When someone asks me "where are you from?" I answer literally (the United States, Oregon or my hometown), prompting the lovely follow-up question "No, where are you from?" Obviously, I'm meant to realize that he or she is asking for my racial background, yet the phrasing sets me apart: not a real American, but someone in America originating elsewhere.
But the first time he says the phrase sets the tone for this drama directed by Ben Coccio.
In practice, this means he charts connections, creates his own arcs and phrases, sets his own accents.
So it was plainly time, with the recent veto of a bill extending children's insurance, to "make pet health insurance available to all American children now!" A single phrase sets off a land mine beneath a well-trodden topic.
For a given participant, one of the five forward-phrase sets and one of the five reversed-phrase sets were concatenated together, their order randomized, and presented for rating.
That phrase set off by commas, it a convoluted, preening muscle-flex, is a big problem.
Most big pop singles consist of simple phrases, set to fully realized melodies and accompanied by identifiable instruments.
Official NHS documents, albeit laden with the service's usual array of buzz phrases, set out the purpose of STPs.
The tracks tick along steadily, each phrase setting up the next; minor chords often linger in the mix, hinting at an underlying moodiness.
Note to studios: beware pitches that contain the following words or phrases: "Set in a dystopian future", "a young warrior", "must defy convention", "risk all" and "save humanity".
For Lochte, one gets the impression that the phrase, setting up one of the big dramatic narratives of these Games, was always more of a commentator's coinage than a visceral personal rivalry of his own.
