yelling about how if health care were reformed or appealed, she would die. Rebecca Traister: “We know what [MAGA] is code for. It’s not even a secret” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Despite its incendiary subject, in performance it can feel stiffly self-conscious, with its quaint Puritan locutions and nomenclature. ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller, Plays at the Old Vic 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z These locutions clutter Seymour’s book, especially since what we do know of Rhys’s life and career is, if not encyclopedic, a good deal. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z When a startlingly docile population is succumbing to the often treacherous locutions of a so-called strongman, this study of our essential moral pliability takes on a fresh urgency. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It was a great stand-alone scene that established the show's modern western bona fides, and that allowed incidental echoes of "Deadwood" to creep into the dialogue via winding run-on sentences and strangely quaint locutions. Breaking Bad 4x2: "Thirty-eight Snub" 2011-07-25T15:45:00Z Add to this the purple locutions of Chayefsky/Hall’s characters, and you come away with too strong a sense of an antique being dusted off for modern consumption. Review | Bryan Cranston is stellar in the stage version of ‘Network.’ The rest, not so much. 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Introducing the shoe phone, the cone of silence and other cockamamie spy gadgetry, and contributing to the popular lexicon several of Max’s signature locutions — “Sorry about that, Chief!” Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Baker’s adaptation is also easygoing, free of the stilted or formal locutions that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations. Theater Review: ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep 2012-06-18T02:00:00Z But except for the occasional college-boy locutions -- which pleasantly surprised the intellectually vain Arnold Rothstein -- Jimmy still isn't a terribly distinctive character. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z I kept a list of such locutions as I was reading — an “index of themes,” to borrow the title of the opening poem. How Ben Lerner's writing shatters space, time and literary borders 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z An awkward locution, but it appeases the sensitivity police. Opinion | Woke word-policing is now beyond satire 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The New Hampshire Democrat, who got elected six years ago by a margin of just 1,017 votes, uses an unmistakably New England locution to describe her state’s voters: “Wicked independent.” Opinion | Purple politics could keep the Senate blue 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z And how about that use of "thumbing their noses"? With that aged locution, the good governor is, without doubt, speaking directly to his demographic. Why has Republican rhetoric gotten so unhinged? It's pure projection 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z In “Going Nucular,” he discussed the use of “was like” by young people as a replacement for “says” or “said” — a modern-day locution that drives grammatical purists mad. Geoffrey Nunberg, who explored how language shapes politics and insults, dies at 75 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z It was his background as an educator that he credited for his repetitive locution style - or, as waggish journalists dubbed it, his "single transferable speech". Fish, finance, football: The lesser-known John Hume 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Once you hear it, it’s hard to get the locution out of your brain. When Donald met Scott: a reporter's view of Trump and his White House wonderland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “It is not a witch hunt,” he snapped when asked about Trump’s favorite locution. Opinion | Mueller’s hearing proves that Trump and his apologists are lying 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Nearly five years ago, Downey used a Downey-ish locution while speaking to this reporter, then at the Los Angeles Times, to describe just these ambitions. Robert Downey Jr. and Marvel created a box office streak few thought was possible. Now they are doing something even more surprising. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That locution seemed to diminish the events themselves, which, as a unanimous jury found, occurred decades ago. Opinion | The No. 3 ranking official in the Catholic Church has been convicted of sex abuse. Where is the reckoning? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z A familiar locution, understood by all readers, allows them to cut to the action, as it were. If you thought Snake Plissken’s New York was a dangerous place... | Kevin McKenna 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Spooky plays records from different periods—cocktail music of the fifties, poetry readings from the sixties, eighties rap—at speeds of his own choosing, thereby manipulating the singer’s, or the speaker’s, locution. Hilton Als: When the Music Is You 1996-08-19T04:00:00Z Some worried that the locution had devolved into mere prepositional posturing. Opinion | Go Ahead, Speak for Yourself 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z News accounts of the Las Vegas nightmare are using various locutions to describe the scope of the murders. Opinion | The Debate That Goes Nowhere 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I always find the locution “survived by” too cruel to bear. The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z No person who thinks differently, no testing locution, no unexpected idea, no breath of wind to refresh the staleness of resentments grown old and petulant with repeated utterance. The riddle of Donald Trump: how a man of few words reached the pinnacle of power 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Trump himself was wary of the locution at first. Draining the Swamp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “Page-swipers” conveys the notion of motion — the reader’s finger gliding on a glowing screen — but as a locution, it will never catch on. Now Arriving on the New York Subway: Free E-Books, Timed for Your Commute 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Yet as used online, the locution usually refers to an experience not shared between the writer and the reader. That time when ‘that time when’ took over the Internet 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s not his only strange locution using an article or pronoun in talking to African Americans. Donald Trump is good at walling himself off from minority groups 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z To use the locution of one powerful woman in the news, men or ostensibly empathetic women such as Ms. Young should not be thin-skinned, especially in light of the turn our politics has taken. Missing the point on feminism 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z I found these locutions unsettling, as if “a Lindblad” were something vaguely but expensively spiritual. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He could be death on academic locution and on the ungainly “in terms of,” the overused “scenario,” the misused “transpire,” the merely hideous “prioritize.” Death of a Word Man 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z That odd linguistic formulation has been heard throughout this fraught election season, introducing a new dodge into the lexicon of tortured political locution. Sorry, Trump, Cruz and Kasich: These high-profile Republicans are just not that into you 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The language gap can certainly go a long way to explain his unusual locutions. There’s No Sex Masochism in Soccer, United Manager Says 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In January, Kadyrov attacked Russia’s liberal opposition, saying that its leaders were traitors, who “should be treated as enemies of the people”—a Stalin-era locution—and “tried to the fullest extent for their subversive activities.” The Putin of Chechnya 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z So I queried some experts about lizard locution. Are Lizards as Silent as They Seem? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z I’m not suggesting that these locutions were never funny. No one should ever say 'said no one ever' | Emma Brockes 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z With this strange mélange of ornate locutions, Chicago patois, Joycean portmanteaus, and Yiddish cadences, Bellow found himself able to produce page after page of acrobatic verbal stunts: Saul Bellow’s Revenge 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s a favorite locution of President Obama’s, too, though usually with the gearshift, so to speak, in reverse: “It’s not who we are.” Obama vs. Vin Diesel: The Meaning of “Who We Are” 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The Hughes persona also appears in his most celebrated verses, which marry down-home Southern locutions with urban rhythms. The Elusive Langston Hughes 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z De Castro’s new Yahoo colleagues got a full dose of his strange locution at the company’s annual sales meeting, in early 2013, when he berated his sales force with a rangy, pedantic speech. What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And some of his ideas and locutions concerning women in his memoir are delightfully dated: "hot to trot," for example. Norman Lear's memoir looks back at family and 'Family' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Can we have a ban on that locution? Obama Meets the Chuck Todd Press 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Scottish children had always been punished for using Scots idioms and locutions in school. Shaking off the 'kilted straitjacket' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z These are some of the “folks” — to adopt the locution Barack Obama frequently uses to express his all-encompassing diffidence — Obama was referring to when talking to the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman. Use of force against Islamic State could create a new void Into a new void? Are misleading locutions inserted—for example using “budget cut” to describe a slowdown in the rate of increase in a budget that is actually growing? NPR's Seven Secrets of Feigning Objectivity 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Justice Ginsburg later explained that the locution and her expertise in things Swedish were related. Sidebar: Kagan Says Her Path to Supreme Court Was Made Smoother by Ginsburg’s 2014-02-10T17:07:57Z The National Welfare Rights Organization was the most prominent, most militant group of the period to couch its grievances in the locution of rights. In defense of “entitlements” 2013-12-19T13:15:00Z Also, the locution of military generals disclose little word but lead to a transition of geopolitical plate. China’s economy: No hard landing 2013-08-19T23:22:03Z But it was also clear that Republicans had embraced a new locution to speak about taxes. Backing Off Deal, Boehner Invokes ‘Plan B’ on Taxes 2012-12-18T18:05:49Z But we may safely conclude that Macaulay knew much better than his editor how to turn a sentence, or when the use of a French locution was desirable for ends of literary effect. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z It is inevitable sacrilege for anyone in this generation, which has traveled so far from the days of faith, to touch on Teresa's raptures and locutions, for in sheer ignorance we profane what is holy. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z It is clear that some profound suggestion, some sacrosanct mystery, must underlie this bold locution; but what I have been hitherto unable to find out. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Ms. Snowe stands out in a body with relatively few women, her regal attire, tied-back hair and low and purposeful locution all signature trademarks. Snowe Opts Not to Seek Re-election In Maine 2012-02-29T02:40:13Z Borrow was shy, angular, eccentric, rustic in accent and in locution, but with a charm for me, at least, that was irresistible. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Then immediately she would begin talking in her rapid whimsical French, a French which she had never been able to free from numerous Spanish locutions that still clung tenaciously. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Put aside the tortured locution — were there reds among the House’s Blue Dogs, along with Bolshevik backbenchers? — and you’re left with an audacious credit grab. Op-Ed Columnist: And Now ... Professor Gingrich 2011-12-04T00:47:06Z —This locution is commonly used in some parts of the United Kingdom, to describe what is expressed by the Latin proverb: "Sero venientibus ossa." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z From the locution of news releases — “Hatch urges president to send job-creating trade pacts to Congress!” From a Summer Focused on the Debt, Congress Now Pivots to Jobs 2011-09-08T02:27:56Z As yet I have not seen "ministers is," but even this barbaric locution bids fair to be reached in course of time. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z He searched at once the passages quoted from classic English literature as illustrations of usage, and if these did not justify the particular locution under consideration, he rejected and condemned it. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z ‘Don’t tip me now, you lad of wax, Your blarney and locution; You’re not a giant yet, I hope, Nor I a Liliputian.’ The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z I'm sending you a booklet on loose locutions. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This was the talk: First Merival went over all the ground In mild locution, what he sought to do. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z That is a locution with which not everyone is easy - Germans as victims too. Victim or perpetrator? 2011-02-24T13:01:14Z Those girls all dropped the "g"s at the end of their participles; they habitually used double negatives, and, quite defiantly of dictionaries, used Virginian locutions not sanctioned by authority. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Justice Ginsburg, who was a prominent advocate for gender equality before joining the court, responded with a locution that drew laughter in the court. Challenge to Background Checks Falters 2010-10-06T01:54:00Z At some point you stop serving clients and start abusing them, you stop being a mere "intermediary" -- a favorite Goldman locution -- and start behaving as a predator. Goldman Sachs: "We didn't do anything wrong" 2010-04-27T20:17:00Z I want you to remember me always, and to prove to you that I—of whom one says so much evil—am often enough bon diable, to make use of one of your vulgar locutions. Devil Stories An Anthology He would not have enjoyed Joseph Conrad, who uses unblushingly the locution, “except you and I.” The So-called Human Race The fact is that quotations were a part of Hazlitt’s vocabulary, which he used with the same freedom as common locutions and with less scrupulous regard for the associations which were gathered about them. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Personally, with his powerful voice, sanguine countenance, and eccentric and original locutions, he was well qualified to inspire a salutary terror in the service. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) By a strange locution, Labrador, as we call it, is spoken of up there as The Labrador, and the phrase gives a sinister sound to the name. The Come Back "Fighting spooks" is a pretty locution, and every Freethinker would admit that fighting spooks is a most unprofitable business. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) By veiled words and by indirect locution one may say anything, but I have decided not to employ such subterfuges in treating of such a vital social question with the seriousness that it requires. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study On the other hand those who have learnt to speak without such study, contract vicious and faulty locutions, and rarely if ever make good the deficiency. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. Their real nature shown, and difficulties and locutions connected with them accounted for. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 But to Pinchas the idea of peppering his pure Yiddish with such locutions was odious. Ghetto Comedies He will be careful, however, in his written work not to make use of the current jargon, especially of the French court and women's circles, or of any locutions that are not yet generally received. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams This also is an English locution—they say = the world at large says. A Handbook of the English Language But this sympathy betrayed him sometimes into a free rendering of locutions such as a translator should be chary of indulging in. Old Familiar Faces If, as Horace and Professor Davidson aver, usage in language makes right, then the grammarians ought long ago to have invented some theory upon which the locution you are mistaken could be defended. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "Not—not altogether," said he, unhappily accepting the common locution of the town, that means always more than it says. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure It is choke-full of all kinds of learning, of the most pungent remarks—a very hoard of sentences and saws, “of vigorous locutions and picturesque phrases, of strong, sound sense, and robust English.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The correlatives of that locution appear in other languages. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Borrow was shy, eccentric, angular, rustic in accent and in locution, but with a charm for me, at least, that was irresistible. Old Familiar Faces Of these queer locutions, amount of perfection is a very good example. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Borrow was shy, angular, eccentric, rustic in accent and in locution, but with a charm for me, at least, that was irresistible. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The pressing question with me is not the truth or the falsehood, the amount of reality or the amount of imagination in Teresa’s locutions and visions. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings The unusual locution "affection of truth" or "of good," which Mr. Ager abandoned, translating "for truth" and "for good," has been returned to. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence But in that he was—to use the usual Flat Creek locution—in that he was "a hoss." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) A tolerable idea of the state of the discussion regarding the propriety of using the locution is being built, and all like expressions, will, it is hoped, be obtained from the following extracts. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The scholar accepted the rural locution, the work perhaps of the imagination of childhood, and applied it at hazard without informing himself more particularly. Social Life in the Insect World But while I have not ventured to discuss the provincialisms of the Indiana backwoods, I have been careful to preserve the true usus loquendi of each locution. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana In these trances she generally heard Divine "locutions." Christian Mysticism In almost all there is a want of central interest in the characters that should be central; in some an exaggeration of dialect; or of quaint non-dialectic but also non-catholic locutions on the author's part. The English Novel Whether it is a more signal achievement to create a new speech through the readjustment of established locutions than to evolve it from fresh and unworked elements, is open to debate. Edward MacDowell So long as they have a decent sound, how infinitely preferable are locutions in which etymology finds nothing to dissect! Social Life in the Insect World But in that he was—to use the usual Flat Creek locution—in that he was "a boss." The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana "She laughed till she nearly wetted the floor," I have heard a young woman in the country say, evidently using without thought a familiar locution. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women In Virginia locutions may be heard which have scarcely been current in literature since Shakespeare's time. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature A very proper locution, although it seems a misuse of words to us, as it expresses the idea of rendering honor to those who are deemed worthy thereof. The Devil's Pool Of course she was incapable of such a locution, and it was silly of him to have thought otherwise, even momentarily. The Roll-Call Meanwhile we indulge our sneaking desire for the forbidden locution by the use of the “who” in certain twilight cases in which we can cover up our fault by a bit of unconscious special pleading. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It is of course the characteristic Scripture locution for those who in some way enjoy the special favour of God. Our Lady Saint Mary If condemnation of this dreadful locution seem needless bear the matter in mind in your reading and you will soon be of a different opinion. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults We retired while Caterna poured out all the locutions in his marine and theatrical vocabulary. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent It was an odd locution for her to have employed that she was "going out for the day." Mary Wollaston The same prosodic objection does not apply to such parallel locutions as what did and when did. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech The slang of athletics, by the way, is in great part made up of extremely sanguinary locutions borrowed from the terminology of warfare. Theory of the Leisure Class Many good writers, even some devoid of the lexicographers' passion for inclusion and approval, have specifically defended this locution, backing their example by their precept. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Mastery, for instance, of certain locutions peculiar to the Southwest will take their user to the Aztecs, to Spain, and to the border of ballads and Sir Walter Scott's romances. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations The locution of which we have made use—passed to the state of—has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Les Misérables This is why the stress in locutions like He didn’t go, did he? and isn’t he? is thrown back on the verb; it is not a matter of logical emphasis. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech He paused for a moment, both in his locution, and in his walk back and forward across the floor. A Strange Discovery Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults His prose and poetry swarm with locutions that would have made Lindley Murray's hair stand on end. Among My Books First Series The work of some writers is chiefly made up of these hackneyed locutions. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Every word, every grammatical element, every locution, every sound and accent is a slowly changing configuration, molded by the invisible and impersonal drift that is the life of language. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech This same locution in the vernacular is found in the Tagalog folk-tale of “Lucas the Strong.” Filipino Popular Tales Not all locutions blacklisted herein are always to be reprobated as universal outlaws. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Thus, all kinds of Shaksperian incidents and locutions are brought forward, wherever they are apt to produce the most comic effect. Shakspere and Montaigne These locutions are so frequent, that I cannot count them; many of them are reproaches, and He sends them when I fall into imperfections. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus Theoretically we can still say the moon’s phases or a newspaper’s vogue; practically we limit ourselves pretty much to analytic locutions like the phases of the moon and the vogue of a newspaper. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech We are apt in England to class as an "Americanism" every unfamiliar, or too familiar, locution which we do not happen to like. America To-day, Observations and Reflections Only the second of these alternative locutions in each paragraph is allowed by many grammarians; they utterly condemn the first. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition It is not agreeable to find foreign accents and stumbling locutions passing from the piquant exception to the general rule of discourse. Impressions of Theophrastus Such It was in Avila, three or two years before,--I believe it is three,--she began to think that she occasionally heard interior locutions, and had visions and revelations interiorly. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus It is worth looking into the reason for our curious reluctance to use locutions involving the word “whom” particularly in its interrogative sense. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech I am very much mistaken if the locution does not occur elsewhere in Holmes. America To-day, Observations and Reflections His art was, in Tolstoy's phrase, "the art of a people—universal art"; and his style was rich in the locutions of the common people, rich and racy of the soil. Mark Twain The memory of these survives even now in our popular locutions. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus All the locutions have been verified, and every one of them accomplished; and this is a very great�test. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus If I may permit myself a vulgar locution, the green is in his eye. Without Prejudice I select it merely as an example of a demonstrably vicious locution which ought indubitably to be banished from the language. America To-day, Observations and Reflections In filling this by boldness and invention as Montaigne did, in creating, in imagining the expression and locution that is wanting, our prose should appear equally finished. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian I do not care for, as language, two or three ready-made locutions, such as "break the ice." The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters I think, too, that these locutions have done your soul good, and in particular that they have made you see your own wretchedness and your faults more clearly, and amend them. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Cumbrous locutions, these; but through them he seemed to be getting nearer to what he wanted. Crome Yellow "Marines appear to be in the ascendant," said Sir Willoughby, astonished at the locution and pleading in the interests of a son of one. The Egoist After these locutions of the evil one, the soul is never gentle, but is, as it were, terrified, and greatly�disgusted. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus The treatise on Mystical theology contained in Chapters X. to XXI., the investigation of Divine locutions, Visions and Revelations in the concluding portion of the work could have had no place in any previous writing. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus But as to the divine locution, we listen to that as we do to a person of great holiness, learning, or authority, whom we know to be incapable of uttering a falsehood. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus How is it that the understanding has time enough to arrange these locutions? The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus I end by saying that, in my opinion, we may hear the locutions that proceed from the understanding whenever we like, and think that we hear them whenever we pray. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus I know by experience in many ways, when these locutions come from God. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus What you say of God's way of teaching the soul, without respect to the imagination and without interior locutions, is safe, and I find nothing to object to it. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus If it be anything which the understanding has fashioned, however cunningly it may have done so, he sees that it is the understanding which has arranged that locution, and that it is speaking of itself. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus There are so many ways of ascertaining the nature of these locutions, that if a person be once deceived, he will not be deceived often. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus But, on the other side, the divine locutions instruct us without loss of time, and we understand matters which seem to require a month on our part to arrange. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus Interior locutions in these days have been a delusion of many, and exterior locutions are the least safe. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus |
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