It has a much richer future than the codified language of treaties". For a moment, he is the angry young man again.
Moreover, a man of my generation, unlike my Dad's, is taught no codified language to signal attraction to a woman in a non-threatening way.
A society in which behaviour is codified, language restricted to impersonal formulas, and the expression of feeling muted, is the province of the novel of manners, and such fiction may be produced as readily in the 20th century as in the era of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen.
It's not a strikingly original trumpet style — as the set drove on, there were glints of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard, and an all-around deference to the codified language of bebop — but Mr. Stafford, 44, has alchemized his influences in a way that feels genuine.
Over the last couple of centuries, however, as print capitalism has codified language, we have become a lot more punctilious about our punctuation.
I think that for me they've had a kind of autobiographical quality, but not in the usual sense — in their more encrypted, codified language.
While the artist professed to despise the codified language of ballet, he was entranced by these court dancers; by the intricacy and delicacy of their hand movements, and the serenity with which they moved.
Anything is art as long as you can justify it using the codified language of academia.
The city recently revised its tree ordinance after 12 years to simplify rules protecting certain species and to codify language on preservation, removal and maintenance.
His grammar of Czech, Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache (1809; "Learning System of the Bohemian Language"), codified the language and brought order to the usage of the literary language that had come to be neglected in the preceding 150 years.
