He chose commonplace, one-syllable words that had what he described as "a certain comedic value".
One year, the party had somehow been announced from the bandstand at the local bar, and pretty much everybody in town (or at least all the members of what my mother might describe as "a certain element" and my father refers to simply as "riffraff") showed up.
An aesthetic essence is described as "a certain composition of sense or qualia" (1946, 188) and as a "qualitatively identical content" (1946, 18).
By this is meant not scientific knowledge in the modern sense of a body of theory based on the experimental testing of hypotheses, but rather an understanding of the reason why a given fact obtains (knowledge propter quid), as opposed to knowledge simply that the fact does obtain (knowledge quia), what might be described as a certain kind of explanatory knowledge.
In the Gesta Hungarorum Gelou is described as "a certain Vlach" and "prince of the Vlachs", indicating that the Vlachs were considered the dominant Transylvanian population.
Frank is less of a departure for him than it looks, he says, especially in terms of the tone, which he describes as "a celebration of a certain kind of delicate slapstick, which I think has massive potential to express emotion.
Has a certain disability: The to-be-chosen character was described as having a certain disability, for instance, "Roommate B is an 18-year-old business major and is blind".
Every quantum in the Universe — a structure with a non-zero energy to it — can be described as containing a certain amount of energy.
True to their genre, Dracula and Frankenstein capitalize on what Noël Carroll describes as an innate human abhorrence of certain kinds of category transgression.
