Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dictionary defines rape as an "outrageous violation" and a victim as "someone badly used." It is to Olsen's great credit that, in a strangely hypnotic, grieving book, he provides these phrases with a human dimension. "Motiveless malignity" is a fine phrase in Othello; in contemporary life, evil generally has a reason, however perverted. Olsen has tracked it to its source. -By J.D. Reed
...TERM can be abused. What is important is not the term, but the situation within which it is expressed. The listener bears as much civic responsibility as the speaker whenever a potentially offensive word or phrase is uttered; knee-jerk reactions can foster unnecessary hostility on occasions when no disparagement was intended...
Stein, who claims to have coined the phrase "supply-side" economics, derisively calls the theory "the economics of joy." It was never possible, he says, to cut taxes, boost defense spending and lower the budget deficit all at the same time. Moreover, "there had been no radical Reagan revolution. Total taxes and total expenditures were still as large as ever, relative the G.N.P. and there was no prospect of any significant reduction for years ahead...
Sung was been thirty-five years ago in Shanghai to one of China's wealthiest and most aristocratic families. The literal translation of his given Mandarin Chinese name Sung Wang Moon, is "a door in the clouds." It is a phrase which could easily be used to describe the distinct of focus in the designer's clean and sophisticated apparel and accessories...
...prophecy that welcome words were about to come out of my mouth. The tradition of our profession are not all in texts from Plato and Rousseau and Dewey; many of the most important are intangible and unrecorded. The codeword these days is "eye contact," but this cold phrase doesn't capture the intensity and pride which many of us remember from our earliest encounters with learning...