I am fed up with television companies constantly kowtowing to a small number of lemon-faced puritans who want to believe that no one uses language that would have been the everyday parlance of the rustics, and with which Shakespeare larded his plays in order to bring the high-flown sentiments and language down to earth.
The paddle, as it is termed in slave-beating parlance, or at least the one with which I first became acquainted, and of which I now speak, was a piece of hardwood board, 18 or 20 inches long, moulded to the shape of an old-fashioned pudding stick, or ordinary oar.
She writes and directs romantic comedies with strong, prickly female leads who are not, in the parlance of the moment, "likable," but the hand with which she furnishes them with foibles is light.
But some critics say an unintended consequence is the ease with which doctors and hospitals can upcode — industry parlance for seeking a higher rate of reimbursement than is justified.
Agencies in San Francisco are benefiting from a trend in which marketers that once used only agencies with which they had defined relationships on accounts — agencies of record, in industry parlance — are handing out creative assignments to other shops, Mr. Vallee said.
The unapologetic idealism he reveals at the end of "Absolute Friends" and the intemperate tone with which he expresses it may startle some of his faithful readers, but it shouldn't, because emotionally he's always cast his lot with the misfits and the dreamers, even while recording the exploits of those who are, in parlance of the public school, good at games.
With today's knowledge, in the parlance used in this article, we would elevate the status of the latter two simulations to computations, because of the guaranteed accuracy with which each calculation reproduces the model.
In philosophical parlance, S* is a measuring instrument for A just in case there is some observable feature of S* which tracks or indicates the A-values of systems with which it interacts in an appropriate way.
It was the day – the day-night, to use the correct one-day parlance – on which an international cricketer emerged.
Cases like this one are familiar from everyday parlance, in which we often encounter attributions of intentional states to corporations or governments.
