The friend recalled, "He was excited about every song, stopping to repeat, again and again, phrases and chords he particularly fancied … filling the room with etudes of ecstasy, sentimental songs and rocking riffs.
This prince who remains a frog — for he recalls the ghastly, slimed shape that only recently enclosed him, and understands the unreckonable source that has worked his brave metamorphosis — offers his skittish would-be bride the perfect reassurance, again phrased with the quietness of one of Graves's masterly off-rhymes: "What then shall we do now?" she asked her lover.
Again, the phrase of attribution throws us off track.
It is "never again," the phrase we frequently associate with the Holocaust, with the war against genocide.
Once again, the phrase that comes to mind is Milton Friedman's: socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the rest.
"And then I never saw him again": this phrase recurs with eerie frequency in the work of the Chilean-born writer Roberto Bolaño, who died four years ago, in Barcelona, at the age of fifty.
I'll miss him, although I'll be happy to never ever hear again the phrase 'you can't bowl on Graeme Smith's pads.' Cheers Biff, thanks for the sodding memories".
Wintry mix is a mix, wintry, of any of the above forms of precipitation, but — and here again the phrase is deceptive — they are not necessarily mixed together in the way of mixed drinks or mixed nuts or mixed media.
Again, a phrase like this can come off as dismissive.
Come again?" This phrase is a tactful warning shot, and let's you know you are treading on dangerous ground.
