It was a story writ large across the whole city – leaves piled up knee-deep on the sidewalk, restaurant tables uncleared and water glasses un-refilled.
Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat!" Even your granddad might not remember this obscure western.
Auden called Iago 'The Great Improviser,' and the hanky gave him the idea for his deception: " 'Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.' " It was a moment in and out of the play.
It's a story writ large about coming to grips with power: accepting it, demanding it, wielding it wisely.
"Come off it!" is a phrase writ large – a warning against the notion of taking patriotism too seriously.
It is a powerful writ, summed up by Lord Kerr, who gave the leading judgment, in two pithy sentences: "If your detention cannot be shown to be lawful, you are entitled, without more, to have that unlawful detention brought to an end by obtaining a writ of habeas corpus.
Designed by Tony Chi as part of a ninety-million-dollar renovation, it's a bachelor pad writ large: walls of mirrors, divided into angled grids, like the peel of a disco ball; leather everywhere, even on the tabletops, in various shades of latte; and, flanked by half-stocked bookshelves, a minimalist gas fireplace in which a long ripple of flame seems to leap straight from stone.
It is a personal tragedy writ large, one shared across thousands of individual families, stories of separation and degradation of Americans and legal residents of America alike.
What is implicit at J. Crew (no logos) and discreet at Brooks (a minute insignia of a sheep suspended limply from a ribbon, as if it were a sick piñata) is writ large at Ralph Lauren, where an entitled-looking polo player astride a pony, the symbol sometimes three inches tall, is stitched on the bosom region of shirts and knits (polo shirt, $75).
