In rehearsal, Eiko affectionately teased Ms. Halprin, telling her not to think about doing a phrase of movement to the right and then the left.
Education is about "freeing the powers," a phrase of Jane Addams.
I've written about this before, it turns out, but doing some of the media rounds I found myself thinking once again about a favorite phrase of Richard Dawkin's: the "argument from personal incredulity".
This article was amended on 24 July 2012 to correct the wording of a phrase about the expansion of three organisations' work in Africa to that used in the final version of the report.
They did talk about sense (sensus), about the thought or content (sententia) of a phrase, and about the force of a word (vis verbi), and they often used the word 'significatio' itself along with its cognates quite widely.
Ms. Falco talked about the "meta-feeling," a pet phrase of one of their old professors.
The one point the governors challenged me on was whether the name "Campbell" was represented in the notes and I told them that it was, next to a phrase about transformation of the dossier.
Lest anyone think he was talking only about Mr. Clinton, he appropriated an unfortunate phrase of Mr. Gore's and turned it against him.
And when the independent recollections of two old political hands jibe about the source of a phrase, that causes etymologists to say -- Bingo!
In an early language column, speculating about the origin of a phrase, he says: "The expression may be bottomed on …." I'm sorry.
