Sentence examples for A parlance of from inspiring English sources

The movie Donnie Brasco is a wonderful illustration of a parlance of the street and the whole philosophy of giving your "stamp of approval" for a person by "vouching" for them.

In each episode, the team of five gay men known collectively as the "Fab Five" perform a makeover (in the parlance of the show, a "make-better") on a person, usually a straight man, revamping his wardrobe, redecorating his home and offering advice on grooming, lifestyle and food.

Lena, the sweet-and-sulky heroine of "Beautiful Creatures," the film adapted from the young-adult novel of the same title, is a witch — a caster, in the parlance of her kind — who can, by a glance, shatter glass or summon a tempest or, when the spirit moves her, capture the heart of a hunky young man.

To cite an example from PopTip's blog post, a company could identify "Grand Theft Auto V" as an important topic (in the parlance of Zipline, a "classifier"), and Zipline would show that people who are talking about GTA V are using phrases like "download gta v" and "the day girlfriends lose their friends".

However it may, to use the parlance of a bygone era, blow your mind a bit.

It is right before a checkpoint, which in the parlance of Cirque means a rehearsal attended by the artistic brass, including Mr. Laliberté.

My dad spent 35 years as a meatcutter at a grocery store while my maternal grandmother Grandma Flossie worked her whole life as a housekeeper, or in the parlance of her times, a cleaning lady.

In the parlance of a biologist observer, that roommate "emerges as a dishwashing specialist". The old research methods would be to alter the external cues — the equivalent of removing the dishwashing machine and seeing what happens.

Therefore for every concept c ∈ C such that μ(c) = ∅, φ maps c to a set of instance values in relations, i.e., φ : C → 2 V, where  V is a set of unique values of the form r.A.v in which r is the relation name, and v is a value in column A of r (in the parlance of [ 34], the representation corresponds to r[ A → v]), i.e., → σ A = c (π A (r)) ≠ ∅.

Enough, in fact, that against the odds You Say You Want a Revolution is, in the parlance of the era, quite a trip.

Despite the protestations of conservation groups, the government has also organized the shootings — "samplings," in official parlance — of a handful of wolves.