But this seems to us a time to take Mr. Bush at his harmonious word.
Sometimes, just as we get neologisms by borrowing words from them note how the Chinese "feng shui" is becoming a general English-language word for harmonious furniture arrangement they take words from us (Russians now can say fakapirovat' for "to mess up"; I'll leave you to figure out the source, with the hint that -irovat' is just a suffix).
Mr Hu also adopted the word "harmonious", sprinkling speeches with references to China's pursuit of a "harmonious world" and a "harmonious society".The results have been mixed.
The word harmonious doesn't apply to many big-name wines these days, but it can be used to describe quite a few of the wines from the Washington vineyards.
It makes for a harmonious arrangement of words and sounds.
For example, there are phonological rules that will account for the variations in the placement of stress and the alternations of vowel quality that occur in sets of words such as harmOny, harmOnic, harmOnious and melOdy, melOdic, melOdious.
These poems became the basis for a series of manuscript books (1918), their pages covered with a picturesque and harmonious mix of transrational words (i.e., words chosen for their sound and appearance rather than for their meaning) and abstract shapes.
"The giant factories, the overcrowded metropolises, the centralised and monolithic states, the mass parties... are without a doubt the leviathans of our time, also destined to disappear to leave room for forms of life that are more agile, more harmonious and, in one word, more human," Olivetti concluded in Citta dell'Uomo.
They've created, in their own words, a "harmonious and efficient system" for the filing of lawsuits.
But the word "cosmos" means harmonious order, and a planetarium can suggest the immensity and grandeur of the cosmos only by first providing a glimpse of that order.
The negotiations, in Wallace's words, "were very harmonious and productive".
