In my day (the customary phrase to introduce gasbag alumni reminiscences), the hoopsters played in a not-so-glorified gym with the poetic name of the Indoor Athletic Building.
They were greeted the customary phrase; which, before subduing him, translated by the affluent Sherman as simply, "He's going to kick our ass!" Written with optional macrons:.
The texture of the writing feels steadily satisfying, though this time out Hollinghurst seems to ration his customary bravura phrasing.
This paper is not a review, but a commentary; given that Africa is a vast and variegated continent, we have concentrated on its tropical area – or, as from a phrase customary during the last century, Africa 'south of the Sahara and north of the Zambesi'.
The customary way of phrasing this would be "Can you imagine Ed Miliband on the doorstep of Downing Street?" But I've come up with an alternative formulation.
He felt the lettering particularly successful, as two different sizes are used, and although all three phrases customary on American coinage are present ("Liberty", "In God We Trust", and "E Pluribus Unum"), the "placing is so skillfully handled that it seems hard to realize all three ... inscriptions are used".
WHEN referring to the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, it is now — and has been for some time — customary to affix the phrase "world's oldest active filmmaker".
"He is the single most influential director of his generation," Peter Bogdanovich said, during an event at MOMA, in 2012, honoring the director, by which time it was customary to add the phrase "for better or worse".
Mr. Farrar was the natural here: his unscrubbed voice, and the customary slouch in his phrasing, made the songs he sang feel closer to a spirit of mordant remorse.
Ms. Damrau sang with her customary sensitivity and control, elegantly phrasing her pianissimo high notes.
I say line, because it was not a spoken remark but a phrase contained in the customary written note from the outgoing chief secretary to the incoming one, who happened – for what turned out to be a very short time – to be the Liberal Democrat David Laws.
