Word: phrase
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...White House dropped the phrase 'war on terror' ... when polls showed no one thought we were winning it. They think they know how to make it more popular. They're going to stop calling it 'war on terror' and start calling it Shrek 3." --ARGUS HAMILTON, comedian and columnist
Observe the phrase “your inconsolable artist,” for example, which here has been declined enough to constitute linguistic torture under several international conventions (though, one must add, not necessarily under domestic ones). Here are the 6 cases, all of them troublesome...
...known to moonlight (on the violin) with a swing band. She can handle the warhorses of the repertoire--she just recorded Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with the London Philharmonic--but she also champions living American composers like Philip Glass. She can even be heard, on occasion, to utter the phrase way cool. "There's this whole archetypal image of what a conductor is, this inaccessible person with an accent and an ascot," Alsop says. "This is the age of collaboration rather than autocracy...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
...knew of Wilson's mission or had been briefed by him. Furthermore, had Rove intended for Cooper to circulate any information about Wilson's wife, "he certainly would not have extracted a promise that the discussions were super double secret," Luskin notes with a laugh, referring to Cooper's phrase...