Further exploration of the possible relationship between meaningfulness and letter length is only one of many potentially fruitful uses of the resource provided here for the study of noun noun phrases.
And, because computers are great at searching, they have been a boon for stylistics: the study of the words, phrases, or images that recur across a work.
The Busoni was an ideal setup for the American premiere of Mr. Birtwistle's "Gigue Machine," a dense, darting and arresting 15-minute study of the rhythms and phrasing of the gigue dance form.
As time progressed, "Daniel Lambert" came to mean anything exceptionally large; Herbert Spencer's The Study of Sociology used the phrase "a Daniel Lambert of learning", while Thomas Carlyle referred sarcastically to Oliver Cromwell as "this big swollen Gambler and gluttonous hapless 'spiritual Daniel Lambert'".
The precise observations of court etiquette and behavior, the accounts of obscure maneuverings and wranglings, and above all the character studies and turns of phrase are just wonderful.
We selected for empirical research studies, using derivations of phrases such as 'research', 'study'empiricalcal' or 'report', and 'method'method
Powell's book, as well as his official reports, contained much information on the Native Americans of the southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau regions, and in 1877 he published Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, with Words, Phrases, and Sentences to Be Collected.
On Logue's flow chart, nailed to the wall of his study, a phrase from Pope's translation of the Iliad sits next to quote from a New Yorker article about the Gulf War: "a million footprints, /Empty now".
Peter Drucker, a management writer who first made his name with a study of GM in 1945, coined the phrase "industry of industries".
There is no sense of phrasing.
