As grammarist.com points out somewhat tartly: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
As grammarist.com points out: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
Occasionally weak phrases disrupt the poems – "the yellowed teeth of time", "gristle, roaring with calories", horses that "run like mad things" – but for the most part the language is precise and direct, the poems' revelations understated and unsentimental.
Dr. Lukash advocated for the weaker phrase, "reasonable probability".
The university now must answer for its failure to protect the children Sandusky abused, in some cases years after it had the warning signs it needed — if that's not too weak a phrase for one of its employees saying that he saw a boy being raped in its team's locker room.
But she had, he says, "the terrible strength of the weak"—a phrase he knows he read somewhere but can't place.
Phrase-related processing showed only a weak trend in the same direction (peak activation in −54 4 −2, cluster size 17 voxels).
A weak recommendation indicated a less clear trade-off or weaker evidence; the phrase "We suggest…" was then used.
A weak recommendation indicated a less clear trade-off or weaker evidence; the phrase " We suggest…" was then used.
To call out the extinction of art is a weak move; an easy way out; an unfortunate, misplaced point between two phrases.
