But doesn't a reluctance to thank others frequently grant the word a new sanctity?
Granted, the word Easter does not show up in the bible but is taken from Eastre, an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess of Spring.
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.
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".
Milosz's teaching was that history was no more to be granted the last word.
Andrew Scott's Moriarty and Amanda Abbington's Mary Watson (granted the last word) also featured prominently, despite both their characters having died.
This was, after all, Duckworth-Lewis: know-alls of the rain break, the eminent mathematicians who have been granted the last word in cricketing what-might-have-been since the institution of their system for deciding incomplete matches by the International Cricket Council in 1996.
It is not clear, however, why physiologists should be granted the last word on a topic like this, and, even if it were agreed that they should be, the correlations so far established between mental occurrences and states of the brain are at best sketchy and incomplete.
