Cavendish would grant that some of us might squirm at using expressions like "muscle memory", but she would worry that when we do (squirm), we are in the grip of a theory, and a theory that has us denying the obvious.
For instance, while availability is a quantitative metric, it is obviously more intuitive for the user to express her requirements by using expressions such as High or Medium, rather than specifying precise numerical thresholds.
Therefore, the theoretical error probability of the modified SS scheme is expressed as (19) when the mean and variance could be achieved using expressions (20) and (21).
What a pompous prick his father was, using expressions like "perpetrators of a crime"!
4) Anyone using expressions derived from the word banter – including "banterous", "bantastic" and "bantersaurus rex" – will be poisoned.
Q. Are certain occupational groups especially good at using expressions to sort truth from lies? A. Yes, the Secret Service.
IT'S hard to talk about Martin Sherman without using expressions like "anomalous" and "falls between the cracks".
Children take things literally, she adds, so avoid using expressions such as "lost your mum" or "Auntie's gone on a journey".
Like some modern-day Rip Van Winkle, he is confounded by electronic vending machines, overwhelmed by mega-malls and prone to using expressions like "gee whiz" and "holy cow".
(She does not hold back in the book from using expressions like "adored" and "madly in love" to describe her relationship with her pet).
For a while, at least, just using expressions like "grenades" and "smushing" suggested an insider's tongue-in-cheek cool: You couldn't be that old and that out of it if you got the joke of "Jersey Shore".
