Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did. '
I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know. ' It's terribly embarrassing.
. . . people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation. . . And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
A truce to idle phrases!
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too. . . as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.