He grins, struck by a novel proposition.
A phase transition diagram has been presented as a novel proposition to discern between sol vs gel phases.
Rudy Giuliani's contribution to this tradition is an altogether novel proposition: the best way to help the poor is to reduce crime.
See Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston, 459 U. S. 375, 383 (1983) ("[I]t is hardly a novel proposition that" different portions of the securities laws "prohibit some of the same conduct" (internal quotation marks omitted)).
See, e.g., Cory v. White, 457 U.S. 85, 90 (1982) ("It would be a novel proposition indeed that the Eleventh Amendment does not bar a suit to enjoin the State itself simply because no money judgment is sought").
In the late sixties, however, a lawyer for the Walt Disney Company came up with the novel proposition that film should be considered a tangible property, deserving of an investment tax credit.
Instead of pitching beats to established rappers, he signed to the independent label Definitive Jux and released an instrumental album of his own, then still a novel proposition in hip-hop.
Here is a novel proposition: Henry Darger (1892-1973), the self-taught Chicago recluse who painted big, lurid watercolors of bands of little girls violently persecuted by adult male soldiers, was an art collector.
And in the neckwear department, Jonathan Adler has a novel proposition: two ties, one full size for father, and a matching mini clip-on for son, in festive Greek key, stripe or scooter designs ($150).
It was partly the sense of a novel proposition coming from unfamiliar climes (in blockbuster terms at least) that pushed Blomkamp's debut, District 9, to a superb $210.8m on a $30m budget.
