The phrase "a phrase at once" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is being described or expressed immediately or simultaneously.
Example: "The poet crafted a phrase at once beautiful and haunting, capturing the essence of loss."
Alternatives: "a phrase simultaneously" or "a phrase instantly".
The phrase at once recalls the millions of capacitors Sprague produced and presents an irony that the factory's former employees can surely appreciate just as much as, if not more than, the SoHo crowd mass moca hopes to attract.
Begins with Phrase: only matches a phrase at the beginning of attributes.
When the piece opened with a clanking burst of percussion and pianos, for example, the bride fretted about the tresses of her hair in phrases at once agitated and elegiac.
The answer, of course, is that the two-man board and lack of independent directors has been exposed by this episode as – to coin a phrase once levelled with relish at the Football Association – "not fit for purpose".
While attending presentations last week at the Columbia Journalism School and at the Americas Society, I kept recalling a phrase that was once used by "reformers".
Sadly, a majority of those in the widowed community have heard this phrase at least once during their Healing Journeys.
The sad reality is that a large majority of people coping with loss or life-challenge have heard this phrase at least once during the Healing Journey.
Both of these paragraphs are full of delightfully constructed phrases that at once tantalize with the possibility of discovery and cover for potential informational deficiencies.
Instead of trying to learn a whole song at once, break the song into phrases and practice each phrase.
Tall, handsome, cultured, with a rhetorical style at once impassioned and beautifully phrased, Sobchak could have -- and in the opinion of many, including himself, should have -- been Russia's first president.
