But as I stood at the top of the escalators and thought of my friend, shell-shocked and broken, I wanted to rip down that ad (frustratingly not possible as they are now electronic screens) and rewrite that phrase.
So simple, so easy -- yet, this tests our comfort levels and works us to the bone as we create new and different ways to rewrite the phrase because, for some reason, the words, "I love you" make us feel too raw, too open to misinterpretation.
The Czech Republic has won Olympic gold, finally!" In a country where the very notion of history is so fraught, Zaruba's phrase, "Rewrite history!" became famous.
Coming up on Women's History Month — and in the middle of Black History Month — I've been thinking a lot about the phrase "rewriting history" and how it's almost always presented as a negative or an impossible.
First, it uses language rules learned from a large database of sample sentences to rewrite the search phrase so that it resembles possible answers: for example, "___ killed Abraham Lincoln" or "Abraham Lincoln was killed by ___". Those text strings are then used as the queries in a sequence of standard keyword-based Web searches.
With this phrase, Barack Obama rewrote our national narrative of freedom and equality.
This phrase should be rewritten and clarified, because as it is written, it seems that this is the first time that the Arrhenius equation is used in protein folding simulations and that's not true because its usage is widely established in protein folding.
The other changes are of the same order: explicating rather than rewriting, or tinkering with a phrase or a note to get more of an effect, as in an exchange that Mr. Miller noted always got a laugh in the play but didn't in the Chicago opera.
Phrases were written and rewritten all night, with a view to creating a document that both sides could claim represented a victory, which they did shortly after the approval.
Under Michaelson's direct examination, Blankfein subtly rewrote the history of the financial crisis a phrase he never uttered.
But the bigger point is that once you start rewriting plays, even odd phrases from plays, for a particular audience, where do you stop?
