More likely, bringing tobacco further into ratings decisions will create new opportunities for ambiguity and confusion, since it seems unlikely that smoking will be any different from any other vice, dubious practice or habit of speech.
In 1950 she translated and adapted André Roussin's play La petite hutte ("The Little Hut"), in preparation for its successful West End début in August, The Timess critic noted the "habit of speech at once colloquial and unexpected which instantly declares itself the creation of Miss Mitford".
Its defining feature is that it adopts the habits of speech - and very idiosyncratic habits they are, too - of Vernon Gregory Little.
He secretly noted his fellows' habits of speech and manner, storing them for later use in his novels and the TV series The Glittering Prizes.
And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
There is a word used by academic critics for a first-person narration that adopts the habits of speech: skaz.
That is the question every period movie contemplates and seeks to answer by means of historically appropriate props, costumes and habits of speech.
It imitates his habits of speech, including the rhymes and songs, the puns and refrains, that have become the verbal currency of mother and son.
Graham Swift grew up in south London, and presumably knows the local habits and speech patterns better than – say – Martin Amis knows Lionel Asbo's.
Courtesy suggests that such appeals be taken seriously; however, habits of speech and sociological usage tend to predominate, and despite their objections these groups are usually included in the Protestant cluster.
He also has an ability to do minor characters briskly but vividly; a pompous banker with a sexual secret is nailed through his habits of speech, dress and drinking.
