Lord, Lord, Lord!" She flailed her arms.
It was a misuse of language, Lord Justice Brown said,to describe the magistrates' campaign as being for "political ends", or their approach to Mr Berlusconi as one of political persecution...the magistracy are demonstrating...an even-handedness in dealing equally with the politicians of all political parties.
It was a huge hit, proving to Tynan that Simpson was no "flash in the pen, but a true lord of language, capable of using words with the sublime, outrageous authority of Humpty Dumpty".
You get the sense that Shakespeare, the lord of language, viewed music with narrowed eyes, as if sizing up a rival nation.
It invents a new language, Na'vi, as Lord of the Rings did, although mercifully I doubt this one can be spoken by humans, even teenage humans.
However, there is no doubt that Wilde, the self-dubbed "lord of language", turns his awful humiliation to triumph in the Ballad, and attains a new poetic and moral stature.
"Eh?" and even "fuckin' eh!" but the rest of that fake language is like Little Lord fuckin' Fauntleroy talking in a fuckin' poor-guy British accent so he can give "m'lady" some laughs at some fancy ball with a big chicken and gold.
The episode's title, "Maranatha", is an Aramaic language word translated as "our lord has come" or "come, our lord"; the word is found in the biblical First Epistle to the Corinthians and is believed to have been used as a greeting among early Christians.
"Joyce is a lord of the language," he said.
Dear Sir: During my senior year in college, a professor accused our small class of a topology reading seminar of trying to lord power through language.
