Walking with a birder, or for that matter a butterfly watcher or mushroom specialist, is a bit like walking with a child who delights in exercising the newfound power of language and points with satisfaction and pride to each thing or creature.
For the veterans themselves, the payoff is pretty clear: Not only do they gain valuable hard and soft skills in addition to a working knowledge of business language, they also emerge with newfound confidence.
Her newfound fluency in all the park's languages.
Mr. Oz considered his role in bringing a newfound vitality and literary élan to the Hebrew language to be one of his most important achievements.
Mr. Boudin's Up With People prose sounds more than anything like a college admissions essay; it perfects that form's ingratiating, smug but searching tone: "Words seemed insufficient for articulating exactly how my time away had changed me — language skills, a love for travel, newfound confidence, a more complex worldview, a better ability to be self-critical".
Learning languages abroad also helped me develop newfound confidence in myself, for which I am deeply grateful". Delve into the paradoxes of French and Francophone history and culture while exploring the cosmopolitan city of Paris.
Instead, the children spent their days immersed in Chinese culture: studying the language, singing Chinese songs and playing with newfound friends.
Poul Ruders's "Star-Prelude and Love Fugue" (1990) exemplified another lesson of the evening: that the language may be reaching back to earlier times, but that newfound complexities of altered time-schemes, cross-rhythms and opposing meters are anything but old.
No, Lucas isn't Shakespeare; I'm not inclined to throw around the lines as newfound poetic gems, and there's nothing in his direction to throw the language, such as it is, into high relief.
