Repetitive, compulsive or ritualised behaviour – involving phrases, gestures and questions – could be caused by dementia.
Neuroscientific explanations – involving phrases such as "prefrontal cortex" and "neural circuitry" – were consistently rated the most convincing, even when the information was pointless and offered no further insight.
I don't know nearly enough Russian to figure out what he's saying, but he's talkative and seems to be giving answers that involve phrases, clauses, and other signs of erudition.
The Supreme Court, you might think, ought to be concerning itself exclusively with matters weighty and arcane -- cases that involve phrases like habeas corpus and ipso facto and novissima verba.
This usually involves phrases along the lines of "and that was just the receptionist!" or, in the case of a popular gag involving a frenzied bout of onanism and a dirty magazine, "and then they threw me out of the newsagent".
This involves phrasing an important evolutionary question in two directions, "How well does a more sophisticated model of protein function explain observed evolutionary patterns?" and conversely, "How well do simple evolutionary statistics describing selective constraint (here dN/dS) describe conservation of function or the opportunity for functional shifts in a pathway?".
One such gag involved the phrase "hanging chad," followed by the sight of a Diebold vote-counting machine.
Gutfeld probably regretted offending Canadian troops and their family members, but he was probably also pleased that his biggest scandal involved the phrase "gorgeous white Capri pants".
Conversations about putting the pair together on screen involved the phrase "sex storm", and while the episode remains resolutely a family show, Kingston admits that an in-joke on set has become "Doctor Ooh".
They were in the category that Curley called "everyone but the person involved" — a phrase that doesn't seem to have struck any of the administrators as absurd, despite its omission of the person truly involved: the child in the shower.
