Though Mia is poor, unruly and obviously, in social-work parlance, "at risk"— her mother (Kierston Wareing) and younger sister, with whom she lives, are equally volatile, or even more so — "Fish Tank" is not drawn from the case files, and does not solicit pity.
In a classic Platonic sense, this constitutes the work (in more fashionable parlance, "the text").
But today many of those corporations have decided to postpone or cancel plans to set up databases or telecommunications networks, leaving many consultants without any work, or in their parlance, "on the bench".
Also typical of the artist's work is the easy parlance between man and beast: the camels wait contentedly for their riders to return, while the dog and waterfowl adopt similarly relaxed demeanors.
Calling themselves Mabou Mines — the name came from a town in Nova Scotia where the group spent a working summer — they produced a series of works that, in the parlance of the time, might have been considered less theater than performance art or conceptual art, generally involving the Minimalist music of Mr. Glass.
It worked, or in football parlance, "froze the linebackers".
They were working as "ghosts," police parlance for undercover officers whose job is to provide backup for another officer who is doing what they call "buy and bust" work.
That chemotherapy was no longer working, or, in doctor parlance, that Ruth had 'failed' chemo".
In pitching parlance, this new work is Nineteen-Eighty-four or Brave NeWorldld reworked by a tag team of Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth.
I shared my excitement with our most experienced and revered copy editors — O.K.'ers, in New Yorker parlance — who still work on paper, with pencils.
Mr. Kerik emphasized that the officers would not return to street patrol or "enforcement duties," parlance for police work that puts armed officers in contact with the public.
