The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
There was a-- the locution is deliberate, the distinction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2009] Reference
Hence the awkward and not-native locution "the next years.". From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Next Year in Iraq] Reference
A third locution is, "You are going along to the Kükendell fair". From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
He has not used any locution like that since he's been president. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2009] Reference
“I have never heard that locution before,” he said pedantically. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
This makes it less clear what the locution ˜present as™ amounts to. From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
BENNETT: Well, it's a good locution: "I'm curious about Senator McCain.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2006] Reference
But there's no one to guard the "homeland" -- a nice Hitlerian locution. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: Patriarchy:1000, Hillary:0] Reference
Now comes a shift in locution: They've never been counted by human hands. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Campaign Asks Florida Supreme Court to Order Manual Count of Disputed Ballots; Legislature May Choose Florida's Electors - November 29, 2000] Reference
"If it's right for you" is one locution that points to that way of thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethic of the Market and the Erosion of Moral Values: One More Lesson from the the Coulter Disgrace] Reference
Sir Christopher Meyer's recollection, hedged in diplomatic locution, is this. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Shearer: "Signed in Blood" -- Tony Blair's Deal With Bush] Reference
The “about” locution is one of the mind-enfeebling verbal tics of our time. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 7-6-08] Reference
He said -- he used the locution, "we both believe," "we both think" too many times. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008] Reference
“Know” in instances of the locution “x knows that p” is factive: if x knows that. From Wordnik.com. [Facts] Reference
Austin cites persuading, explaining and alarming as examples of the latter sort of locution. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
This same locution in the vernacular is found in the Tagalog folk-tale of "Lucas the Strong.". From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
He paused for a moment, both in his locution, and in his walk back and forward across the floor. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
The locution "I want him to fail" is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009] Reference
The locution, "I want him to fail," is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009] Reference
Lacking them, she could have used a simpler locution, telling him only, Don't worry, or, Be brave. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The members of Congress I was able to coax into commenting didn't just talk about Limbaugh locution. From Wordnik.com. [Howie Klein: Republicans In Congress Get Behind Limbaugh's Call For Obstructionism & Failure] Reference
You locution about these things keep moving up, it's like when the White House says, mistakes were made. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2007] Reference
I am back from being Obamatized (worn out - a friend's locution) to being energized - and PA is in play. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Ahead In Pennsylvania] Reference
Instead, the interview veered away from verifiable fact and went to this odd locution about his intention. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 9-28-08: In Which George Stephanopoulos Shies Away From Moments of Truth] Reference
The "media culture" locution is another one of the President's ways of trying to remain "above left and right.". From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: What the President Didn't Seem to Learn From the Shirley Sherrod Incident] Reference
'Look here,' said Polson, using his favourite locution, 'you've threatened two or three times to make an end of me.'. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Hey Roger, after eight years of mangled presidential locution, do we really want to be rewarding no-nothing grammar?. From Wordnik.com. [William Fisher: Palin: Sancho Pander] Reference
"The locution 'I want him to fail' is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated," expounded Bennett. From Wordnik.com. [Howie Klein: Republicans In Congress Get Behind Limbaugh's Call For Obstructionism & Failure] Reference
What some called his tangled locution when testifying before Congress was, by his own admission, intentionally obscuring. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Alderman: Alan GreenSpeak -- What'd He Say?] Reference
"Not -- not altogether," said he, unhappily accepting the common locution of the town, that means always more than it says. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
This conceptually makes SAG the suitor, and AFTRA the decision maker (or the "decider," in George Bush's charming locution). From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Handel: Basic Cable Clarification and Details] Reference
This neutralizes the (microscopic) damage that Obama's similar locution (for which he apologized) might have caused to Obama. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Apologizes For Saying American Lives "Wasted"] Reference
Plus which (to use Bill's favorite Ozarks locution), I wrote at the top that the Clinton's are a Machiavellian "parlor game.". From Wordnik.com. [Jackson Williams: Hillary Clinton's Curious Concession Speech] Reference
Is it fair game to use a clumsy extemporaneous locution to criticize a rival or should he be entitled to retract and restate?. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Tyndall: Asking Questions about ABC's Gotcha Debate] Reference
Just one phrase, one inimitable Cuomo locution: They “heard the sound of gunfire before they ever hear the sound of an orchestra.”. From Wordnik.com. [Cuomo and Newt at Cooper Union: Gunfire and Orchestras] Reference
That's one reason for the strange "National Socialism" locution -- it transforms the Nazis from monstrous killers to monstrous bureaucrats. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Hitler Is Back And He's in Charge of Your Health Care] Reference
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