The mission of most of those making the trip to the Nile — from Herodotus to Harry Burton — was, in the habitual phrase of the scholars, to "throw light" on the impenetrable darkness of the tombs, something the English Burton learned how to do by taking a trip to Hollywood to study floods and spots when he documented the Tutankhamun dig in the nineteen-twenties.
The mission of most of those making the trip to the Nile from Herodotus to Harry Burton was, in the habitual phrase of the scholars, to "throw light" on the impenetrable darkness of the tombs, something the English Burton learned how to do by taking a trip to Hollywood to study floods and spots when he documented the Tutankhamun dig in the nineteen-twenties.
Often the snatches of spoken English that we do hear are habitual phrases or favourite idioms, timeless curses or exclamations.
I suppose that every family has its own habitual toast, a phrase that as all rituals do—sacralizes the ordinary and raises it to a mythic grandeur.
All five stories are laden with Jewish imagery, from the heroine of The English Roses, called Binah, which is Hebrew for understanding, through the use of "everything is for the best" - gam zu le'tova - a saying of a Jewish scholar, nicknamed Nachum Ish Gamzu, because of his habitual use of the phrase.
But the police, on the other hand, say that they use this phrase to describe habitual lawbreakers, and that by focusing on the "right people," they are trying to avoid giving tickets to the construction worker drinking a beer on his way home or the couple strolling through a park that is closed for the night.
Describing himself as "a tactful child -- which is to say a delicate and habitual liar," Robertson improved on the phrase when he went on to say, "I have a great regard for the truth, so much so that I only produce it upon special occasions".
Ms. Proulx writes exceedingly well about her own family's dark history; she finds that words and phrases like "imbecile," "mulatto," "habitual intemperance" and "her mark" often appear in old documents.
In Harlem, while he signed t-shirts with a habitual reference to Philippians 4 13 – wherein lies the phrase "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" – it was clear his vision was more New Testament than Old, more of heavenly skills than the hellish collisions of Gog-and-Magog forwards which mar so much of the modern game.
Ms. Wiles's habitual plucky self-confidence merged triumphantly with supple, musically phrased virtuosic dancing as the ballerina in the fourth movement, in which she was partnered by a bluff Ricardo Torres.
"Congenital liar" was the inflammatory phrase used in this space four years ago to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's habitual departures from the truth.
