Spontaneity — the seeming opposite of being well rehearsed — was a watchword of such occasions; so was serendipity.
She told a packed assembly chamber she was "tired of Stormont being a watchword for arguing and bickering.
The desperate presumption is that the shortfall will be made up for by Iraqi troops — the same troops whose training has been a watchword of hope and a byword of failure these last agonizing four years.
Consistency has never exactly been a watchword of Dutch cricket.
Instead, he referred so often to "the people" that it seems destined to become a watchword of his tenure.
Spall invokes JMW Turner, the artist he lately played, slathering on determiners like layers of paint ("accretion" is a watchword).
McCarthyism became a watchword of the times, referring to the blacklisting, guilt-by-inference, and harassment tactics that the senator used.
This kind of reindustrialisation is unlikely, primarily because "total and complete opposition to anything like this has been a watchword of UK governments for 30 years".
The French department wrote, " 'Construisez vite, construisez grand'Buildild fast, build big'), a watchword of Louis XIV's administration, comes back to haunt us".
"Privacy" remained a watchword of the reproductive-rights movement — and abortion became more hidden, and more difficult to procure — but L.G.B.T. activists insisted on the importance and the urgency of visibility, of pride, and of coming out.
