Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MUCH is it worth to you to be able to read a book? To carry on a conversation? To run along the banks of the Charles in the spring? The average person "of sound mind and body," as the old legal phrase goes, takes a lot for granted...
...meantime, rather than letting the best remain the enemy of the good, the U.S. should concentrate on achieving, and preserving, arms-control measures that are, in that phrase of the Joint Chiefs, modest but useful...
...defining the French in an uncontroversial way. One might paraphrase Antishthenes: One can know such and such a Frenchman, but never Frenchness. As Zeldin puts it, the book's intent is to show "what absurdities follow" when one sums up the French or any other culture in a phrase or epigram
...participants will be chosen for their ability to implement change. As veterans of presidential campaigns, the former presidents are "the people with the most experience in how to phrase messages and attract voter attention...
...first chapters of the book, however, defeat her. She overwrites, trying to dramatize essentially unexciting background information. We find ourselves mired in such phrases as "that she could embrace his flaws was in the fabric of her passion." A best friend of Jean Harris's, elsewhere sympathetically portrayed, has this stereotype forced upon her. "Ever after, she used the same phrase...'Instant take!' she would exult, tossing back her handsome white-blond head and whinnying like the very expensive palomino pony she much resembles." Alexander's efforts to push this initial descriptive segment of the book to artistic heights falls...