I'm just trying to understand the Christ event -- the crucifixion and resurrection in the context of Jesus' life and teachings as a Jew who never claimed to be anything but "the son of man," a term that is not understandable except in the context of the time when that term (Aramaic bein enosh) simply meant "a human being" and was in common usage.
This is social expressiveness on the frontier before the word espresso was in common usage.
Many words and phrases that are in common usage today can trace their origins back to Shakespeare, so feel free to invent words and create new phrases.
"It undoubtedly was a word that was in common usage, having to do with feeling very strong emotion, in this case a very strong need for comfort," Bloom said.
It is likelier to be far harder in the US for the defendant to argue that the word Kraftwerk is in common usage as a simple description of its product.
Burton, with only two much smaller-scale pictures to his name (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice) had the mother of all makeover jobs on his hands, a reboot in the days before that word was in common usage.
The media frequently make unfounded and exaggerated links between a diagnosis of schizophrenia and violent behaviour, while the bastardisation of the term "schizo" is in common usage as a particularly demeaning insult.
While instruments had been in common usage throughout the Middle Ages, their function was primarily to double or to substitute for voices in vocal polyphonic music or to provide music for dancing.
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were "teen-agers" — a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later — a new, recognizable franchise.
The new edition also dusts off and polishes a couple of terms – staycation (a holiday spent in one's home country), national treasure (someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, normally Judi Dench or Stephen Fry) – that feel as though they have been in common usage for some while.
