Unsurprisingly, Mr Cameron is keen to assure British voters this mission is not merely an outbreak of do-goodery, but also "hard-headed" (a favourite Cameron phrase), rooted in national interests, and limited in scope.The prime minister duly offers a second, buttressing set of arguments for war, couched in national-interest terms.
It is celebrated as the source of hundreds of idiomatic expressions — four-character phrases rooted in Chinese folktales and history.
With phrasing rooted in wisdom backed by the skills and artistry of a veteran performer, Buckley transformed songs like "I Won't Dance" (from Roberta), "More I Cannot Wish You" (from Guys and Dolls), and "Maria" (from West Side Story =) into radically new and wondrous experiences.
The phrase is rooted in its opposite: out of harm's way, coined by the English divine Thomas Fuller before 1661: "Some great persons..
Mr. Martin's solo number has been hilariously staged, as he combines Elvis Presley posturing with a wonderfully wicked delivery of phrases like "root canal". Seldom has one single film sequence, in which Mr. Martin gleefully terrifies his patients and brandishes the most ghastly array of instruments, done as much to set back the integrity of an entire profession.
The phrase had roots in the Greek patristic authors whom he was studying when he wrote the Enchiridion (Augustijn 1991 75).
Last week at a Virginia campaign rally, President Obama introduced a new rallying cry: "economic patriotism". Obama says the phrase is rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong, thriving middle class.
There are theories that the phrase is rooted in boxing or poker.
The dancers inhabiting it were not so much people as representations of the rhythms of nature; when they touched one another, they did so with an absorbed, distracted air that took their interactions out of the literal, and there was a groundedness, even in the lighter phrases, that rooted the dance.
