Is it offensive to gays to use the word gay in a derogatory manner when that is the parlance in every school playground in the country?
"Film is the parlance of our times, the way people get their ideas," said the center's director, Murray Horwitz, a onetime circus clown, actor, songwriter and NPR programming executive who was recruited last year to devise the Silver's programming.
The schools were the project of numerous Christian missionaries, looking to instill European religious values into the "savages," as was the common parlance of the time.
Sign up for the best of VICE, delivered to your inbox daily.
He was, in the parlance of high school, no poseur.
She was, in the parlance of the period, a "U-boat".
In 1915, Hartzell elected to take his salary in shares-he was, in the parlance of the con, "on the outside -and he toutside -anddwest witheWhitoured.
She was, in the parlance of her campaign, "widening the electorate"—if not by tens of thousands then by just enough.
It was, in the parlance of sports, a no-win situation for the Wildcats, who not only lost but also had to pay North Dakota State $350,000 for the privilege.
His life was, in the parlance of stereotypes, "troubled".
