We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil the phrase itself seems antique as worthy of genuine respect.He's definitely on to something, though I think this development deserves a somewhat subtler analysis than Mr Dionne's.
Let's be honest; the phrase "food coma" is way too dramatic for what's really going on here, and that's why the Italians -- who are no stranger to hearty meals -- have bested us with this quality word.
Latching onto an understandably attractive adjective, he three times used the phrase "honest broker" to describe the proper role for the United States in Middle Eastern peace negotiations.
Biologists use the phrase "honest signals" in a statistical sense.
As I wrote in the memo I created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood the phrase "honest loyalty" differently, but I decided it wouldn't be productive to push it further.
She gives an intensely expressive and musically honest performance, letting phrases fly with bright, soaring sound and shaping passages with pianissimo tenderness.
In giving new meaning to the phrase brutally honest, this season matched the awe-inspiring artistry of the first.
Yet Blodgett in person exhibits a disarming modesty and aw-shucksness; phrases like "honest to goodness" pepper his speech.
He kept repeating the phrase "to be honest with you" as a verbal crutch.
With fashion in a deep retail rut, and other designers suddenly forced to make dubious claims about "a natural and honest chic" (to use a phrase from the Yves Saint Laurent show notes), Chanel's sense of élan is remarkable.
