Since it's not exactly difficult to think of a train of words beginning with certain letters, the setter will often up his or her game and offer a phrase that gives extra value through wit, charm or appositeness.
The Bowlingual would offer a phrase to let you know.
His long, disjointed emails occasionally offer a phrase or thought that's so true you have to stop reading.
Shakespeare, who saw Magna Carta not as a triumph for liberty but rather as a shameful attempt to weaken the monarchy, offered a phrase for it in his play King John: "So foul a sky shall not clear without a storm".
Any page might offer a bastardized phrase from Genesis, Shakespeare and Matthew Arnold, while criticizing Christianity, condemning American capitalism and warning of the climate apocalypse.
One player picks a card and offers up a phrase ("But before I kill you, Mr. Bond, I must show you ____").
Mr. Lhota offered a quotable phrase ("This tsunami of sleaze has to end") as well as proposals for ethics reform.
He offered a few phrases of gratitude in well-practiced Russian, then delivered an endearingly rambling speech about "200 years of friendship between Russia and America," starting with an exchange of warm letters between President Thomas Jefferson and Czar Alexander I.
And in a promising preview of their performance tonight at Tanglewood, the violinist Glenn Dicterow and the cellist Carter Brey offered a richly phrased performance of the finale from the Brahms Double Concerto.
Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School offers a useful phrase to describe the point where pharmacogenetics and personalised medicine meet: "precision medicine".A new Moore's lawPurists like Dr Venter sniff that the technology for reading SNPs is not good enough for serious applications like medicine, never mind how cheap it gets: only reliable full-genome scans will do.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency offers a pithy phrase about ozone's effects: "Good up high — bad nearby".
