To the Editor: I was intrigued by your phrase "placing a qualified teacher in every classroom," seemingly mandated by No Child Left Behind.
It is interesting to speculate how things might have turned out had Microsoft not, in Judge Jackson's phrase, placed "its oppressive thumb on the scale of competitive fortune".
For example, the title of a chapter can be recognized as a sentence or phrase placed at the top of the page and in larger font size than the body of the text.
This is possible because of the advances in machine learning, using both on-device intelligence and cloud TPUs, which allow Lens to identify billions of words, phrases, places, and things in a split second, says Google.
I (reluctantly) admit that I'm one of those people who Googles phrases, places, names every couple of pages when I'm reading.
Visual elements include cloth, thread, webs and weaving, plus potent phrases placed directly on the walls.
The "Hommage à Tristan," for instance, was just a couple of simple phrases, placed like a single flower on the grave of Wagner's opera.
This is one of variety of phrases placed in their historical context when illustrated with objects from the Fairfield Historical Society's collections in "Haven't a Clue!: Origins of Everyday Expressions," on view through Oct. 9. "Like most historical societies, we have a large collection of everyday objects including tools from the past," said Adrienne Saint-Pierre, the museum's curator.
After mimicking Antony's direct address (a rhetorical device called apostrophe), Obama inverts the Shakespearean phrasing, placing the negation ("I've come here not") at the beginning of the sentence.
The ornaments here were not simply occasional trills and appoggiaturas, or the taking of obvious opportunities like the sustained notes on the phrase "rough places plain".
