Tolstoy, even though he was deep into his final holy-moralist phrase, didn't quite know what to do with Nekhlyudov at the end of "Resurrection".
Using statistical pattern-matching, Watson, for example, recognized that the phrase "holy city" was more likely to be St.
Indeed, several generations of Yankee fans remember him best for his catch phrase "Holy Cow!" Rizzuto was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1994.
Looking for a neutral name for the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, he chooses "Holy Land," a phrase from Christian tradition.
Tavener was branded a "holy minimalist", a phrase that condemned some of his more accessible choral music to collections of "Relaxing Classics", as if what he was doing as a composer was cynically tapping into cheap, superficial New-Ageism.
In peace-talk terms, the phrase "holy basin" has come to be understood to encompass the entirety of the walled Old City -- including the Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters as well as the Temple Mount, topped by the Aksa Mosque complex, and the small Arab communities nestled among the religious and archaeological sites just outside the walls.
The Houston Astros announced the death of their longtime play-by-play man, known for using the phrase "Holy Toledo".
Our words come rushing out in multiple languages — "Bello!" "Mooi!" "Holy crud!" — with each phrase expressing the same sense of awe.
But his biggest success was in Everybody Loves Raymond, as the hero's interfering father whose catch phrase was "Holy Crap!" In 1999, Boyle suffered a heart attack on the set of the hit show, and had emergency angioplasty surgery.
The phone companies wanted voice-based automated calling, and the computer companies wanted a voice-based computer interface and automated dictation, which was a "holy grail project" (a favorite phrase of the industry).
