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(That's easily the best soundbite of the debate so far. The old phrase-master has done it again).
It seems pathetic to take the most powerful of all artist-moralists, an artist who needs no apology or explanation and for whom the deadening phrase "old master" seems utterly inappropriate, and make these sterile simulacra, these crass copies.
He becomes, in Tom Wolfe's phrase, a "Master of the Universe" -and takes both pride and immense and infectious delight in all the perks that come with that exalted state: the money, the apartment, the clothes, the meals, the girlfriends, the rich and important connections.
Lutnick was by now; in novelist Tom Wolfe's felicitous phrase; a master of the universe.
"Ba ba ba" ("333") was, I am ashamed to say, about the only phrase I mastered in that country.
At one point, some brokerages and newspaper classified-advertising departments had become so cautious that the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a clarification memorandum in 1995 that said phrases like "master bedroom," "mother-in-law suite" or "bachelor apartment" were acceptable.
It's another phrase, like "Masters of the Universe" that Belfort cribbed from Tom Wolfe (this time from Wolfe's 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons).
And it is worth taking a moment to celebrate Beauman's great originality and skill – as a maker of phrase, as a master of simile, as a scrupulous selector of words.
The word comes from a much older Spanish phrase for "the master of the house," from the Latin for dwelling.
She has true legato and phrases like a master cellist.
And another cellist, Nathaniel Rosen, recalled: "No violinist could match phrases with the master like Izzy Baker".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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