Word: dicta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tonal mass," "plastic power," went away well content that if they had not passed the final dicta on Manship, they had, at least, put marble into words. The attendants at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, hearing these phrases, as indeed they were often expressly intended to, were not guilty of visible leers. They had been trained by long service to realize that loose verbiage, when applied to beauty in bronze and stone, is not necessarily an evidence of slovenly culture. They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients...
...Manhattan, he denied that he was going to confer with British Premier MacDonald on Anglo-Mexican relations. Among his dicta: "The impression that I do not feel kindly toward Americans in Mexico rests upon lies spread maliciously by my political enemies and people interested. The real people of Mexico and the Government consider me a real friend of America...
What were the old leaders of the German Imperial Army doing? The answer was soon forthcoming. The ex-Crown Prince, Field Marshals von Hindenburg and von Mackensen, Generals von Ludendorff and von Kluck celebrated the day by delivering themselves of mighty dicta to the German people...
...policy of the Herriot Government, as shown by the past week's dicta, does not depart widely in substance from that pursued by the Poincaré Administration, which, having followed an arbitrary policy in foreign and domestic affairs, was at length to display unmistakable moderation. The spirit of the policy to be followed by Premier Herriot and his colleagues is by all odds more conciliatory than any that has been shown in France since the days of Premier Briand (1921). In so far as this spirit of conciliation is concerned, the Herriot policies diverge considerably from those...
...Pierle has never analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. The statements attributed to him were merely obiter dicta made by him in an ethical talk to a college club...