The dances in "The Muir" show Morris's habitual word-painting, a sort of advanced form of itsy-bitsy spider.
The habitual words we use serve as seeds for what we embody now and in the future, individually and collectively.
Jefferson's use of the word "habitual" is telling.
In other words, if habitual multitaskers are interrupted by a colleague, it takes them longer to settle back into what they were doing.
An experienced writer is able to rely on the power of his habitual choices of sounds, words, and syntactic patterns to convey his personality or fundamental outlook.
The concern is not only about the penalty-seekers, though, it is about those who dive and shriek and twist and protest and wave imaginary cards - in other words, the habitual cheats whose squealing and faking renders the job of the referee well nigh impossible.
Audience — habitual, fervent, powered by word-of-mouth — builds value and drives all other successes: Ad dollars, box office sales, subscriptions, downloads, etc.
In October, a judge threw out the murder conviction of Susan Mellen, saying that she was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years based on the word of a habitual liar and adding that "the criminal justice system failed".
"Just as most men, both speakers and writers, make use of habitual modes of expression, favorite words or sayings, that they employ involuntarily, even inappropriately, so too every painter has his own peculiarities that escape him without his being aware," Morelli wrote.
Some changes in the meaning of words are caused by their habitual use in particular contexts.
The task is to inhibit an over-learned, habitual response (i.e., reading color words) in favor of an unusual, novel requirement (i.e., naming incongruously printed colors of color words).
