The appearance of words in art is more than just decorative experimentation.
A later search of Google Ngram Viewer, which charts the appearance of words and phrases in books, supported my suspicion.
The first was the emergence of an almost religious conception of business, exemplified by the appearance of words such as "mission," "vision" and "values" in the corporate lexicon.
Deborah Lipp, who runs the "Mad Men" fan blog Basket of Kisses with her sister Roberta, has dispelled fans' concerns about the appearance of words like intense, lifestyle, self-worth, regroup and recon.
In the invention, an Internet browser automatically marks Web pages according to predetermined criteria like the amount of time a user spends on a page or the appearance of words in the page that match keywords chosen by the user.
In early 2013 Preussler was at the centre of a controversy concerning the appearance of words such as neger (Negro) in Die kleine Hexe; although these words were commonly used at the time of the book's original publication, their removal from modern editions (after pressure from readers concerned about the use of such racially charged terms) triggered public debate over censorship.
It also confirms his appraisal of his own technique; in a 1997 letter to David Foster Wallace, he wrote that his prose is characterized by "a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations". (DeLillo saved a copy of the letter).
The articles cited examples from Not One-Off Britishisms, where Mr. Yagoda (a New York Times contributor) often charts the popularity of terms using Google's Ngram Viewer, which tracks the appearance of words or phrases year by year in millions of books.
We analyze the appearance of words in their titles.
Hutto conflates a proximate cause of the appearance of words with a distal one, and does not see that there is a further fact to be explained.
The complete representational explanation has a different phenomenon to explain: not just the appearance of pixels on the screen but also the appearance of words qua meaningful bits on the screen.
