Sentence examples similar to stock of language from inspiring English sources

He then spent 3 years in Japan, where he added Japanese to his stock of languages.

Notwithstanding the original unity of stock and of language, these populations had diverse histories and cultures.

The geographer Richard Campanella, in his forthcoming essay "A Katrina Lexicon," takes stock of how language has evolved in relation to Katrina, including the degree to which Katrina is, or isn't, thought of as a storm.

Its strength lay in two features: the original, carefully divided and ordered, elegantly formulated definitions of the main word stock of the language; and the copious citation of quotations from the entire range of English literature, which served in support and illustration and which exemplified the different shades of meaning of a particular word.

This practice reminds us that a language cannot be reduced to a dictionary or stock of words and phrases.

Those struggling to keep alive India's rich stock of ancient languages tell of the unstoppable march of Hindi and English.Yet on balance he is hopeful.

Smack in the heart of the city, the hotel is minutes by foot from the Roman-era archway that vaults over Via Manzoni and is built into a complex that includes the only branch of the bookstore chain Feltrinelli Librerie with an extensive stock of English-language books.

Otomanguean languages, a phylum, or stock, of American Indian languages composed mainly of Amuzgoan, Oto-Pamean, Popolocan, Subtiaba-Tlapanecan, Mixtecan, Zapotecan, and Chinantecan.

This is from a paper entitled "The Grand Hotel Abyss: History and Violence in 'The Shining,'" which purports to analyze the famous scene in which Jack Nicholson types the phrase "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy": Nicholson has become a chomping-machine of language, recycling stock phrases, appropriating whatever drifts into his path.

On the other hand commissions in jazz can impose a kind of inflation: they usually lead to raised expectations, and raised expectations usually lead to large ensembles, long pieces or superimposed themes, none of which are the common stock of today's jazz language.

The Results: During a bubble, Mr. Keane and Mr. Gerow found an increase in the frequency of language like "stocks rose again," "scaled new heights" or "soared".