Occasionally weak phrases disrupt the poems – "the yellowed teeth of time", "gristle, roaring with calories", horses that "run like mad things" – but for the most part the language is precise and direct, the poems' revelations understated and unsentimental.
As grammarist.com points out somewhat tartly: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
As grammarist.com points out: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
Dr. Lukash advocated for the weaker phrase, "reasonable probability".
But she had, he says, "the terrible strength of the weak"—a phrase he knows he read somewhere but can't place.
The university now must answer for its failure to protect the children Sandusky abused, in some cases years after it had the warning signs it needed — if that's not too weak a phrase for one of its employees saying that he saw a boy being raped in its team's locker room.
Regardless, the phrase "weak and naive" may be muttered with some regularity over the course of the campaign to come.
Argued -- we've argued before, there will be not an October Surprise, but rather an October Scare in 2016 to try to Ebola-ize the election so people vote for "strong and wrong over smart and weak" (Bill Clinton's phrase).
At the same time, editorials have been filled with references to an absence of authority, incompetence, government by a chancellor's office clique, and, repeatedly, the phrase "the weakest government" in postwar Germany.
The phrase "…much weaker than that of the similarly sized buccinators, Nematherium" – is unclear.
The degrees of seismic intensity were categorized from strongest to weakest using five phrases as follows: "violente secousse," "forte secousse," "secousse assez forte," "légère secousse," and "la secousse".
