In her "moments of grace," when Rose is suddenly granted the words she needs, Jenny can't resist pumping her memory.
Granted, the words are hard to miss.
Granted, the words "congressional oversight hearings" aren't particularly sexy--certainly not as alluring as "shock and awe," "insurgency," "counterinsirgency," "airstrikes," and "Hellfire missiles".
Granted, the word Easter does not show up in the bible but is taken from Eastre, an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess of Spring.
Granted, that word has seemingly gained acceptance or at least tolerance in our contemporary culture, but it still offends some people and is inconsistent with the otherwise professional quality of the newscast.
Granted, the word is used of the first five biblical books and of the Hebrew bible as a whole; but it is also used of the mass of other instructions believed to be received by Moses in oral form and later codified in the massive collection of Talmud.
They are no longer primarily prescriptive in the sense of granting "good" words official status while keeping slang and neologisms out.But this does not mean that dictionaries include everything.
But I decline to grant such words power over me.
Should permission be granted, Swift's words will not be free for unauthorised use on a range of commercial products including clothing, toys, stationery, stickers, tattoo transfers, home décor, musical instruments and accessories, jewellery and non-medicated toiletries.
For Mr. Jurosko toils in the world of light opera, a high-talent, low-glamour backwater of the performing arts, where pure singing, rapid-fire recitative skills and comic timing are taken for granted, and the words "percentage of the gross" are never heard.
