The effect, Catte believes, is that Appalachia is always seen as stuck in some colorless and unchanging past, and populated with — to take Catte's phrase — "decent but damaged people looking for a miracle".
Look up "Pride comes before a fall" in any decent Dictionary of Phrase and Fable reprint next year and you'll find Haitian hurdler Jeffrey Julmis, giving the cameras some classic cool-as-ice posturing before the start of his 110m race – then going head over heels at the first hurdle.
But the "lesser people" statement itself is a decent thought badly phrased, nothing more.I'll repeat part of what I said about Mr Svanberg.
Percy eventually became so identified with the more progressive wing of the party known as the Rockefeller Republicans that "decent Chuck Percy Republicans" became a synonymous phrase.
When we brought Toronto photographer THESUPERMANIAK along to Mad Decent Boat Party, she showed the world that the phrase "if you cast a wide net, you catch a lot of crabs" applied to more than just Deadliest Catch re-runs.
It speaks in everything from his pronouns (even at his most spikily original, the word he settles on most comfortably is 'we') to his habit of truffling for phrases usually turned up only by a decent poet.
Any American administration, especially this one, needs to learn that in paying "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" -- Jefferson's phrase -- America also pays respect to its better self.
This phrase suggests that paying desperately poor people a decent wage is a nice ethical add-on, and a gratifying departure from the norm.
In fact it's a decent rule of thumb: if you read a cringeworthy term or phrase on the OBO, just assume it's being used knowingly.
And he played it in a decent, clear, 1970s-modern mainstream jazz style — not as quicksilver in phrasing or broad in harmony as solos elsewhere in the set by Mr. Terry on saxophone.
