| 单词 | phrase |
| 例句 | But the rest of me sat there on the carpet, unmoved and detached, thinking and caring for one thing only, repeating a phrase over and over again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A high school teacher complained that it did, because the possessive phrase Toni Morrison’s cannot serve as the antecedent of the pronoun her. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They can also show up as an adjunct to a verb phrase or clause, as in She died young And They showed up drunk. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I felt very spacey and thought it was just best to repeat the last phrase of whatever the Colonel said so he could keep talking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He tapped his pen on each in turn, underlining now and again, circling a phrase here and there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They pick up the simple phrase and bounce it back and forth between them in sweet harmony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The other is to provide her with hints about the major divisions of the sentence into phrases, thus eliminating some of the ambiguity in how to build the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She could not understand all they shouted, but one phrase came clear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For all its length and lexical exuberance, the sentence is easy to follow, because the reader never has to keep a phrase suspended in memory for long while new words pour in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Though he had phrased his words as a request, Kaede had a feeling that they would not be able to open that door until he let them out. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But what if I asked you which musical phrases are the same? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z A tempo marking that is a word or phrase gives you the composer's idea of how fast the music should feel. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They had to learn to recognize the same sound or speech unit through all our normal variations in speech volume, pitch, speed, emphasis, phrase grouping, and individual idiosyncrasies of pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve read that phrase before but never knew what it meant. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Figure 2.3: This melody has four phrases, one for each sentence of the text. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But Florence remembered one phrase, which now she muttered against the knuckles that bruised her lips: “Lord, help my unbelief.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She learned his name, which was Bill, and how to say “yes” and “no” and quite a few conversational phrases. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t change or disappear for stretches or show up only in certain words or phrases. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Ha,” said Roscuro, “a little journey. That is right. Ha. I love the understatement of that phrase. A little journey. Oh, it will be a little journey. Indeed, it will. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Jewish parents could no longer reassure children with the phrase "It will soon be over," and a new phrase surfaced: "If this is the worst that happens." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Seconds later, I heard Justice’s strangled voice pronounce the same phrase. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is surely easier to give an uncommon phrase a new meaning than a common phrase. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She lets the English words roll out slowly, emphasizing each phrase with a figure-eight head movement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Usually he stuck to such phrases as "by jingo” and "holy Moses.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a naive and sentimental time, and men spoke in windy phrases. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or drivel In other words, what kind of verb goes with a phrase like one of the, one of those, or one of these? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I and my year—not “my generation” for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase—I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not a phrase my mother often used, but it was a true island expression. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The new science was thus dependent on a few key technologies which functioned, to use Elizabeth Eisenstein’s phrase, as ‘agents of change’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bruno thought about his question, wanting to phrase it exactly right this time, just in case it came out as being rude or uncooperative. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z That was another phrase I heard all too often at Fullbrook, and it annoyed the hell out of me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z One of them spent the whole time mopping his face and neck and muttering foreign phrases which Lyddie was sure had to do with the temperature rather than the marvels of the Concord Corporation. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It had impressed journalists, TV reporters, statesmen, and readers in comfortable homes who were thrilled by the high-sounding phrases and the nobility of the sentiments. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Now you’re misquoting the Bible phrase that became the first Morse code message transmitted in the United States on May twenty-fourth, 1844!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z So here’s the question: What does the obvious change in the application of this phrase from 1776 to now tell us about how our society has evolved? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Paul Revere started a word-of-mouth epidemic with the phrase “The British are coming.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To stop being a “foster child,” the quotation marks dragging the phrase down, almost drowning it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z A mislaid rope may be called a lost cord, but the familiar musical phrase is lost chord. climax/crescendo. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem’s often phrased in terms of a large number of men who check their hats at a restaurant, whereupon the attendant promptly scrambles the hat- check numbers randomly. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Heil Hitler,” I responded, swallowing the bile that rose when I spoke the phrase. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A verb phrase is a string of words of any length which fills a particular slot in a tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Did he come home on that morning ‘terribly excited’?” “I would use that phrase, yes,” said Hatsue. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When other students asked where I was from, I said, “I’m from Idaho,” a phrase that, as many times as I’ve had to repeat it over the years, has never felt comfortable in my mouth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He searched his mind for what the phrase could possibly mean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Even his argumentative disposition, to use an even more Wuthering Heights kind of phrase. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The substituted word or phrase can be part of the rhyme or not. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And the way be sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “What’s that phrase I heard an educated man once use about this country—the ‘Tyranny of Tolerance’?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unworthy of privilege” and “misuse of opportunity”: these were two regular phrases Ruth and I came up with when we were reminiscing in her room at the centre in Dover. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Huh! That last phrase gives you away—“getting them to demonstrate.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was in her hand, and the last phrase about smiling at her jewels and laughing at the world was certainly her own. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Everybody had something, some word, some phrase that they were always saying. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A phrase he’d learned from movies—well, a movie, Jurassic Park. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Other phrases, though, end with a more definite "we've arrived where we were going" feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I thought about him in that way, to borrow a phrase from the middle school vernacular. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “You figure out the words in a phrase by looking at pictures and symbols,” said Kyle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z At the Academy, we’d found out that this phrase was basically a legal requirement that you shouted out to indemnify yourself when you were, for whatever reason, applying a bit of extra force. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, the phrase “running out of fuel” has no meaning in Air Traffic Control terminology. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I will just take one instance—the first evidence we heard—that of the young MacQueen. He uttered, to my mind, one very significant phrase.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And beneath it all there boiled up all the shock-absorbing phrases that I had learned all my life. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Deliberately, they are phrased so generally that they could apply to anyone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because they had no ideology. between you and I. This commonly heard phrase is often held out as an excruciating grammatical blunder. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Writers need to look in both directions, and shunt phrases around to keep them from dangerous liaisons with an inappropriate next-door neighbor. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z With Atak as our teacher, we learned to say “thank you” and “good morning” and many other words and phrases. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z This helps students internalize the beat and phrases of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Most of them thought my presence was a good opportunity to try out their one or two English phrases: What is your name? and Where are you from? are the favorites. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Even though I had heard that phrase from every staff member—and frankly I had always hated it—I began that day to believe it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Normally any conversation that includes the phrase “bodily functions” and me in the same sentence would have me burning with embarrassment. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z ‘Our Knowledge’, in Locke’s phrase, which must conform to observation, experience and testimony, is knowledge as acquaintance, but Locke still hankers over justified true belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She stored the phrase away in her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Teacher’s English skills were better than Headmaster’s, but Neel noticed he didn’t correct the mangled phrase either. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible. “. . . to try the effect of arresting my impulses,” she heard him say. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One way that a composer keeps a piece of music interesting is by varying how strongly the end of each phrase sounds like "the end." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Failing at sustained narrative, I compromised by playing with single sentences and phrases. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In explaining why he doesn’t open his laptop, Dr. Atchley calls upon a phrase from his Jesuit training. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It determines the core of the phrase’s meaning: in this case married his mother is a particular instance of marrying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z More than a hundred years later Galileo still needed, when writing in Latin, to use convoluted phrases such as ‘unknown to all astronomers before me’ to convey it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We were discussing this issue cordially among the three of us, when either Walter or I used a phrase like “Men such as ourselves,” or something of that ilk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t get bogged down in all those touchy-feely words and phrases you read in books on disabled kids. Melody is a child who can learn and will learn if she sticks with me!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Her eyes fell on a phrase: Thy footsteps are not known. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Are you aware that some Protestant theologians, in their writings, are using the phrase “post-Christian era”—and they mean now? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A phrase that’s not just overused, but depressing. dead as a doornail. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To put only in its place, make sure it goes right before the word or phrase you want to single out as the lone wolf. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the socially useful phrases Penelope had made the children practice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It’s hard to express the excitement such phrases instilled in a kid like me from the cultural sticks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I have not read the letter, although my eyes did fall on some phrases while scanning the pages. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z When I imagined these phrases cast in her voice, they were almost intolerably sweet; now, sitting right beside her, it was unthinkable that I should voice them myself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I have never been one of those Americans who pepper their conversation with French phrases and entertain guests with wheels of brie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was about words and phrases so old that their meanings had been forgotten. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She always came back to the phrase she lived by: “If God is with me, who can be against me?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He says, “Have you ever heard the phrase ‘get back on the camel’ before?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I say the phrase carefully, like I’m announcing a spelling bee word. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Donovan looked after him as he left and muttered a short, expressive phrase at his back. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She looks at me as if she’s never heard the phrase before. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z His pronunciation of the French phrase is decent, I notice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He read it aloud, pronouncing each phrase of the sonnet with elaborate gestures. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I’d heard that phrase, nice to meet you, a thousand times. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Oh my word,” Fremande went on devoudy, “but he’s a tricky one. The Old Gray Fox, as they say. Charming phrase. American to the hilt.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He still loves to tell stories from his youth living in America, particularly the moments that English words and phrases got lost in translation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For the record, I have heard the phrase “the process” about a jillion times since getting to New York. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z This afternoon he had eaten lunch there with some of the Tizerkane, including Ruza, who taught him the phrase “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For the message that it was occasionally necessary to send, there were printed postcards with long lists of phrases, and you struck out the ones that were inapplicable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Before teaching it, ask students to listen carefully to something in the song’s phrasing, repetition, rhythm, melody, timbre, lyrics, dynamics, rests, mood or affect, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The phrase “a little genetic test” strikes me as an oxymoron. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Breaking a song into “chunks” helps exercise children’s cognitive and analytical abilities to understand, compare, and contrast the different parts or phrases of a song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Today the phrase is Gently down the stream. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In retrospect, Bobby said that it was probable that she had learned the phrase from other people who had been investigated by the FBI, as the most effective tactic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Anyone truly familiar with my father’s ideology, autobiography, and speeches sincerely understands the significance of the now- famous phrase. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a phrase I didn’t know, so I made up that meaning based on how it sounded. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He knew the phrase, some prayer of her faith. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Try not to sing too loudly while the class is repeating each phrase; strive for singing independence among students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But the key phrase is the one about ‘standing on the shoulders of Giants’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In her last months she had succeeded in communicating with him in phrases of rudimentary Latin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "But, Brother, didn't we decide that the appeal had been improperly phrased?" a brother interrupted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, like questions that need answers, many phrases leave the listener with a strong expectation of hearing the next, "answering," phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When you think about it, there is no common thread of ownership, or any other meaning, across the phrases Sophocles’ play, Sophocles’ nose, Sophocles’ toga, Sophocles’mother, Sophocles’ hometown, Sophocles’ era, and Sophocles’ death. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Oh, gracious! What shall I say?” cried Sallie, as Fred ended his rigmarole, in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And even then I turned that phrase over and over in my mind: "Count me in." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In a right-branching tree, the most complicated phrase inside a bigger phrase comes at the end of it, that is, hanging from the rightmost branch. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Each of these four phrases begins with one or two pickup notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase “Harry Potter fan club.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z To Rowan, the phrase “Your Honor” had become a profanity, and he couldn’t help but spit it out like one. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Was it a Pensacola phrase, or from somewhere else? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “A code is similar: It’s a way to conceal a message. But a code can be more expansive, with word or phrase substitutions rather than individual letters.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I’d memorized Australian phrases and learned that a blue is a fight, to make a blue is to make a mistake, and a bluey could either mean “dog,” “jacket,” “equipment,” “redhead,” or “Portuguese man-of-war.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Not like his friend, Asher, who talked too fast and mixed things up, scrambling words and phrases until they were barely recognizable and often very funny. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Don’t use this phrase all at once; split it up; Otis loves bourbon as much as rye, or more. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen that word—wickedHe searched his mind for what the phrase could possibly mean. “On the little creatures that live here. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Where do they get those almost-pleasant-sounding phrases to describe kids like me? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He uses phrases like “mutual respect” and “exemplary manners,” while people slump in their seats and yawn, waiting for practical information like grading or homework policies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It was Junior who introduced the phrase “Kool-Aid smile” when he cut a guy’s face so bad, from ear to ear, that he was left looking like the chubby, smiling cartoon logo from Kool-Aid packets. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Develop a preparatory phrase that you feel comfortable with which gives children the pulse and pitch of a song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z All the notes before the first strong downbeat of any phrase are the pickup notes to that phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In these examples, look at the phrase containing the mg word and look at whodunit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We are guided towards the all-important end of the phrase, called the ‘cadence’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This phrase, like level playing field, is getting overworked. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z About two inches square, each card has a simple black-and-white line drawing and the word or phrase printed along the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied the phrase as the pain in his head subsided. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Children are introduced to key musical elements such as meter, dynamics, rhythms, tempo, duration, melody, form, phrase, and pitch. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Shukumar was soon bored; he was unable to decipher the literary diction, and couldn’t join the rest of the audience as they sighed and nodded solemnly after certain phrases. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Teaching a song using solfege rather than the lyrics helps the listener hear patterns and intervals, and even understand phrases and form that otherwise might be obscured by lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In trying to speak casually, I’d forgotten how weighted each little phrase could be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We stick in the phrase would have where a simple had should go. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But they get away with it by arranging the words so that a reader can absorb them a phrase at a time, each phrase conveying a chunk of conceptual structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He caught phrases like “a son of the sun” and “white water runs red” and knew they were talking about the prophecy. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I too crept away, my mind aswim in ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He whispered, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and understood finally what that phrase meant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Note that the term phrase refers to the music, while line refers to the lyrics or poem. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z If the first phrase is hitched to the wrong wagon—or to no wagon at all—it’s a dangler. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then are all cliches and familiar turns of phrase to be summarily executed? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kinds of opening phrases are more likely than others to be out of place. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I’d read it over and over, adding each time a word, a phrase, a sentence until I felt that I had caught all the shadings of reality I felt dimly were there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The catchy phrase You will come to agree with me, the message found inside the packing box after the painting was stolen, had been picked up everywhere. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Having used up her single French phrase, she speaks Kikongo unabashedly, as though there were no other language on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless something has distracted you in the meantime, I bet you can sing back that opening Mozart phrase immediately. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bigger listened to the tone of their voices, to their strange accents, to the exuberant phrases that flowed so freely from their lips. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The violin’s absence of frets, which had been a feature of the viola da gamba family and the lute, also allowed its player greater freedom in the tuning and individuality of phrasing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Asher ran through the standard apology phrase rapidly, still catching his breath. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after one last doctor’s appointment full of heartrending phrases—low-motility sperm; inhospitable womb; conception likely impossible—they’d decided to adopt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That was the phrase everyone used: the night life. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Nothing good will come of it” was the phrase she often used, to which Jack would respond smugly that plenty of good had come already. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You cannot prejudge people in this business,” he said over and over when we met, and each time he used that phrase, his face took on a look of utter conviction. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z First the dark was his mother, uttering phrases in French. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how I phrased it—just a general question—but Jimmy Cross looked up in surprise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “People are naïve about such things,” Marco says, a phrase oft repeated by his instructor as both admonishment and warning. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could see her debating how to phrase her answer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The preferred phrase, especially for formal occasions, is try to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a phrase borrowed from a book he'd read when he first started out as an organizer, and it would stay with me for years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Words, phrases skipped through my mind; I saw the blue haze again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did you mean,” I said, “when you asked what I would do? Why did you phrase the question like that?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There were certain phrases that must be said in spells of Summoning that he did not like to say. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The phrases irritated her, reminding her of countless hours spent huddled over her books, feeling as though they were only mocking her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That was her grandfather’s phrase, the one he had shouted at her when she drew the long number on her arm. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrase Where I told you to run, so we’d both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he’s talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were both thinking of all the different meanings behind that euphemistic phrase. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She cut short a flowery phrase of apology from M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He mumbles a few inchoate phrases to someone who is not there. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was not the last time I was to hear the phrase: “Comrade, you don’t understand.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sticky echoed, remembering that long-ago phrase of his father’s, the phrase he’d partly overheard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Ross, whose life I had tried to write, was charged by the Communist party with “antileadership tendencies,” “class collaborationist attitudes,” and “ideological factionalism,” phrases so fanciful that I gaped when I heard them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Abilene’s parents found it charming that Abilene considered Edward real, and that she sometimes requested that a phrase or story be repeated because Edward had not heard it. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z In fact, Torricelli’s experiment rapidly became famous: the phrase ‘famous experiment’ is first used in English in 1654 to refer to it, and for an Italian author in 1663 it is famosissima. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She thought of the thief’s phrase, I congratulate you all on your pursuit of the truth. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She shrieks the phrase so wildly that the translation doesn’t even try to interpret it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The closest phrasing would be something like, “He forcibly took me.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The best translation into English is perhaps a phrase of John Wilkins’s of 1675 which is surely meant to be the English equivalent: ‘this visible frame which we call the World’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My mom and Alice are always using the phrase “eye candy” to talk about these people. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z What had I meant by saying that I had become "more human"? Was it a phrase that I had picked up from some preceding speaker, or a slip of the tongue? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The early Greeks had believed that the first being was Chaos, corresponding to the phrase in Genesis in the same context, “without form.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are fewer Circus Dinners now that the circus itself is up and running properly, gaining its self-sufficiency, as Chandresh phrased it at one dinner not long after opening night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The phrase on the aspir- ational level adds nothing to aspire, nor is a prejudice reduction model any more sophisticated than reducing prejudice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He stopped whistling in the middle of a phrase; mentally, she finished it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Judges with the caring look that meant nothing as lawyers said legal phrases that meant nothing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Are you familiar with the phrase unreliable narrator? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Hast thou ever heard slave owners talk? They use that phrase to say the colored men are constitutionally unfit to mingle with whites.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z All I caught was “chai mekhai,” a phrase I had memorized because it meant “Do you want tea?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Certain phrases drifted through the keyhole or under the door of Father’s office and up the staircase and round the landing and under the door of Bruno’s bedroom. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z The first and last syllables are stressed, as in the phrase “Once in a way.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not circle about topics, searching for the right phrase, or double back to restate a previous sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It is a formidable roadblock, this stock phrase, in the path of understanding between expert and layman. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For this was the phrase Bengalis always used in place of good-bye. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s when we first started hearing the phrases, “Black is beautiful” and “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud!” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But even without text, the phrases in a melody can be very clear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This is such a familiar phrase that she should have it tattooed on her wrist, or maybe over her heart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Forgive these bold words, but I know not how to fashion pretty phrases fit for such as thee. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Most phrases have a head: a single word inside the phrase that determines its properties. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Now these corners became, in John Donne’s phrase, ‘the round earth’s imagin’d corners’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “He is celebrated today as one of Russia’s most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase ‘eccentric genius.’ The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The figures in the foreground—ideally, vibrant images that have a strong symbolic connection to the phrases or ideas they are intended to evoke—come and go as required. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The child’s voice never faltered, never ceased, but delivered the curious phrases in an eerie, chantlike progression. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I prefer the phrase ‘the mathematization of the world’ rather than ‘of nature’ because ‘nature’ seems to me to imply that biology is involved, rather than just physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After leaping from the balcony Booth will stand tall and, in his best actor’s voice, pronounce the Latin phrase sic semper tyrannis—thus always to tyrants. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I try to stop questioning myself, or thinking about how to phrase things, and let myself talk. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I wanted to have meaningful conversations with my grandma and aunts that captured my sassy humor and penchant for sarcasm, but I couldn't communicate much beyond the usual Farsi phrases: "Delam yekzareh shodeh." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z You cannot make out individual words in the mass, except that the recurrent phrase, “But look—” keeps bobbing above the surf of language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A phrase like “well maintained,” for instance, is as full of meaning to an agent as “Mr. Ayak” was to a Klansman; it means that a house is old but not quite falling down. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At one point, summing up the implications of all this, Nilekani uttered a phrase that rang in my ear. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Congolese girls, with bleached orange hair and a crude phrase or two of English, and the straps of expensive American bras sliding down their shoulders from under skimpy blouses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have paused a little to form my next phrase, for Mr Cardinal gave a sigh and said: 'I'm only too aware of that, Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When given a choice, readers tend to attach phrases lower in the tree rather than higher. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I judged this to be some underworld phrase. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow at noon in the Eolian: “lunch and talking and walking” as she had phrased it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Never mind, I am who I am. Just don't beat up your gums at me," I said, throwing him a newly acquired phrase. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z For example, listen to the phrases in the melody of "The Riddle Song" and see how they line up with the four sentences in the song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Yes, and when she returns to the States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But as he saw them lying there on the ground, another phrase came to his mind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Not one of them was allowed to be repeated in a melodic phrase, which prevented the listener’s ear from latching on to any note as the centre of gravity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I keep getting caught up by the same phrase. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “A code is similar: It’s a way to conceal a message. But a code can be more expansive, with word or phrase substitutions rather than individual letters.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Does the phrase ‘the jogger’s mouth’ mean anything to you?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s a harmless phrase, but I see Haymitch’s eyes narrow in understanding. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, then, put it this way. There are some persons in court who are, in your phrase, in favor with the king, but who do not favor your presence or your mission here.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “I would send a”—I mulled over the phrasing—“a Don’t- let-Harry-catch-you-flicking card.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Like the menu of constructions, the menu of verbs can give a writer several options on where to place a given, new, light, or heavy phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Aru had a feeling this would not be the last time she heard that phrase. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Plus, that would be the only appropriate time to use the brattiest phrase ever: Wait till my father hears about this. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For newborns and very young children, speaking a rhyme and wiggling toes connects sound to a pleasurable and intimate act, as well as introducing the idea of rhythm and phrasing to newborns and young children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Ivy had heard that phrase before, but never really thought about it much until she overheard that conversation between Layla and Gigi. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But when the pronoun is buried inside a coordination phrase, writers are apt to lose sight of the governor and give the pronoun a different case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She takes a deep breath and concentrates on extracting a phrase from the reeling in her brain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Like they all studied the same book about grown-up-ness, memorizing phrases like, Does that make it right? and Be the bigger person. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It also determines the grammatical category of the phrase: in this case it is a verb phrase, a phrase built around a verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At five in the morning he chose the squad by lot, formed it in the courtyard, and woke up the condemned man with a premonitory phrase. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There is a standard phrase that is used over and over again in the literature: ‘Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The choice of phrase caused much mirth when the will became public on the death of Halifax in 1715, not least to Newton’s bitter enemy Flamsteed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Earlier that year Joseph Glanvill published his The Vanity of Dogmatizing, in which he criticized Hobbes but praised Digby, in the process taking over his use of the phrase ‘matter of fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The extra stuff that plumps out a phrase may include additional grammatical functions which distinguish the various roles in the story identified by the head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I loved to read, probably the result of the unique education I received from the Coalwood School teachers known as the “Great Six,” a corruption of the phrase “grades one through six.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Here are a few other morbidly obese phrases, together with leaner alternatives that often mean the same thing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It happens when he shovels phrase after phrase onto the page in the order in which each one occurs to him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Once Luke could scratch out his name and read short, simple phrases, Mother turned to math. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And he made a little noise as he said it, half smirk, half snort, which suggested that he had just uttered a well-honed phrase of which he was particularly fond. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Back in the smallest bedroom, Harry made the offer, careful to phrase it so as not to give any definite time for the handover of the sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Like with the phrase “Once upon a time,” a storyteller will say, “And so the following night, Scheherazade began her tale once again.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I don’t know why the popular phrase is truth or consequences, when it’s really more like lies and repercussions. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly tried to think of the phrase that was always used in courtroom dramas on TV. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It seems the schools last principal was deemed—how was it phrased?—unfit to head the school.’ A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The second is missing the commas that delimit the phrases making up the list of inspirations: cooking, her family, and her dog. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a Yiddish phrase her grandfather used ail the time and which she’d never understood before. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How many “angry black women” have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’ve never really understood the phrase they have chemistry before now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “The truth is,” Mama continued—it was her favorite phrase these days—“I didn’t think it’d get to her. I’ve gotten so I suspect everyone.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis frequently made fun of me when I used some phrase he perceived as Californian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z True, the passive phrase itself is heavier than the active, with four levels of branching rather than three, but it comes at the end, where there’s nothing else to keep track of. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then she claps her hands and starts talking about prepositional phrases. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The opening phrase has to be attached to whoever or whatever is performing the action. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These themes are often complete melodies with many phrases, but a single phrase can be taken from the melody and used as a motif. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Work hard” was how she had phrased it in the letter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Before we parted to carry out our various evening chores of fetching water and cleaning lamps, we would say “Peace, son” or “I’m out,” phrases we had picked up from the rap lyrics. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And it kills me, I mean it’s the weirdest thing sometimes the way they precede the idea with some kind of phrase. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Despereaux’s head, which had been full of such delightful phrases as “happily ever after” and “lovely ears” and “I honor you,” suddenly cleared. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Draw the direction of the phrase in the air with your finger as you sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Pond forced himself to sing the final phrases of the fourth song, grunting and groaning the whole time. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There’s a gazillion words and phrases I could choose, and none of them seem worth one of my two last cards. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It is what is meant by the phrases “caring for” and “standing by.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He seems pleased with it and throws around phrases like “controlling edema” and “preventing knee flexion contracture.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z This last phrase - 'no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time' - my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Ever hear the phrase ‘face your fears’?” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Holding up fingers as they sing each phrase marks where they are in the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I've been typing this and deleting this and trying to think of a better way to phrase this. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I respond with the few polite phrases that my parents have taught me to say to uncles and aunties. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Melodies are often described as being made up of phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In this sentence we have the phrase In Sophocles’play as a modifier of the clause Oedipus married his mother. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Cleanliness is next to godliness” was her favorite phrase. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Sometimes the omission is ethically questionable, as when the sidestepping politician admits only that “mistakes were made,” omitting the phrase with by that would identify who made those mistakes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I never felt comfortable with the phrase, had a deep trouble with it, all the ways it was said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That old phrase “Be careful what you wish for” seems appropriate. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The syntactic confusion about which grammatical person belongs in which phrase reflects our intellectual confusion about the very meaning of the concept “person.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For ten minutes the kids peppered Mr. Larson with words and phrases, and he wrote them down as quickly as he could. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z A flaw in identity; a genetic illness; a blemish that cannot be separated from the self—the same phrase served all meanings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The greatest benefit of my crude English was that, for the first time, I could understand a few stock phrases in the movies. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z So long as orders are phrased as a question, compliance is interpreted as consent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z River Styx or no, the way Sciron phrased his promise didn’t reassure her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Effie makes me say a hundred banal phrases starting with a smile, while smiling, or ending with a smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z What kind of emotion do you hear in the melody, rhythm and phrasing? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “That’s right. But your great-uncle, when he came home”—Madame hunts for the proper phrasing—“he was not the same as when he left.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z From stories I heard daily about the plight of blacks in other townships that had been declared “black spots,” I knew well what the phrase meant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A melodic phrase is a group of notes that make sense together and express a definite melodic "idea," but it takes more than one phrase to make a complete melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The point here was that the Declaration of Independence contained the phrase “all men are created equal, ” whereas the American Constitution itself, albeit in weasel words, expressly allowed slavery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He had an ironic smile on his lips, and—a phrase I haven't heard in a while—bedroom eyes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z If you want to say she was walking briskly, put her right after the opening phrase. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrase “outside the fence” prickles in my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I can so specifically remember the exact phrases since, later, I was going to teach them so many times to others. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruno thought about his question, wanting to phrase it exactly right this time, just in case it came out as being rude or unco-operative. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t know which clichéd phrase about love I could use to comfort him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The “head” of a phrase is the little nugget which stands for the whole phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Gan mao — to catch cold — was one Chinese phrase they understood completely. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the most extraordinarily redundant turn of phrase. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The inmate took one hand off the wall and began to repeat the phrase but was immediately jumped by the frisking officer and several others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was still a god, and I was, as the phrase went, just a puny mortal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He sings only one phrase: “How sweet it is!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Darwin’s phrase “natural selection” refers to certain individuals of a species surviving better, and / or reproducing more successfully, than competing individuals of the same species under natural conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, true purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z These are interchangeable, except in two cases, when only though will do: • in the phrases as though or even though, • when it’s used to mean “however.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Here it was again, Pierre Lemerre’s phrase, Jefferson’s phrase, the principle Clarkson was fighting for—indeed, he came to France to support the new government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The eerie phrase conveyed an escalation of the logic of eugenics: it was not enough to sterilize genetic defectives to cleanse the future state; it was necessary to exterminate them to cleanse the current state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “So ciphering and grammar make people crazy,” I said, taking care to phrase it as a statement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I recognized the sound more than anything, Reshi. Its phrasing was very old, archaic. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And each time Bull would turn away from the phrase and hunt the part of the night that would enclose or hide him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent several hours on the typing, destroying copy after copy until I had completed one that was immaculate, carefully phrased and most respectful. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I’d stumbled into what my mother referred to as “the wrong crowd,” but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Surely, “God” must be numerically equivalent to phrases which deny doctrine, or to words which are sacrilegious or funny. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The phrase stuck in my mind for days after. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Generally, this phrase of his was misused, even by those who were his supporters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d also occasionally used Latin words and phrases in his early adventure games. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When we read, “Down with the new tsars!” someone deliberately dragged out the English phrase and turned it into Chinese, niu-zha-zi, beef crackling. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Introductory phrases like these have become so familiar that they have earned the right to be exceptions to the rule. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they knew: Mr. Benedict’s Receiver was able to detect the “package” phrases, but not the information contained in them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Whole phrases of it came clearly and softly into the Song of the Undersea. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The chorus labors through the first phrase and then rushes forward with hugs, kisses, and—from a couple of the boys—fake karate kicks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She whispered a soft, musical phrase and the raft shrank down to a size she could carry on her back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “One package, many thoughts. If you have mastered the material, then the proper phrase will conjure it—like the magic words that coax a genie from a bottle. Do you see?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Listen to the first strain of Scott Joplin's "The Easy Winners" to see if you can hear four phrases in the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There was nothing in what Fuller said that day that he had not already repeated dozens of times in Durham during the past year—except for the phrase “Black Power.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Like there was no other word or phrase that would work. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bailey persisted in calling her Mother Dear until the circumstance of proximity softened the phrase’s formality to “Muh Dear,” and finally to “M’Deah.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And back and back and back,” Jonas said, knowing the phrase that always came. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Speaking in short, matter-of-fact phrases, they worry aloud over the fickle weather and fields of sunflowers still too wet to cut, while above their heads Ross Perot’s sneering visage flickers across a silent television screen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Just once Winston caught a phrase— “complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism”—jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The opening phrase, to crack an egg properly, is attached to the yolk, not to whoever is doing the cracking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What could I say, how could I phrase it, without implying that it was his bomb that killed Prim? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The silver band on her finger is engraved with what Marco had thought was an intricate filigree, but is the same phrase in a looping script. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Not known is whether his arrival was due to chance or if Massasoit had asked him to come down because he had picked up a few English phrases by trading with the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Speech was important, and disqualifying phrases included "I can’t find my nipple ring" and "This one here was my first tattoo." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Dad put on a happy face and tried to be NormalDad, and Mom disappeared into that dark bedroom and became Not-Mom, and “Give your mother some space” became Dad’s favorite phrase in the whole world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In this technique, each phrase is sung by the teacher and then immediately echoed back by the students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “A parrot can be taught phrases in Latin. It proves nothing.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Subjects are special: all verbs have one, and it sits outside the verb phrase, occupying one of the two major branches of the clause, the other being the predicate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I did not hesitate over choosing a word or phrase. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The lecturing tone and bewildering phrases from a judge I’d never met left me completely confused. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Christian was offended at Tycho’s high tone and the way he treated the King as an equal, and not least by this haughty phrase, which implied that Tycho might refuse a royal request. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But to encourage the reader to parse it as a noun phrase, he should have set up a context in which the reader indeed expects to see a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When the censor slices out the offending phrases on one side of the page, it creates a challenge on the opposite side as well. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I think it’s connected to the hidden messages! Remember that phrase we heard on the Receiver? ‘Brush your teeth and kill the germs’? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Rather than writing the first thing that came into their heads, they considered carefully what they wanted to say and how to phrase it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The confusion comes from the vague impression that the phrase is a “modifier.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My best friend’s voice just kept repeating that phrase, and I gripped my skull as panic and confusion and helplessness pulled me in seventeen different directions. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z IT beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z When she reads the word the, for example, she figures she must be hearing a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The phrase was, “I’m going to kill you,” and the kid screamed it out at the top of his lungs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to be ‘unsure of motivations,’” Moss said, air quotes over the last phrase. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At restaurants and bars, they sometimes slip Bengali phrases into their conversation in order to comment with impunity on another diner’s unfortunate hair or shoes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If the police came, Hugh would explain the situation in his perfect French while I'd toss in a few of my most polished phrases. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Or when they both scoffed at us and said, “Speak English, you’re in America,” while we were teaching each other phrases in Urdu and Korean. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z We owe to him indispensable phrases which encapsulate powerful arguments, such as ‘unintended consequence’ and ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’; one of his phrases, ‘role model’, has moved out of the university into daily speech. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I picked through the clothes scattered on the carpet, silently repeating Dad’s favorite phrase, It's all good. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She had been working very diligently with the children on good manners, socially useful phrases and appropriate party conversation topics; perhaps this expedition could serve as a valuable rehearsal. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Howard Fuller’s use of the phrase Black Power—against this backdrop of contention and violence—stirred a hornet’s nest in both the white and black communities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some saw the phrase as wrongheaded and divisive, freighted with racially exclusionary shadings that would diminish white support. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once on the long-distance telephone, Betty told me in beautiful phrasing the way she thinks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” he said, for once not doubling the phrase. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His diction could be so contagious that even non-PIH-ers, especially when in his company, adopted the same phrases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “And you think that the key to this code is some phrase that Mom says all the time, that only the three of us would know.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The phrase ‘in model’ is extremely rare, but a single sheet published in 1651 is described in its title as a summary of Christian doctrine ‘in model’: it is a wall-chart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This phrasing of the question seemed to set off a series of weak and distant lights where the other had thrown a spark that failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At this moment the phrase “police reform” has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A coordination phrase is a strange entity, and the logic of trees that applies elsewhere in English syntax does not apply to it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Have you never heard the phrase ‘faction before blood’?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was strange how when held up to the absolute phrase—the one toy I really want—nothing quite filled the hole that was opening wide inside Sandi. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Though I had thought of various ways to phrase this question, it seemed, in the interests of clarity, most expedient to come to the point. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They’d whisper the powerful words, the phrases dripping in old magic, and shoot off into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In Newton’s language, it might be claimed, there is not only no single word or phrase equivalent to our word ‘revolution’, but the very concept is lacking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She heard someone call to another about weather concerns, a phrase she didn't understand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At the phrase “Allahu Akbar”—“God is most great”—all Muslims in the audience placed their opened hands at the sides of their faces. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A big heavy phrase is easier to handle if it comes at the end, when your work assembling the overarching phrase is done and nothing else is on your mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She was distracted by Luce’s phrase: “your child.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They would play phrases in succession, one after another, three players alternating with, say, twenty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the last phase of weightlessness, she had to pronounce a specific phrase over the radio. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I asked him many questions about Margie, and he answered them in short phrases that didn’t tell me much. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I had a feeling that they would end messages in a conventional and habitual manner with phrases like ‘reply immediately.’ ‘send money,’ ‘send goods at once.’ The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The arguments over Bailey’s future began early and occur frequently, though at this point they often devolve into repetitive phrases and tense silences. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I even wondered how it was phrased to him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was now so entirely puzzled that she did not think to ask what the phrase meant. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was boring, and we knew that if we did not learn grammar instead of just phrases, we would never learn English. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Jocasta handed the baby to the servant, the phrase the servant is an oblique object, that is, the object of a preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Uncle was fond of the phrase “the superior man,” which he said he had taken from the wise man Confucius. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Graceful phrases fell from his lips in polished French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z This phrase, how many times has each of us used it? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch his mouth, lip-reading the Polish phrases he’s learned by rote. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s like my brain can’t take in everything Christoffel is saying at once, so it latches on to loose phrases, here or there. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It worked on me so thoroughly that I soon gave up trying to memorize phrases and simply allowed the excitement to carry me along. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z And all of them with the same phrase written in the bottom right corner: “She is here; she is here; she is here.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He seemed to know just the right note, the right word or phrase to rouse the emotions of his audience. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The truth is that the phrase “split infinitive” is misleading. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That phrase is now so familiar that it is easy to lose sight of how surprising Milgram’s findings were. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Often the phrases in a melody will run into each other, cut each other short, or overlap. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Finally someone up front remembered the magic phrase: “Trick or treat!” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Algerian version of the danse du ventre had proven a particularly powerful draw, once people realized the phrase meant “belly dance.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But because coordination phrases are headless, the harmony is not a requirement of our intuitive grammar, and few of us can consistently pull it off. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When you’re a tree, a phrase like “cut it down” is bound to get your attention. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A phrase comes to me, a remnant left over from boys, from Saturday afternoons, reading the comics: Pick on somebody your own size. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Yes. Mademoiselle Biyoya, how can I phrase this? First I could ask this: Do you have a truck to transport bonobos?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The strange, redheaded sailor taught Amari the words “ocean” and “ship” and “man” and “floor” and “wall,” as well as many other simple words and phrases. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He recalled every single thing Bo had told him until one phrase rang in his brain as clear as the church bell chiming across the square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z To start with, the fact that like is a preposition, which typically takes a noun phrase complement, does not mean that it may not take a clausal complement as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The phrase “who did he beat?” appeared over and over in the press. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ally, how many kids your age use phrases like ‘unfortunate stroke of luck’?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Now that they are being forced to go back, he’s been using new vocabulary, like a tourist studying foreign phrases for a trip abroad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Why should an old slave use such a phrase as, "This and this or this has made me more human," as I did in my arena speech? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ultimate success of esperimento reflects, just like the phrase philosophie experimental in French, the influence of the English language and of English science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our father offered comfort with his standard noncommittal phrases, reminding Penny that there were two sides to every coin and that it's always darkest before the dawn. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The person doing the marrying, referred to by the one-word phrase Oedipus, has the function “subject.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They slip phrases into their stew and wrap meaning around their pork before frying it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Kabbalists thought that words and phrases with the same numerical value were mystically linked. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Of course, there are assumptions underlying these phrases which are invalid or meaningless without clarification. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They’ve grown extremely cautious, using code phrases all the time, but they let one little thing slip by them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z For the first time since I had known him he was at a loss for the usual conventional phrase. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But once students take a break—the phrase that many use instead of “drop out”—the ideal can quickly give way to reality. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She’d heard that phrase a lot when her grandmother first passed away, but she never knew the right way to respond. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There were phrases like Remember Me and True Friendship painted in gold. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The passage of the Molasses Act so infuriated the American colonists that for the first time the phrase “no taxation without representation” became a rallying cry. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Of course, melodies don't always divide into clear, separated phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Matty liked the sound of the phrase “my boy,” which he had never heard the blind man use before. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z If a phrase sounds expressive and lively and nothing else will do, fine. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a disquieting scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn’t understand. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Melquíades answered that effort at communication at times by giving forth with phrases in Spanish that had very little to do with reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My dad knew exactly five Chinese phrases, and four of them were swears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I came up to him and tried to phrase my question but nothing came out, I couldn’t find the word to begin. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In our conversation, he used the phrase “the world’s largest collection of black Santas” four times, and I laughed each time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Now and then he caught a phrase like, “Fame’s a fickle friend, Harry,” or “Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Raven was programmed to reply to user queries only if they used the trigger phrase ‘The Gold-Bug.’ Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He had started reading almost as soon as he entered school, struggling at first through the English books by looking up words and phrases in the big dictionary. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I’ve heard this speech, or one like it, often enough before: the same platitudes, the same slogans, the same phrases: the torch of the future, the cradle of the race, the task before us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it’s a good habit to at least consider moving an adverb to the end of the verb phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Compare with, the more common phrase, means “to examine for similarities and differences.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom did not like to eat food that was suffused with GMOs or not organic or a whole bunch of other phrases and words that Nathan didn’t really pay much attention to. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His speeches were once described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z That’s a real phrase from a custody article I looked up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I wrote names and phrases that I thought would jog him into speaking again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, I shall argue that the new science would not have been possible without the construction of a new language with which to think, a language necessarily cobbled together out of available words and phrases. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’d decipher a phrase, read it over again, pocket it while he worked on the next, until a whole sentence, a whole page was his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Other phrases in the letter included, “lack of professional judgment,” “disregard for individual privacy,” “unprofessional behavior,” “inappropriate use of school resources,” and “insensitivity to community values.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Clockers were stationed at the track twenty-four hours a day, greeting one another with the phrase “What do you know?” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of his madness he would announce his daily needs with urgent Latin phrases. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The harsh cicada seemed to take up its melody, and the twittering tree frogs called little phrases of it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Reductio ad absurdum, by this token, would be classed as a figure of thought, whereas isocolon—a sequence of phrases the same length—or alliteration would be figures of speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The biggest reader of the three, he was the most likely to know vocabulary words and foreign phrases. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z It was like hearing a phrase from a catchy song: I couldn’t stop myself from reciting the next line. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I visited St. Petersburg several years ago and remember a phrase or two,” Gregory said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Nicely phrased,” replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Beat Box would start a phrase, and Clayton would jump into the phrase with an answer. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z But Olly’s like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Needing a break from the repetition of singing in his head the first phrases of the fourth song, he asked, “Nali, what is an N’daa and what happens?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The words were familiar to me, because I had heard the phrase in class, though I had paid them little attention at the time. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This melodic symmetry had not been a noticeable feature of the more onward- flowing, unpredictable tunes of Bach and Handel, whose phrases were so often guided by the metre of the words they set. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I took two years of Spanish in high school and can say only a handful of phrases, but I recognize that word. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He had me put in the Mabel Mercer tape and then enlightened me about her meticulous phrasing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rigorous tree-thinking demands that a complicated phrase behave in the same way as a simpler phrase in the same position. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The attacks were growing worse, and my refusal to react incited Nealson into coining more absurd phrases. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He jerked his hands from the strings of the mandolin so that a phrase of music was chopped off. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Lake freighters disgorged pale wooden crates emblazoned with phrases in strange alphabets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Speaking of ‘starting to live together,’” Byrd says, borrowing the phrase that Axel just used. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Coordination phrases simply don’t follow the logic of ordinary headed phrases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But speech for them is a single word, occasionally a phrase. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ruth looked the same, but her speech was peppered with words and phrases she’d picked up in England, like “I imagine” and “I suppose” and “presumably.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In conversation, we can stress the phrase we wish to deny, and in writing we can use italics to do the same thing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Variation: Sing each phrase one at a time. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “He says words and phrases, some of which people may find inappropriate, but he can’t help it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was fascinating to me to see the small changes in language and phrasing from one book to the next. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My pass phrase was also verified, along with my voice pattern, and then I was logged in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It was for counterrevolutionary activity,” he snapped impatiently; I learned afterwards that my answer had not been satisfactory, had not been couched in the acceptable phrases of bitter, anti- Trotsky denunciation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Rather than having student echo you, have them sing the phrase silently, and point to them when it is their turn to sing aloud. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “One phrase only. But I want you to pay attention to what happens in your minds when I say it. Are you ready?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Down the mines, there were only two phrases of any importance: “Look, gold!” and “Cave-in, everybody out!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A shocking number of phrases that drop easily from the fingers are bloated with words that encumber the reader without conveying any content. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They clambered on top of the chairs and began declaiming, in their trained and resonant voices, an impressive variety of off-color phrases that are not necessary to reprint here. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He would lose himself in thoughts of her, and plan his next letter, refining the phrases, trying to find comedy in the dullness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I think of the last jumbled lyrics that I scribbled into my notebook, words and phrases like “where is your heart,” “missing you,” “are you home now,” and “the other half of me.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I was not good enough forAbnegation is on the tip of my tongue, but another phrase replaces it: I wanted to be free. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she repeated words and phrases to herself as the men made her dance or while she was tied up for hours on the deck of the endlessly rocking ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I listened to him give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and he mentioned the Haitian phrase “looking for life, destroying life.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For I couldn't remember the correct words and phrases from the pamphlets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z These were carefully phrased to suggest, without saying so outright, that he and Edlefsen had achieved the resonance they had been seeking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Francis Bacon, when he writes about experiments, uses the phrases ‘the inquisition of nature’ and ‘nature vexed’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas once again felt a pressing ache of confusion—hearing so many words and phrases that didn’t make sense. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The vagueness lies in the focus of the negation—which phrase the writer had in mind as falsifying the whole sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In fact, accepted literally, perhaps the phrase was accurate, even if to each, the other were merely the light and dark pattern of a bank of photocells. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But to borrow a Buddhist phrase, eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mig had, of course, no idea what the phrase “divine comeuppance” meant, but she very much liked the sound of it, and she repeated it over and over to herself until Roscuro said, ‘And then?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z And as soon as I ask it, I start blushing, because the way I phrased it totally makes it sound like I’m propositioning him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Let’s just say it will erase the phrase ‘genetically damaged’ from everyone’s vocabulary.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But for the moment let us concentrate on the last phrase: ‘Hobbes was right.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I have called up reporters and radio and television newscasters long-distance and asked them never to use that phrasing again, explaining to them: “All Muslims are number two—after Mr. Muhammad.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z People like Miss Adebayo herself, who could look a person in the eye and calmly tell her that she was illogically pretty, who could even use that phrase, illogically pretty. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The phrase as a den mother is attached to Ms. Basset’s station wagon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When phrases come in pairs like this, the first phrase is called the antecedent phrase, and the second is called the consequent phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z After a phrase or two, I’d cough up a warm, silvery sound. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert stabilized the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It used phrases like “the tumor’s singularity” and called the cells “a reservoir of morphologic, biochemical, and other information.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The phrase was a bright, sharp pang, ringing through the white noise humming in her brain. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I mean it, and I don’t use that phrase lightly.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Most look like fragments of things, single words or phrases that don’t make sense on their own: Night flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Virgil remembered Lola using that phrase specifically, “petty nonsense,” because he had had to ask her what it meant. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was the one of the few phrases that Vonetta got word for word. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Pushing the not next to the phrase it negates eliminates the scope ambiguity. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a Latin phrase he used whenever I complained that something was difficult. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Here are some more phrases that are commonly mispronounced and misunderstood. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about all the travel words and phrases Mr. Flores has taught us, how ready I am to use them. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I get the feeling he’s been using that phrase that same way for all their lives. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In her rewrite of the Declaration of Independence, Stanton replaced the phrase “all men are created equal” with the words “all men and women are created equal.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Frequently, he graphically illustrated points by chalking key words or phrases on the blackboard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As he speaks, he masterfully elongates certain words and varies the pitch of the Arabic phrases, which run together almost like a song. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He had Theresa by the arm, and he was bellowing some nonsense about new laws about rooting out heresy and pagan sorcery and some other fancy phrases he had just learned that week, I reckoned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z While a Stamitz mini-tune might be made up of a handful of notes, Haydn extended the phrase, testing the short-term memory of his listener, then coaxed a slightly altered or ornamented second phrase from it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Why, Granddaddy had told me about a parrot who had lived past his century and learned over four hundred conversational phrases, as acute a mimic as any human being... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Wearing the red thread of death” was a terrible phrase, but the mouse didn’t have long to consider its implications, because he was suddenly pushed from behind by the hooded mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But now she was using the familiar phrase as a warning to Papi, not to me, as if it were he who had to do something about my semistatus. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Often, phrases come in definite pairs, with the first phrase feeling very unfinished until it is completed by the second phrase, as if the second phrase were answering a question asked by the first phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Most figures and motifs are shorter than phrases, but some of the leitmotifs of Wagner's operas are long enough to be considered phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Why does this phrase make us think of insincere widows? sickening thud. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrase ‘modern science’ was first used by Gideon Harvey in 1699, in the course of an indiscriminate attack on both the old and the new philosophies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then we type in more phrases—hundreds of them: to the mall, from a distance, in the middle of, as a result, the reason why. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Perhaps the same is true of case: the case that applies to a whole coordination phrase is not necessarily the same as the case that applies to its parts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It should synthesize a particular grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never considered before that dying, death, dead, passed away, were words and phrases that might be even faintly connected with me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Initially, simply the pleasure of your company. And I have information to share. What’s that phrase...oh yes. You may learn something to your advantage.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The understatement of the year, was a phrase my mother uses. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I flip through it to see that someone—Gram, probably—has underlined certain phrases and words and starred some of the poems. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “When I went to India and had to meet all my mom’s relatives, those were the only two phrases I needed.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He did not have to explain to Klaus what he meant by the phrase “take care of.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Now that they are on stage, he switches to a definite noun phrase: the herons head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In English, the phrase the ‘experimental method’ first appears in 1675. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Reverend kept on throwing out phrases like home-run balls and Sister Monroe made a quick break and grasped for him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He carries the words with him all day, letting them sort themselves into phrases, coming together, drifting apart, tumbling over onto themselves, settling into sentences, and paragraphs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z While we labored over changing beds or washing up dishes, Pascal would wait outside, teasing for our attention by shouting the handful of American phrases Leah had taught him: “Man-oh-man! Crazy!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bit of the lawyer about him: he used chunky phrases about law and justice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And with each phrase came the memory of the pleasure he’d been given by thinking it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There’s no need to wave a magic wand over the noun soap and transmute it into an adjective just because of what it’s doing in this phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “So fast in age,” the woman notes, using an awkward phrase. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Last time, it was a battered old Cantonese phrase book. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Flora hated the phrase “correct me if I’m wrong.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The next four constructions allow a writer to shift a phrase rightward when it is too heavy or too newsworthy to be taking up space in the middle of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A word dropped here at random, a question, a passing phrase. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z New words and phrases in any language sank deeply into Neel’s mind and stayed there. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I had learned eighty-five Vietnamese phrases over the last seven days, as well as a great deal of verb conjugation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It had to do with the use of the phrase “significantly greater risk.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Elizebeth also pinpointed phrases that identified Dickinson as a secret agent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With time, of course, the original meaning of Lucretius’s phrase was lost; as machines changed, the meaning of Lucretius’s phrase changed with them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When we listen to a song, a musical phrase usually accompanies a phrase of lyrics; a verse or refrain emerges from a short poem. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It sounded like a callous way to put things, but the way he phrased it, so soft and concerned, I liked him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Everyone in the Geek Club used the same phrases—“a truly great teacher,” Sam Hunter said—to describe Mr. Brown. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so carefully and anonymously phrased, she realized with a jolt who that coworker must be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the sight of the three of them nipping and rolling on the carpet, exhorting each other with socially useful phrases such as “Pass the salt, please!” and “May I take your umbrella?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Here’s an opening phrase that leaves the sentence scrambled. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had special praise for Chester’s “phrasing,” by which he meant the neat way the cricket played all the notes of a passage without letting them slide together. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they coincidentally find themselves rubbing shoulders despite belonging to different phrases, the reader will be derailed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The children were disappointed when they discovered that the romantic phrase simply meant that you threw a lump of iron attached to a rope overboard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t hear anything except a few phrases: Cadence is so fragile, needs lots of rest. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Syntax, then, is an app that uses a tree of phrases to translate a web of thoughts into a string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These pairs pop out of the text at us, and when they belong to the same phrase they can lubricate the parsing process, allowing the words to be joined up quickly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Over the years Soojin has taught me enough phrases of Korean that I understand when Soojin asks her grandfather if he wants her to get him anything to eat. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I sit there in his math class, open his notebook, and write down phrases he has never heard. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He introduces them with an indefinite noun phrase: Great Blue Herons live. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Matty asked in horror, and realized he was repeating the phrase from Trade Mart. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Poppy had taught her the necessary phrases to get through a day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the blunt words and homely phrasing, there was nothing revolting in Katie’s explanations. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of modern science also raises, however, a set of further questions which are tied together in Weber’s phrase ‘the disenchantment of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Inkatha refused to sign on the grounds that the phrase an “undivided” South Africa implied that a federal system was off-limits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was shorthand for the cruel phrase for ugly girls with great bods: “Put a flag over her face and you know what for Old Glory.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Within months of its introduction, on the strength of that catchy phrase, Winston tipped, racing past Parliament, Kent, and L&M into second place, behind Viceroy, in the American cigarette market. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They used to feed Christians to the lions, and now Adah uses that phrase ironically, referring to how I supposedly left her to be eaten up on the path. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because of that phrase we heard on the Receiver,” said Reynie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Who can tell me what that phrase means? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That was another phrase, a heading she had memorized in the manual. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Good on ya, mates,” I exclaimed, borrowing a phrase from the antipodal contingent, impressed that my cohorts had sucked it up and resolved to push on. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Everything was all right,” said Finny at the end, “phrasing, rhythm, all that. But I’m not sure about your pitch. Half a tone off, I would estimate offhand.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was John Kenneth Galbraith, the hyperliterate economic sage, who coined the phrase “conventional wisdom.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even as he phrased the thought in his mind, Milkman knew it was not so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z As I left the Infosys campus that evening and bounced along the road back to Bangalore, I kept chewing on that phrase: “The playing field is being leveled.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s an I'm bored in suburbia kind of phrase.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z For example, in the silly song “Skidamarink,” the phrase “I love you” can be clapped, or even just the “you.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He even ate the mushrooms while phrases like “breach the hulls” rang in his mind like bells. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She has a way of flattening even those phrases that should have inflection built into them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He had heard her say that phrase at least a million times. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A phrase I will now drop from my vocabulary. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z One of his friends came up with the phrase “health epidemic,” and they were going on to the parents and lifeguards that we needed to be ejected to prevent an outbreak at the pool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To this day, if you say to most Americans “Winston tastes good,” they can finish the phrase, “like a cigarette should.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What a phrase—still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But I chanted my own phrase in my head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But ever since the night I sang on the roof with Zohra, words to my own song—fragments and phrases—have been dancing through the back of my mind. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Herbert Spencer—the philosopher who had coined the phrase survival of the fittest—had spent much of his life bedridden with various illnesses, struggling with his own fitness for survival. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A musical phrase is actually a lot like a grammatical phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The difference is in where the phrase with four professors is attached. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even in that obscure position, Miss Scatcherd continued to make her an object of constant notice: she was continually addressing to her such phrases as the following:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One of the phrases used to refer to Jerrie was "first lady astronaut." Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Radar already had his handheld out; he was searching Omnictionary for the phrase. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Networking, one of my mother’s old phrases, musty- slang of yesteryear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There is so much that phrase doesn’t say—how quick it was, and the sound of her body hitting the earth, and the chaos of everyone running into the night, stumbling over the grass. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She took a deep breath; she brushed the phrase away. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He could hardly phrase the question in his own mind, and certainly could never say it aloud. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma listened, and looked, and soon perceived that Frank Churchill’s state might be best defined by the expressive phrase of being out of humour. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z An apostrophe can show where letters have been dropped in a shortened word or phrase. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Neutral words or phrases were a lot harder to find. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Others fill out a phrase’s rhythm, which can also make the sentence easier for the reader to parse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes they thought they could catch barbarian phrases about forever wandering. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She leafed through the pages, skimming for signs of Reed’s name among the dusty paragraphs and disjointed phrases, but the stories were gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Anyway, probably no one is thinking about an appropriately weighty yet catchy phrase to call our quagmire right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Not the words of his speech—those famous phrases printed on posters and in schoolbooks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Esmeralda,” she called in a musical voice, “would you please come up and mark the prepositional phrase?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I suppose, my boy, one might phrase it thus.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If the new phrase has the same structure as the preceding one, its words can be slotted into the waiting tree, and the reader will absorb it effortlessly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We can prepare hundreds of phrases and sentences and get to them with just a touch. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The phrase “do whatever you like” sticks in my mind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The fat man exploded with such an exceedingly indelicate phrase that my stomach lurched. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Shortened words and phrases are called contractions; there’s a list of them on pages 70-71. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn the pages of Jason’s communication book, reading through his cards so I don’t repeat the words or phrases he already has. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them mutter a phrase, some smile, some remain silent and still. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mandela, Jeremiah, and Darlington heard that phrase all the time, especially when their mother was angry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Her voice rose with disbelief at the end of each phrase. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As I wrote and blotted many phrases, lamenting my dull wits, Gertrude appeared at the door of her chamber, looking fretful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Yiddish phrase he used was, literally translated, “an iron head.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I realize she doesn’t recognize the phrase in Spanish or English. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They’ll have your faces on ’em and some neato phrase, like, ‘Because they never got to walk the runway of life.’ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They had hoped their visit would be taken in confidence, a phrase which here means “kept a secret between Mr. Poe and themselves and not blabbed to Count Olaf.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I wondered what he was saying to her, how he phrased his words. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But by now you can see why they’re sometimes useful: they give the writer additional freedom in ordering phrases in the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After graduating from college, he moved to France knowing only the phrase "Do you speak French?"—a question guaranteed to get you nowhere unless you also speak the language. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Lena listened and experienced each phrase of her mother’s emotion from religious ecstasy to innocent confidence to embarrassment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she would think about a phrase of hurrying jazz music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z These are the kinds of throat-clearing phrases you can usually ditch: At this juncture I thought you might be interested in knowing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrases “Mr. Shaw” and “back to work” were a warning that the USS Shaw, a damaged destroyer, would soon be ready for action again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A motif is a short musical idea — shorter than a phrase — that occurs often in a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was an odd phrase, and for the moment it brought the Prince up short. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It has spaces big enough for my thumbs to get into and millions of words and phrases built into it! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Like is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in crazy like a fox or like a bat out of hell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The copy editor for the series, our last line of defense against the stupid mistake or infelicitous phrase, was Joe Rogers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z So after Mrs. V gets Penny set up with her dollhouse at the foot of the couch, we add even more words and phrases. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Booth has stolen the phrase, truth be told, from the state of Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There were also those who had grown weary of it and the oft-repeated phrase that what made it special was the quality of its people. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Galton coined the memorable phrase nature versus nurture to discriminate hereditary and environmental influences. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To show that the owner of the phone was doing the returning, put her right after the opening phrase. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Jamestown and the other Virginia forays survived on Indian charity—they were “utterly dependent and therefore controllable,” in the phrase of Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a New York University historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I then uttered the phrase, “There’s a white man outside,” which to small black children had the same effect as “There’s a bogeyman outside,” but still he would not stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The writing was hurried and cramped, the margins overflowing with questions and hastily jotted notes, but she could have recited every phrase and placed every punctuation mark with her eyes closed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A different phrase in Bororo for “two and two and one” is “this is my hand all together.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Her letters to him include phrases like sacred resolve, proud accomplishments, and unparalleled in history. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z An hour before OT on Thursday, I lay my sketchbook open on my desk and flip the pages, hunting for the right words and phrases to put on Jason’s cards. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Invariably, those who knew him summed him up with the phrase used by former jockey Mike Griffin, who never forgot a brief riding audition he made for Irwin: “the biggest man I’ve ever seen.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A single phrase of Ben Kenobi's Theme, for example, can remind you of all the good things he stands for, even if he is not on the movie screen at the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote to friends and colleagues saying, “Someone should coin a contemporary phrase and say, at least for the moment, ‘The world has gone nuts over tissue culture and its possibilities.’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I know this is a religious ceremony, but the phrase that pops into my head comes from the Indy 500: Gentlemen, start your engines... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I began asking Linda things I would ordinarily ask them, like about words and phrases I had heard people use. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was one surprise; maids had disappeared “for the Duration,” a new phrase then. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrases “saddles on their backs” and “a favored few, booted and spurred” had been lifted from a famous speech delivered by Col. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Lots of cities had started referring to their police forces as “public safety” departments, a phrase intended to promote a softer, friendlier image. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the tall, loopy letters of Immie’s signature, her typical phrases, and her favorite words. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She tried to obliterate this burning phrase, and what it made her feel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I did not listen to the next speaker, a tall white man who kept dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief and repeating his phrases in an emotional and inarticulate manner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And on the white painted wall across from it, it projects the phrase, “A Short Film by Nora Ramos, coming soon.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That’s because of the effect of statistically frequent word sequences: the pair sex with attracts the phrase on the right; the pair on drugs attracts the phrase on the left. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She found herself talking to him, nonsense words and phrases, in a singsong voice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He brought them along to hear Lincoln’s speech, hoping that some phrase will fill them with rage. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Listen to antecedent and consequent phrases in the tune "Auld Lang Syne." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Let me tell you a story about one little phrase in the music of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since moving to Paris my most often used phrase is "One place, please." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Having coined the phrase nature versus nurture, Galton had wondered how a scientist might discern the influence of one over the other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He found that the hypnotic, seemingly repetitive and endless patterns of these drum- and mallet- based styles did not in fact stay the same: instead they changed subtly with each reiteration of the phrase. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But even in that short amount of time, I did count the phrase “You know better than that, Ryan Dean” forty-seven times. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She assigns us to write an acrostic of our names, which is a poem where, for each letter of your name, you describe yourself with a word or phrase that starts with that letter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The phrase subtly alludes to another meditation on unrealized genius, “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,” from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His speech sounded familiar, because he’d used almost the same phrases at Mother’s funeral. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The position of the gap indicates the role that the modified phrase played in the deep structure; to understand the relative clause, we mentally fill it back in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His shirt was, in the familiar phrase, wringing wet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z These coordinations are graceful only when the phrases coming after each marker—the ones enclosed in brackets above—are parallel. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To help their own chances, Lefty put away his French phrase book and began memorizing four lines of the King James New Testament. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had no fine phrases to help him convey his feelings; but Jenny found it a good letter, and she kept it all the years of her life. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Nugent overheard his gyptian companions using a phrase to describe the phenomena, a phrase that was unknown to him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There is a phrase which you sometimes come across in country districts even nowadays, which sums up a good deal of what he might have tried to say. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually phrases vary from four to eight beats in length. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “It’s a clever joke. Your Baba Haji made it from a common phrase. It says, ‘The thing that turns a lion into a little fox is need.’ Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The noun phrase containing view is the subject of the third is-phrase, is not based on a lack of understanding. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In March of that year, the phrase “King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra, the gods who love their father” appeared on two separate contracts. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Harry had told me that Bach should be played very softly, and very loudly, to exaggerate the phrasing, because the pieces themselves are so ordered that the emotion needs to come through in the playing. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Alice Paul recognized the power of the simple phrase, and she often used it in her lobbying campaigns. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And look at the modest, talky straightforwardness of phrases like, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z At the first sign of trouble, Victor said, get in touch, code phrase is tennis shoes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I’d said it casually, but the phrase caught hold and was amplified across the press. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every phrase was edited to increase the shock mood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One mysterious phrase called out by an older boy could rout the whole group in shrieks and laughter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia’s thoughts: Of course, of course. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In a thick drawl, more ponderous than his low mass responses, the priest spoke the Latin phrases with a sonorous, dramatic discernment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether we’re businessmen in a competitive market or spouses in a marriage or superpowers in an arms race, our choices can often be phrased in terms of the prisoner’s dilemma. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And it makes me smile: now I know where Daddy got the phrase from. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I recognize the concluding phrases of Mustafa’s passage that refer to forgiveness and God’s mercy. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The broom dog rested on his lap as he scribbled words and phrases trying to describe the environment around him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z It was her house, after all, and her prerogative, a phrase she used often when anyone wanted to sass her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He called a single phrase over and over and over. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear someone shout, “Death to the factions!” and others pick up the phrase, turning it into a chant, until it fills my ears, Death to the factions, death to the factions. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But the conviction that between you and I is an error needs a second look, together with the explanation that the phrase is a hypercorrection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The latter phrasing, while less misleading, is also less impressive, which explains why it isn’t used. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She teases Diana when she flubs a phrase in Spanish. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then I cleared my throat and said my log-in pass phrase, being careful to enunciate: “You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After a while they would have shared jokes, probably things about fish, phrases that would make them chuckle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then she repeats what she just said in Spanish, though it seems as if she tosses in a few extra phrases. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain thought: What was the phrase in the manual? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Every single answer starts with the phrase I don’t know. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Getting students to understand the musical differences between phrases is actually less challenging than you might imagine. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z How do you spot a phrase in a melody? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A phrase that the other two were taking up and building on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z From the flatness of her tone alone, I know it’s a phrase she uses on Rosa all the time. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, look at the new magazines with sports on them and write down the phrases that are cool, like “the whole kit and kaboodle,” which means “everything,” and “put on a clinic,” which means “taught.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They did not hear all of what he said; they heard the one word, or phrase, or inflection that was for them the connection between the event and themselves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was as if she’d slipped over the edge of the world and fallen, to borrow Willa Cather’s phrase, “outside man’s jurisdiction.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My eyes scan the hateful phrases written in thick, crooked lines—sloppy writing that screams Go Home, Terrorists, Towelheads, and bad words so terrible that I squeeze my eyelids shut tight. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z If ever she referred to his position, she used the phrase “doctor’s assistant,” as if the process of interpretation were equal to taking someone’s temperature, or changing a bedpan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I cleared my throat and recited my pass phrase. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If a short piece includes repeated phrases, it may be classified by the structure of its phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Have mercy, should be the first lesson in this city, how to say the phrase instantly in forty signs and tongues. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Until that moment I never quite knew the meaning of the phrase “to make the welkin ring.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the way the melody held its notes and lingered over its phrases. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I taught them to say “Drink up now! Closing time!” in English, French, and Afrikaans, though I have to admit they’ve picked up a few depictable phrases from my guests, over the years. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z World- class city is a phrase they use in magazines these days, a great deal too much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the first phrase of the song, the words Amazing grace’ share one chord, our ‘home’ chord. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His balancing phrase was not typically identical but slightly different in character, creating a symmetry without simply repeating itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The visor scanned my retinas and the system prompted me to speak my new pass phrase: “Reindeer Flotilla Setec Astronomy.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I had a notebook filled with words and phrases I might need in Australia: chemist means “pharmacy,” boot means “trunk,” lift means “elevator,” and to come good means “to turn out okay.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had bested his enemy with exactly the scornful phrases he had imagined this morning, and the seal of success was on the day. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Certain phrases drifted through the keyhole or under the door of Father’s office and up the staircase and round the landing and under the door of Bruno’s bedroom. . .. to leave Berlin. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z She had practiced the phrase for days with her handmaid Jhiqui. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I include phrases in Urdu like “ye ha,” which means “this is,” that Zohra used to say all the time, and new words I learned and don’t want to forget. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But the question is so oddly phrased that I can hardly deny him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I skim straight down the paper, seeing these words without really reading them, because the phrase that matters most is penned at the very end. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There is a phrase the Japanese use in such situations, when something difficult must be endured. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused to let us consider the profoundly revealing exactness of this phrase. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I print the phrase carefully, copying it down from inside my head, from inside my closet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This meant that ordinary sentences and phrases had been given secret meanings, agreed upon in advance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This phrase is part of me, and as unlikely as it may seem, there’s a kernel of truth in it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There are also a few necessary phrases, like, I need to go to the bathroom, please and I’m hungry, but most people—even little kids—need to say more than that in a day. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Themes generally are at least one phrase long and often have several phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Sidewalk radio was the popular phrase for the word on the street. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And Thyon stood there and spoke that phrase as though it were just lying around, knowable, as common as any pebble picked up off the ground, rather than the rare and precious gem it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One of the stock phrases I had learned from watching these movies was “to die with honour.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The inmate was stripped, his hands were tied to the rings, and then, to use a modern phrase, it was payback time: The keeper he had offended administered blows to his back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never heard the phrase before and I asked her to repeat it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The truth can be brutal. To coin a phrase.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing, except that into the night breeze, into the noise of the river, he had whispered a phrase. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— That was an ancient Maycomb phrase employed by its fragile ladies who sat up with corpses, supposed to be profoundly comforting to the bereaved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Next I spent some time turning over the phrase rearranging the finances. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z In classical Latin, from which the phrase derives, an orbis is usually a flat disc, but sometimes it is an orb or globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Tell me,” he would say, “why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jefferson had used the phrase “the Terrorism of the day” to describe the supercharged atmosphere of the late 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was the genuine tone in Esther’s voice that made the phrase finally begin to sink into my mind and heart. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z One article started with the phrase, “Collagen is a very interesting protein.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Gradually, melodies would enter, Kira recalled; some slow, soaring lyrical phrases, followed by other harsher phrases with a quick pulsating beat. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A quibble arose concerning the phrase “break out.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z A crowd of teenagers in front of the White House, wearing homemade T-shirts that all say the same thing in crooked Sharpie letters, a phrase he recognizes from one of his own emails: HISTORY, HUH? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This gave Liyana a chance to say her favorite new Arabic phrase. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Other examples of modifiers include the underlined words in the phrases walks on four legs, swollen feet, met him on the road to Thebes, and the shepherd whom Oedipus had sent for. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I cycle through the things you’re supposed to say at times like these, the apologies and the sympathy, and I don’t find a single phrase that feels right to me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Yet she detested that “most meaningless of phrases, ‘plain Miss Smith.’” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I should add, my grandchildren, that not only did our drill instructor speak English in a strange way, he also used many colorful words and descriptive phrases that I won’t repeat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, and despite Cassiopeia’s rather adorable attempts to teach it polite party conversation and socially useful phrases, the squirrel was not talking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That meant Emma needed to try both versions, writing out the complete phrase, and then listing, a, b, c, d, e...etc. above each letter. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Let’s take a closer look at some of the more commonly abused words and phrases. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She made a pretext of cutting up my meat, and as she cut, she whispered in bite-sized phrases: "Please...Señorita...Sandi...you must...come to...my house." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It’s not anymore, except in the phrase as though. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The musical forms, phrases, harmonies and the poetic structure reveal a great deal of material apart from the content of the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Words I had not understood, phrases I believed to be the fragments of a poor idiot’s mind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Search after search about lung transplants and lung-function percentages, new combinations and phrasing but always the same idea. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Thus Descartes opted for the least common phrase available to him in French as a translation for lex naturae in order to give his phrase a precise reference to scientific laws, not moral ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Momma wouldn’t talk right then, but later in the evening I found that my violation lay in using the phrase “by the way.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered suddenly another phrase, from somewhere else, almost like it: “It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On Wednesday morning the minivan is gone from the driveway next door, so I busy myself collecting words and phrases for Jason in the blank spaces of my sketchbook. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 2.6: A melodic phrase based on the Siegfried leitmotif , from Wagner's opera The Valkyrie. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Kochi would, in fact, use the phrase in his opening remarks at the meeting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This phrase is no longer forceful. a bug going around. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He reviewed his grammar, taking quick peeks at the phrase book. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was usually a phrase dropped by people adamantly trying to prove they weren’t racist. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes seen as bring to a head, this phrase has its humble beginnings in dermatology. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As she ate she tried to memorize phrases printed at the bottom of the menu, for things like “delicious” and “water” and “check, please.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z McKissick also defended the phrase, terming it an inevitable response to the “dashed hopes and mangled dreams of a people and a result of the ineffectiveness of the nonviolent movement.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Even today, children are taught “Nature abhors a vacuum,” while the teachers don’t really understand where that phrase came from. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I tried to invent or imagine such a stout, snappy phrase. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had read “The Overcoat” too many times to count, certain sentences and phrases embedded in his memory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Something about that phrase—“peak of their careers”—struck his imagination. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z That was when I realized I had to write down the memories and myths and the legends—and even the phrases and jokes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was their storyteller’s voice, both rough and pure, their friend's voice that repeated every fool phrase they threw at him in their language lessons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At some point, Dr. Singh had told Mom not to ask if I was feeling anxious, so she’d stopped phrasing it as a direct question. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z One hand for the ship—the phrase suddenly jumped into his mind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I swear he knew that phrase: “Now there’s a story.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The founder had been careful to select a sturdy building that had good wind and water vibrations, a phrase that meant it was in harmony with the rest of the universe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The song itself was pretty simple and kept repeating phrases. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Nineteen sixty-eight is key. And we don’t need Charles’s library card to finish this phrase.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z That means that when the reader has to handle the complicated phrase, her work in analyzing all the other phrases is done, and she can concentrate her mental energy on that one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The sailor marched us to registration, quietly chanting the phrase Yu-go-slav. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He sang with his whole body, phrasing each verse as naturally as he walked, his voice rising above all the others, blending with that of the lucid horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In a heated discussion with King, Carmichael defended the phrase. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a master of the sudden change of register—a joke, or a phrase of unexpected intimacy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As he spoke the last phrase, he paused meaningfully after each word. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z What the phrase tries to express is the new birth of the world with the awakening of Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought much at the time about what the phrase meant, but it had something to do with metal, with armor, and that’s what I would do, I would steel myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As they wound their way underground, Piper saw old graffiti gouged into the stones: Roman numerals, names and phrases in Italian. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We understand the question by mentally filling the gap with the phrase that was moved out of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One day, as we were leaving for home, he had called out to the chart sergeant at his desk, “Salaam aleikum”—the phrase with which Black Muslims were always greeting each other solemnly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedging an extra phrase into a tree is just one of the ways in which a subject can be separated from its verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The organ turned to a melancholy last hymn, playing too slowly; after four verses, it sighed to silence a phrase or two behind the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We all chanted one of Garvey’s famous phrases together: Up, up, you mighty race. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His old Spanish guitar spat out a series of warm, labyrinthine phrases that wrapped melodic vines around Gordo’s fierce piano hits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z When Lena used the phrase “the word is,” you could take it to the bank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Raven was programmed to reply to user queries only if they used the trigger phrase ‘The Gold-Bug.’ Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The important things to assess are: the song’s meter and then the phrases and sections of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Dufay builds an identifiable melody, nestled among harmonious chords that lead along the arc of a phrase towards a satisfying cadence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Now only a handful of European phrases remained in his memory, scattered words for things like saucers and chairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A robin on a low branch twittered a phrase and listened for another that answered him from beyond the farmhouse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't bother to phrase it as a question. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I learned the phrase “Are you hiring?” and taught Arturo the words. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Positive words and phrases included generously, public-spirited, wise, beneficial, commendable, carefully researched, useful, honorable, good. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “You really should try to train yourself to think in original phrases.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes. If we share our clues, the pictures will create a phrase telling us how to find the alternate exit.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z |
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