Every song in "No Future" boils down to one or two lean riffs — she sounds like she's spent her 10,000 hours with Wire's first two singles and the Buzzcocks' first three — and she has carved her yelps and commands into sharp, sawed-off phrasing, mixed down in the audio smog.
In the clever process, he stretches his thrills with mixed clichés, idiosyncratic phrases (can people "go faint at the knees"?) and witless dialogue whaleboned with "he retorted stiffly" and the like".
Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta), an important presence in Delhi, paper the city with stickers in which official commands and warnings found in public places are mixed with advertising phrases to suggest the political, social and economic dimensions of civic control.
"The phrase mixed emotions, I think I understood it for the first time, because there was a period where I didn't like him".
A tremendous maker of phrases, she mixed irony and sympathy in equal measure.
"Mixed reviews" is a phrase like "creative differences" or "of unknown origin"; it's what the government tells the widow.
Heal observes: "in the early two or three days of a switch the victim, asked to indicate what he meant by 'water'; would specify a mixed bag by offering phrases such as 'what I had a bath in last week'whathat is in this glass right now', 'what, in its frozen form, I skated on last winter', 'what comes out of that tap over there', etc".
In that essay, Orwell warned against language that, by virtue of its clumsiness, defended the indefensible: prefab phrases, equivocations, mixed metaphors, euphemisms, vague generalities -- the kind of thing an old college professor of mine used to circle and write "HS" next to: Horseshit.
The Times gave its debut a mixed review -- a phrase which Algonquin Round Table Icon, the once again alive and kicking playwright George S. Kaufman, defined as "good and rotten" -- so you can imagine everyone's ecstasy at the glowing you-name-it-and-they-loved-it reviews which the producers flaunted to promote ticket sales in a two-page ad in the following Sunday's Times Arts Section!
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, March 23 , 1946P. 19 Comment on the phrase "mixed-up" used in this case by a lady, in describing the state of the mind of a particular person, but a phrase heard often in the past year or two.
