Word: phrase
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...promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase: "less bossiness, more incentives," explaining, "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness and intrusion of all kinds...
...moviegoer I'm less certain about the movie's effectiveness. Schnabel has an alert, imaginative and unsentimental cinematic eye. He does everything he can to involve us in Jean-Do's struggle against stasis, which is perhaps less a "triumph of the human spirit," a fatuous phrase that ought to be banned from critical discourse, than it is a triumph of the human ego. This is all right with me - I don't think anything worthwhile is created without egotism pushing the effort along and it is good to see it functioning in such extreme circumstances. But still, somewhat shame...
...repeats a favorite phrase he got from Rev. Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church...
Hyman Minsky, an academic economist who died in relative obscurity in 1996 but is now the talk of Wall Street, had a colorful phrase to describe such people: "Ponzi borrowers," he called them, after the early 20th century pyramid-scheme perpetrator Charles Ponzi. Minsky argued that once banks got so sloppy that they handed out Ponzi loans, a financial crisis was inevitable...
...Dark Materials--the phrase comes from Milton's Paradise Lost--takes place in a glinting, shadowy, clockwork version of Edwardian England, with some (very) notable differences. Every human in Pullman's world has a daemon, a kind of talking spirit-animal that goes wherever he or she goes. "They're able to talk to their daemons, much like talking to yourself," Pullman explains over breakfast at his publisher's offices in New York City. "Like having a conversation with your conscience or your memory." In Pullman's world, the church has evolved into a sinister totalitarian bureaucracy called the Magisterium...