What elevates "Homo Politicus" above the level of mimicry are Mr. Milbank's bone-dry phrasing and keen instinct for the finishing stroke.
Dry-Phrase The yellow product was dried under vacuum.
He is a fournisseur, in the dry French phrase — a supplier — though what he supplies may be the most memorable part of a design.
That dry sounding phrase, "falling short of targets," means dead women and children.
The necessity of her genius, reinforced by reading her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights, modified this restrictive self-discipline, and, though there is plenty of satire and dry, direct phrasing in Jane Eyre, its success was the fiery conviction with which it presented a thinking, feeling woman, craving love but able to renounce it at the call of impassioned self-respect and moral conviction.
Although some of Brahms's long string lines were played with an ardent Romantic sweep, others were recast with a drier, nonlegato phrasing that seemed novel but not entirely persuasive.
She said she hoped it would be like "watching paint dry," repeating a phrase used by Patrick Harker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Irate customer at nearby table repeatedly uses phrase "dry-cleaning bill" when arguing with server over accidental spill, even though it was a glass of water and customer is wearing tank top and cargo shorts.
The same went for Mr. Turner, playing dry and keening phrases in the high registers, and Mr. Loueke, strumming percussively and running his acoustic guitar through a wah-wah pedal.
It is hard to believe that a phrase as dry as "epistemic closure" could get anyone excited, but the term has sparked a heated argument among conservatives in recent weeks about their movement's intellectual health.
Unlike me, Saunders calculated that all those Edwardian children whom Nesbit brought to life so vividly – with their knickerbockers and tweed, their altercations with housemaids and their endearing turns of phrase ("Do dry up, Cyril!") – were precisely, and tragically, the right age to be dragged into the first world war.
