It's all pretty good, basically, and we've got some fresh phrases in the theme entries that are also familiar.
But the full set is so rich and varied that in a performance as vital as the one Juilliard Baroque gave on Sunday, the inescapable familiarity of the music melts away as a listener's attention is drawn to fresh phrasing ideas or the sheer virtuosity that individual players bring to their tasks.
A recent recording of the Bach Concertos, with Andrew Manze and the Academy of Ancient Music, on the Harmonia Mundi label, was richly endowed with fresh phrasing ideas and an irresistible energy, as were collaborations with Mr. Manze on the Biber "Rosary" Sonatas and works by Corelli and Handel.
These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, "contain a few fresh phrases of his own, [but] are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious".
The word now seems so over-used that we all long for a new phrase or a fresh definition that would make 'luxe' seem more meaningful.
Has he spent this whole time just trying to come up with a fresh rhetorical phrase?
Let's hear more about Mr. Schoenholz's constructing experiment: At some point I ran across a New York Times crossword by Tyler Hinman, where he used a set of five homophones as clues for fresh, longer phrases.
Least of all, as the novel's publicists claim with their typically fresh turn of phrase, is it "darkly comic".
But he called Sarah Palin "a breath of fresh air," a phrase echoed by so many parishioners that you could almost feel the wind whooshing through the basement.
But be aware that sometimes, the fresh turn of phrase that just popped into your head occurred to you so readily because you've already seen it a dozen times this week.
