In colloquial German, the verb "merkeln" now means "to prevaricate".
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She also spelled out words like odori, colloquial, and sevruga.
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Christina Brannon: The language choice he uses is very colloquial.
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In colloquial terms, the prism created two newly divergent timelines . . .
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Referring to evil men as "animals" is a common colloquial expression.
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This new colloquial use of "crypto" caused consternation in security circles.
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Her yelled enthusiasm often substitutes colloquial declamation for conventionally melodic singing.
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"Crack heads" and "crack babies" make their way into colloquial speech.
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The note is civil rather than colloquial, aspirational rather than inspirational.
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The colloquial definition of "obstruction" means to block, hinder or impede.
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But it's taken on a colloquial meaning in the coronavirus pandemic.
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But it's also a colloquial term for someone who's well connected.
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This decreases racist shitposting and increases the colloquial use of PowerPoint clichés.
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Perhaps he was thinking of "my dawg," the colloquial term of endearment...?
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Visual communications in the colloquial sense are about drawing our own conclusions.
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In contrast to Kate, Meghan's speaking style was more colloquial and outgoing.
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The first is in a colloquial sense focused on ethics and morality.
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There's a reason for the colloquial phrase "shining a light on" abuses.
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When we chat with friends, it's more colloquial and full of slang.
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Or assertions of personal conviction, or the exaggerations that come with colloquial speech?
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Because it's a colloquial phrase, the name is likely not a copyright violation.
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That's the colloquial name for North Korea's 230-strong, all-female cheerleading squad.
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All of these symptoms have earned severe sunburns a colloquial nickname: sun poisoning.
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Her language is by turns worshipful and profane, her tone colloquial and confessional.
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Not that I am calling Donna Brazile a bitch, that's a colloquial expression.
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"Lots of people have different colloquial phrases," he added to a Senate appropriations subcommittee.
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So I decided that the military had a colloquial expression for all space service.
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Even if she's using the word rape in a more colloquial sense — not okay.
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Hemedti fires up audiences in simple, colloquial Arabic that has wide appeal across Sudan.
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It's no surprise that slang and colloquial expressions change as the decades pass — groovy!
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Here, a dividing line between "good" moonshine and the colloquial "rotgut" can be drawn.
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I was not prepared for this wild, communicative, colloquial jumping-up-and-down person.
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This is another laid-back, colloquial expression that's best avoided in a professional email.
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The gap between colloquial and legal definitions may reveal more than a linguistic issue.
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Someone who used the colloquial "guys" to refer to the audience was sternly rebuked.
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"Swiping right" is a colloquial reference to approving of a potential match on Tinder.
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In this tweet, he quoted the colloquial term for someone who gives out (information) surreptitiously.
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The academic data is news-type data; while conversation on Facebook is much more colloquial.
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A personal account might want to publish with a more informal, colloquial and intimate style.
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To be honest, though, I'm disappointed that it's the only colloquial voice trigger listed here.
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" Fitzgerald added that CDC recommends substituting the colloquial "ObamaCare" for "Affordable Care Act" or "ACA.
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Even bad language can sound more colloquial and informal, at least among the right audience.
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Others have a more colloquial approach where the staff greet guests by their first names.
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But I realized, as specificity was of utmost importance, the colloquial would have to do.
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Some limit themselves to medical or legal language, others are more colloquial in their terminology.
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His atmospheres are solidly imagined, but the tone is breezy and colloquial and amazingly unliterary.
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She is a millennial writing, in colloquial language that is occasionally profane, for other millennials.
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Democrats deployed him and his colloquial style to hotly contested swing areas in this year's midterms.
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In Nigeria, "longthroat" is a colloquial phrase referring to the population's ambitions, or longing for success.
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Ghada Abdel Aal, a pharmacist and writer, started blogging about her love life in colloquial Arabic.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterised the colloquial Urdu/Hindi word "desi" as derogatory.
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In fact, the mainstream media is doubling down as the very purveyors of colloquial fake news.
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I'm the daughter of a mat salleh, a colloquial Malay term for white man or Westerner.
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And she has an EGOT (the colloquial term for winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards).
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The rich language of his material is consistently silly and surprising, colloquial but also deceptively nuanced.
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Stamos is using the abbreviated form of "non-consensual intimate image," more colloquial known as revenge porn.
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This makes it far easier for the participants to map their beliefs to the colloquial choices given.
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COLLINS: In the colloquial context, known public context, collusion -- collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct?
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"The energy market at the moment, to use a colloquial term, is a dog's breakfast," said Silk.
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My colloquial understanding of that use-case of the let's play comes from my own viewing habits.
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In Cairo we switched to Egyptian colloquial, which has a weak literary tradition but a vibrant character.
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Ricky Gervais: English-speaking crowds are a lot of the world, and my comedy isn't very colloquial.
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I do try to hold onto the bubbly colloquial Aussie way of not taking things too seriously.
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German couples adopted Claire's droll mix of colloquial dialect and hapless High German, as their private language.
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Leonie, a female zebra shark—the colloquial term for the Stegostoma fasciatum species—has lived alone since 2012.
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It always requires a bit of research, depending upon how slang-y or how colloquial the books is.
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However, in American colloquial speech, "monkey with" or "monkey around with" can mean handling something carelessly or incorrectly.
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She doesn't possess the poetic talents of a President Obama or the brilliant colloquial abilities of a Reagan.
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These trends are part practicality (today's communication tools enable faster, more colloquial online conversation) and part paradigm shift.
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Yet nobody wants to bring up their butt acne — or it's colloquial title, buttne — waiting for their latte.
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They aim to distill the organisation's high-level science into the more colloquial way people speak on Messenger.
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A note: While the word "psychopath" is a popular one, it's a colloquial term, not a medical one.
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There may not be a colloquial male equivalent, but look no further than Hollywood, and you'll find him.
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Lately, McMaster has started to adjust by making shorter points and a more colloquial tone, according to colleagues.
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In these spaces, you can use more colloquial language than with your boss or in the main channel.
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It is the same colloquial meaning as when the Supreme Court commonly used "eavesdropping" to refer to surveillance.
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A multilingual Latvian with a strong understanding of colloquial English, Porzingis appeared puzzled until someone rephrased the question.
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Professor Feldman said he had no quarrel with the headlines, which he said used an acceptable colloquial shorthand.
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Mr. Houellebecq's François speaks with colloquial candor, mixing personal and historical events, but we're stuck in his head.
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"I don't think that writing in a sort of breezy, vernacular, colloquial way is so unusual," she said.
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But most dictionaries — as well as common usage — accept "cow" as a generic term in casual or colloquial uses.
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" A more colloquial way of putting it would be "it's warm and fuzzy and not in an aggressive way.
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First, colloquial, so-called honest speech is a feature common to nearly all politicians, especially on the campaign trail.
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Eventually, however, the New Dealers won the battle, which is why liberalism today means "big government" in colloquial parlance.
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I used my immigrant colloquial expression which created humor and got the desired results - a seat at the table.
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There had always been some writing in colloquial Egyptian, and a number of intellectuals advocated for expanding this practice.
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The Bullshitter line runs from Melville to Twain to Faulkner to Miller, all heavily influenced by colloquial oral discourse.
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Even the letter 'n', which in colloquial Chinese can mean "many" or "countless", was also momentarily blocked on Weibo.
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There are details that might seem anachronistic, as when this distant world's inhabitants use modern colloquial expressions — or Velcro.
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That is the colloquial description of these basins, but it is really a misnomer given their size, she said.
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"The language is so colloquial that it can feel dated," Nigel Redden, Spoleto's general director, said in an interview.
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"This is 'hogra'," said Fettah Belkharchi, 66, using a colloquial term to describe the abuse of power and injustices.
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Interestingly, when I looked this up for translation online I was offered an interesting variation of formal and colloquial meanings.
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"Conversation is great, except colloquial usages are hard to determine between a troll and someone just talking normal," mcparker73 said.
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Jarnow employs an engaging, colloquial tone that captures the distinctive personalities and the intertwining voices that made up the Weavers.
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He asked crisp and colloquial questions, and he kept asking them if he did not find the lawyers' answers satisfactory.
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Speaking in gravelly, colloquial Arabic, he drags on a cigarette and insults Mr Sisi as a "midget" and a "disgrace".
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The practice of "fakelaki," a colloquial term for bribes given to get better service, is allegedly widespread in the country.
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The physicians who admitted Ramirez didn't understand the colloquial Spanish his girlfriend and her mother were using to describe his condition.
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While AI is great for pulling in vast amounts of relevant data, it still struggles with sarcasm, innuendo and colloquial language.
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A neat example is that the colloquial term Kop – referring to a stadium's stand or terrace – is used without any explanation.
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There are a few moments in the book, though, when Kendi uses the word in a more colloquial, less rigorous sense.
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Sometimes the straight form will do it, but for another brand or use case something more colloquial might be called for.
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Part of the reason is that traditional publications are typically hesitant to use colloquial language until it's generally understood among readers.
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I remember being called on to read the poems of Langston Hughes because I mastered the pronunciations of his colloquial euphemisms.
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"Tatou" has been an entry in the puzzle before, by the way, but as a colloquial term for a giant armadillo.
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Li himself is also a "sea turtle," a colloquial term in Chinese that describes overseas-educated graduates who return home to work.
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Mr. Lek would shake his head, turn his back, lean on the ropes and mutter something profane to himself in colloquial Thai.
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There are moments, often when we're using colloquial phrases or slang terms, when calling a woman a "girl" can actually be powerful.
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Few would imagine any equivalence between this kind of fear and the horribly colloquial sense terror has taken on in our world.
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Colloquial language problems also betrayed DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be Romanian but had a poor command of the language.
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Like that work, Hnath's is divided into scenes marked by titles and uses language that stresses the colloquial in a period setting.
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" He said his email to Rob Goldstone — "I love it" — was "simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture.
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The authors' first book is written in colloquial Arabic in the Shami dialect, which is spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.
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The double entendre of "colored" brings into the forefront shifting ideas about colloquial language as it involves race in the United States.
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Not that this matters for his fans, who seem to have travelled the 20-or-so miles from the city, colloquial slang intact.
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Between 2004 and 2008, people like Bryanboy and Tavi Gevinson were starting to build brands with quirky clothing pairings and colloquial writing voices.
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For one, to reach the modern American ear, nothing is ever more useful in our times than a colloquial, and even slangy, touch.
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"Though the face expresses emotion, and the dancer tells stories, the expression in Bharatanatyam is subtle and almost colloquial at times," she said.
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She was informal, colloquial, her sentences bookended by the word "see," a conversational fillip that also strangely felt like a mark of authenticity.
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In it, Parra broke with the florid style prevalent in Latin American literature at the time, and adopted a more direct, colloquial style.
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As an avid fantasy football league manager, I enjoyed seeing the latter — the colloquial term for "commissioner" — in a New York Times puzzle.
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The letter echoes its envelope, though, in its use of language — like "campaign summons" and "conservative affirmation" — that sounds more legal than colloquial.
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But U.S. producers have already been paying attention to the robust growth in Bollywood — a colloquial term used to refer to Indian cinema.
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He asks too many questions, his writing style is a bit too colorful and colloquial, and he talks too much about the Constitution.
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In some respects, Sisi is a natural politician, and his speeches, delivered in colloquial Arabic, often impress average Egyptians as sincere and sympathetic.
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Elkin's inimitable language is an exuberant blend of high allusions and colloquial registers, as bounce-and-pop as it is stop-and-go.
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At once erudite and colloquial, the book resists prescriptive judgments, teems with surprising juxtapositions, and evokes the contagious enthusiasm of a cool teacher.
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In doing so, it made clear that it was not determining whether Ms. Judd was sexually harassed in the colloquial sense of the term.
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The colloquial turn of phrase, "the Other's take you," (often used to mean "fuck off") also indicate it used to happen a lot more.
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Cuteness aside, though, sandpipers are pretty confusing, because "sandpiper" is both a species name and the colloquial name for the Scolopacidae family of birds.
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It is colloquial in tempo yet nerdy in content, divinely detached yet intimately casual in tone, impossibly learned and improvisational at the same time.
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More specifically: What does it take for hedge fund owner Marcus Moneybags* to go from colloquial online suitor to Richard Gere in Pretty Woman?
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It's told in a colloquial, very familiar way, and you also receive it on your mobile phone, in your personal space, wherever you are.
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Closer attention reveals a style of soft, careful rapping so assuredly cheerful that her rapid rhythmic bursts and tempo shifts sound like colloquial speech.
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"Though the business world is more informal today than in the past," Pachter recommended avoiding laid-back, colloquial expressions like "folks" in business communications.
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So the team went back to the drawing board, tapping people to translate key listings and steps in the purchase process into colloquial Hindi.
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Then came a rapid summary of the case that was cogent, colloquial and friendly, like a disc jockey talking about a singer's new release.
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And yet, the merino wool sneakers that snagged the colloquial title of "the world's most comfortable shoes" also happened to be really cool looking.
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But I admire the way she slips long, Latinate words into her metric lines without forcing a rhyme or losing the talky, colloquial feel.
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The title plays on the colloquial phrase "If you lived here, you'd be home by now" to convey the sensation of being culturally unsettled.
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A quick Reddit search pulls up scores of colloquial definitions, theories, and lists to explain the concept in much more, erm, forceful language than Clatterbaugh's.
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Its street name draws from a hispanic colloquial term, which generally refers to a "slender, elegant woman who charms all whom she meets," Hall says.
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It's worth noting that a "Blood Moon" is a colloquial term for a certain kind of solar eclipse, and often is connected to mystical events.
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Andromeda's writing has been dinged for swinging between colloquial and stilted, for being too on-the-nose with its characterizations, and for being over-earnest.
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It was written in a colloquial style, with practical examples and even fictional stories that demonstrated the impact that economic policy has on people's lives.
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A video work shows a dramatic recital of the narrative poem "Uncle Abdur Raheem" by the late poet M.E. Salim, translated from colloquial Sudanese Arabic.
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In contrast to the manic colloquial energy of Doyle's early work, this novel, his eleventh, feels moody and spare—a meditation on how wisdom wounds.
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The colloquial criteria for cultural authenticity turn out to be shallow; they turn on the common practice of making major differences out of minor details.
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From 1940 to 19533, he brought feisty opinions and lucid, colloquial prose to The New York Herald Tribune, where he championed living composers, especially Americans.
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" A Roger Federer look-alike had clothespins on his chest in place of medals, on which he'd written cheeky colloquial come-ons: " Mogst a bussi ?
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As David Letterman used to do in his late-night monologues, Gulman savors a colloquial term, repeating it until the mundane starts to sound odd.
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But should we treat the program as an "experiment" in a more colloquial sense, as Physicians for Human Rights and the A.C.L.U. seem to do?
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Qassim Suleimani crossed a line draw on two definitions of the term — one legal, one colloquial — whose dissonance reveals how far executive power has expanded.
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The brand name Fever-Tree is the colloquial name for the cinchona tree, the bark of which produces quinine - a key ingredient in tonic water.
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In colloquial terms, "uncanny" usually means an extremely close likeness, but Sigmund Freud defined the uncanny as something weirdly and nearly familiar—not wholly recognizable.
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While it is designated as a colloquial, non-medical term, it retains a firm hold over our sense of self-perception (not to mention, our wallets).
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By turns elegiac and colloquial, "Paradise Now" chronicles the ascent and demise of these "fellow travelers" — the Shakers among them — as they chased their perfectionist ideals.
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For instance, Duplex is so convincingly human-sounding because Google includes ticks like "uh" and "um" and other more colloquial phrases into the Assistant's verbal library.
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The "desi" bit is important too: desi is a colloquial, catch-all term applied to pretty much anything from the subcontinent that's local, homemade, or pure.
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For its part, this year's Cairo International Book Fair is honouring Magdy Abdel Rahim, who died last year, and his wide contribution to colloquial Egyptian poetry.
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But when the question was posed as to whether they support "Obamacare" -- the colloquial term for the Affordable Care Act -- support for the law is higher.
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It's not offensive to use a colloquial term on Slack sometimes, Cenedella said, but just know your coworkers might not be aware of what you're saying.
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Divorce remained exceedingly rare until the first liberalizing laws of the nineteenth century; breaking up in the more colloquial sense is not even a century old.
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Writers and editors may debate whether a colloquial expression is effective, how well a metaphor works, or whether a complex sentence is elegant or just impenetrable.
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"If you are talking about what's going on in a wider context and you're not a reporter, you're probably using words that are colloquial," she said.
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" Elizabeth Bishop found in Moore her best, in some ways her only, model and mentor; Wallace Stevens admired her "scrupulous … unaffected, witty, colloquial sort of spirit.
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He said that the word "paranoid" had, conversely, become so colloquial that people seem to have forgotten how serious it can be from a clinical standpoint.
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The Russia-linked Facebook ads that have been revealed often used colloquial language, amateur-ish memes, and conversational prompts to blend in with their target's feed.
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When he did respond, Yang was colloquial, notably declaring that the Russians were "laughing their asses off" about interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump.
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"The Court makes clear that it is not determining whether Plaintiff was sexually harassed in the colloquial sense of the term," Gutierrez wrote in his Wednesday decision.
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They can be gatherings of one or more species of bacteria or other microbes, and are generally referred to even by researchers by their colloquial name: slime.
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These speech patterns are often more casual, colloquial, rapid and full of slang than the way we formally address computerized assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Home.
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A senior leader from the main opposition Congress party dismissed the hiring trends publicized by the BJP as "another jumla", using a colloquial word meaning "false promise".
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According to colloquial accounts, it was used to prove if a woman's breasts needed better support, or if she needed to wear a bra under her shirt.
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There is also, obviously, a colloquial meaning of "treason," in which it consists of betraying your country in some way or favoring the interests of another country.
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In composing this moralistic fable, Mr. Capra and his writers have tossed in a great abundance of colloquial incidents and emotional tangles of a mistful, humorous sort.
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TURO TURO's name means "point point"—a colloquial Tagalog term for food bought in carinderias (street canteens), where customers point to the dishes they want to buy.
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Through Molly, a lawyer who brilliantly code-switches between corporate and colloquial vernacular, the show explores how class mobility often differs for African-American women and men.
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Sartori's God is male, jokey and, in Frederika Randall's translation, fairly hokey, with a colloquial diction out of the 1950s and a propensity to wink and nudge.
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Part of the problem is that the Guaraní taught in schools is a formal, and somewhat anachronistic, version compared to the colloquial version spoken on the street.
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Space junk is the colloquial name for orbital bits that do nothing useful: spent rockets, fragments splayed by collisions and degradation, old satellites no one cares about anymore.
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Then she will just be one of us in the colloquial sense — one of the girls like any other, human and frail again as we all must be.
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While it's true that simplicity is important, it turned out that people didn't feel very in control of their money over a platform as colloquial as text messaging.
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The white-collar workplace is nothing if not a safe space for a particular set of professional norms and values (the colloquial warning "NSFW" exists for a reason).
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He's superb at bringing abstract ideas to life, even if his colloquial style can be jarring on the page ("Here is where the Kantian rubber meets the road").
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While "Dungeness crab" refers to a specific species, the rarer, wild varieties go by colloquial monikers that might be used as catch-alls to refer to several species.
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It was absurd in the colloquial LOLWUT sense, but it was also more broadly absurd, in the way that the word has been used to apply to Sisyphus.
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Not the colloquial "pragmatism" of do what works, but something from the American philosophical tradition, where the truth of the matter is in the doing, not the definitions.
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But, on a colloquial level (such as Societe Generale uses in its quarterly list), Liu still doesn't see anything that could suddenly pull the world into a recession.
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EP track "Skip," where Lisa's deepened soprano whispers a lyric too fuzzy for a band whose turns of phrase pack colloquial bite even when literal meanings are gummy.
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I had forgotten what a funny, colloquial writer she can be, and how quickly and tartly she can animate a minor character or the fragment of a life.
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Fikri's death has become a symbol of "hogra" - a colloquial Arabic term for the deprivation of a person's dignity due to the abuse of power, corruption and injustice.
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"As much as some have made of my using the phrase 'I love it,' it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture," he said.
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There is a colloquial terseness to the game's writing that's used to great comedic effect in a way that's reminiscent of shows like Adventure Time or the Regular Show.
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Here Ali was, a converted Muslim who openly embraced black separatism with a undeniably singular voice, charming and colloquial, his radicalism tinged with quick rhymes and an indefatigable smile.
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Rasheed's work navigates these intersections, combining and recombining linguistic and visual registers, from mathematics to scholarly writing heavy with numbered footnotes to speech fragments in standard and colloquial English.
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But a couple of things are keeping America from fully including and involving people with disabilities into everyday life naturally: society's colloquial language and the style of disability advocacy.
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One of the most troubling and dare I say "problematic" developments in colloquial speech has been the overuse of the phrase "my truth" to blur absolute truth and opinion.
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Mining is the colloquial term for a resource-intensive computing process that basically involves guessing a number that results in a desired solution when plugged into a hashing algorithm.
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"To work amidst all that vastness was really special," said MacKenzie, whose New Mexico–shot desert chase sequences capture a grandeur that is matched by the film's colloquial authenticity.
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The singular identity of islanders is marked by cultural differences like the common use of the indigenous Rapanui language and its colloquial mixing with Spanish, which locals call Rapañol.
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"Boomer" is a colloquial but not always derogatory term for Americans who were born between 1946 and 1964, a period dubbed "the baby boom" for its heightened birth rates.
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It's another example of AOC's famously colloquial social media presence that resonates with so many because of how much of a shift it is from that of traditional politicians.
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The bright, alluring substance known as copper aceto-arsenite is a highly toxic powder that was once used to exterminate rats in Parisian sewers (hence its colloquial name, Paris green).
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So I was pleasantly surprised when I woke this morning to the launch of a Ludacris-touted app that's basically Words With Friends but with the acceptance of colloquial words.
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"When the 'Remain' campaign tells us no one will trade with us if we leave the EU, sorry, it's absolute cobblers," he said, using a colloquial British term for nonsense.
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"When we are doing exactly the same work, the Han people get, say 300 kuai, and the Tibetans get 200 kuai," he said, using the colloquial term for China's currency.
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Their ad and product copy was friendly and colloquial, which felt right because they were largely operated by millennials who were targeting their peers, creating a sense of shared values.
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Hydrodipping, a colloquial term that refers to using water transfer printing to apply colorful designs to three-dimensional surfaces, has quickly gone from a niche hobby to a viral trend.
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Many of the features Facebook has since added have seemed to be about walking back the pretense of a free-ranging, colloquial AI to a more structured and practical utility.
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At the December policy meeting the Fed's dot plot, a colloquial name for a chart in the central bank's quarterly "Summary of Economic Projections", suggested four rate rises in 2016.
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But you'll still see some of Trump's defenders refer to the history of colloquial names that (seemingly) relied on a disease's place of origin — like the Spanish flu, Ebola, etc.
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" Vertical takeoff or landing (VTOL) craft is the clunky but more accurate way to describe this kind of futuristic vehicle, though Kraus says he prefers the more colloquial "flying cars.
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I laughed out loud at some of the colloquial language and stories, and cried at others, particularly Jim's story of how he discovered his little girl was deaf and mute.
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Ectrodactyly, or ectro, was once called a birth defect and is now known as a "medical abnormality," but I've always been partial to its more colloquial term: lobster claw syndrome.
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If I had started with some fun colloquial phrases for the 15's instead of you-know-it-or-you-don't proper nouns, maybe they could have added some zest.
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Who would figure that Mary Astor's life would provide such entertaining reading, but in Sorel's colloquial, eccentric style, the tale he tells is juicy, funny and, in the end, touching.
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Children are taught in Mandarin at school and, in one poignant scene, Hank's son walks up to him after class calling him the Mandarin "baba" instead of "loudau" in colloquial Cantonese.
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With a scant appeals record, most of the attention is focused on Thapar&aposs trial court service, where he is remembered for sprinkling pop culture and colloquial references in his work.
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So, Storefronts will be marketed with a colloquial understanding of what a small business is, but function using a definition that includes basically anything less than a publicly-traded global brand.
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"So I ask each and every one of you ... end the trench warfare and work together to take on the Tories," he said, using the colloquial term for the Conservative Party.
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The colloquial term for it is "lazy eye," but it's a condition whereby one or both of the eyes aren't set straight, and it wreaked havoc with the TrueDepth camera system.
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In December 2007, one of Britain's biggest radio stations BBC Radio 1 briefly edited out the words "slut" and "faggot", which is also an Irish colloquial word for a lazy person.
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Practicality. "It would be super weird to pull out sweet corn from the freezer in January, so we generally only put-by fruits," he says, using a colloquial term for preservation.
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Among gay and bisexual men, the only two activities that a majority of participants endorsed as "definitely sex" were insertive and receptive anal intercourse (or "topping" and "bottoming" in colloquial terms).
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Pyle honed a sincere and colloquial style of writing that made readers feel as if they were listening to a good friend share an insight or something he noticed that day.
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Whether Marx Brothers is a playground or a park — in either the legal sense or a more colloquial one — has no bearing upon its value to the community, Ms. Goldstein said.
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Those who have read Hunt's other recent novels will note similarities — a historical American backdrop, intriguing female main characters, a colloquial first-person voice with a distinctive cadence and poetic cleverness.
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" On this line, Cale resists the temptation to sing "you" as the more colloquial "ya," which Cohen often did, and cheekily—to make it rhyme in a satisfying way with "hallelujah.
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In her remarks on Wednesday, Ms. Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, relied on familiar colloquial expressions and offered few specifics about the many foreign policy challenges facing the administration.
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If an artist does have a negative reaction to the idea of performing, it's simply put down to "stage fright"—a term now so colloquial that it often underestimates the experience.
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While there's obviously a colloquial sense in which "traitor" is used as a general descriptor of disloyal people, the term also has a formal legal definition in the Constitution, and as Sen.
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Although the former is the colloquial catch-all term for what we think of as being potentially invasive, biased, and so on, in the terminology here it is different from the latter.
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The word uck is a colloquial term for oral sex, but authorities say sexual coercion at these parties isn't limited to oral rape, and that the abuse is often peer-on-peer.
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Kagan leavens her opinions with colloquial turns ("boatload"; "chutzpah"; "these are not your grandfather's—let alone the Framers'—gerrymanders"; a citation of Dr. Seuss) without sacrificing the requisite meticulousness of legal analysis.
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After the U.S. dropped the largest conventional bomb in its arsenal on an ISIS-related target in Afghanistan last month, Francis objected to the device's colloquial name: the Mother of All Bombs.
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His technique is deceptively simple: The stories are told through sketches of brilliant, eccentric people, experts in their fields, who tend to speak in the same effervescent, colloquial way that Lewis writes.
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The goal of these podcasts is relatively simple: Learn, enrich, teach, and conduct a dialogue that pushes the investment ethos forward in a unique, colloquial way that no other medium can capture.
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Maum's writing is easy, eager and colloquial, and she shines when she writes about creativity, the slow burn and then sudden rush of ideas that lead her heroine to change her life.
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Over the past month the colloquial definition of "fake news" has expanded beyond usefulness, implicating everything from partisan news to satire to conspiracy theories before being turned, finally, back against its creators.
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Abbas's leadership tested Abbas's Central Council speech was peppered with colloquial Arabic; it was not a speech laying out a new Palestinian foreign policy, or setting a new course for the PLO.
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Melancholy is the most pronounced psychology in Blue, perhaps because of the colloquial meaning of the title, Wong's recent suicide, and the subsequent press coverage which described his lifelong struggle with depression.
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INDOOROOPILLY, Queensland — "Stinky bean" is a good nickname for a jolly baby, but it is also the colloquial name for petai, a plant whose vibrantly green seeds look much like fava beans.
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"Internally at The Markup we've had many conversations about tone and style, which have included kicking around questions about whether we would ever use colloquial language like 'dumpster fire,'" Ms. Gardner said.
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" Yes, garlic's smell is so pungent that, as Allen pointed out, "other common names include 'Divel's Dreck,' a colloquial version of the ancient apothecary's term, Stercus Diaboli, meaning 'the devil's own excrement.
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AlphaBay was largely considered the largest and most lucrative underground marketplace on the Dark Web, a colloquial shorthand term for the network of sites accessible only through the anonymity-preserving web browser Tor.
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The Google Assistant can tell me all sorts of stats and figures about running back Adrian Peterson, but when I ask about his injury in a colloquial way, the Assistant comes up short.
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All but Omar were born in the U.S. Tlaib did not specifically address the Trump tweets in her speech but invoked "the squad," the colloquial term for the four congresswomen, in her address.
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The Irish were also known, in a colloquial sense, for barroom brawls and machismo-fueled battles, and their fighting temperaments and need for gainful employment made prizefighting an ideal career for young Irishmen.
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As Exhibit A, he has pointed to Panther Island, the colloquial name for the Central City Flood Control Project, a troubled economic development project that would reroute the Trinity River to minimize flooding.
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Pornshire is a colloquial term for Goldshire, a small outpost just outside Stormwind City, and the inn there, the Lion's Pride, is host to an inordinate amount of filthy erotic role-playing (ERP).
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It was indeed a "tragedy" in the colloquial sense ("an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress"), but not at all in the literary sense, with its implicit pattern of crisis/hubris/nemesis.
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"As they say in my neighborhood, you're dipping into the Kool Aid and you don't even know the flavor," he told Biden with a smile, as the audience cheered his colloquial put down.
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Asked why, he cited, among other things, the existence of Newfinese, a colloquial mix of 17th- and 18th-century English, Irish and French that is still spoken in rural communities on the island.
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Such colloquial words were, however, collected in small dictionaries of slang, jargon, and cant vocabulary over the years, giving us a window into the history of colorful nonliterary language, particularly that of London.
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"It's not just about adding more planes, but also trainers to accelerate the speed with which local forces can retake territory against Daesh," the official said, using a colloquial term to describe Islamic State.
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They are things that I've genuinely felt, but then I suppose the words I'm using, and the way I phrase them, is poetic and strange… So it doesn't sound like colloquial language, you know?
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"And then he runs for president and did something that's never happened before: He skipped this town," Schlapp said, a reference to the colloquial "this town" label placed on establishment party figures in Washington.
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He grilled Mueller on the "colloquial" difference between the terms "collusion" and "conspiracy" and asked Mueller if at any point the investigation was hindered or stopped, to which the former special counsel answered no.
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" Go to Urban Dictionary, though, and you'll find a more colloquial definition, the one you'll probably recognize from present-day meme-speak: "when someone takes a small subject and blows it out of proportion.
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From the patriotic and bright graphics to the intentionally unpredictable camera movements to the sounds and music, to the anchors cadence and colloquial delivery, Mr. Ailes had created the greatest news show on earth.
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Hairy panic is the colloquial name for Panicum effusum, a fast-growing grass that can turn into a tumbleweed in very dry conditions, which the town of Wangaratta in Northeast Victoria is currently experiencing.
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The suspension notice cited the offensive tweets in question: They were part of a conversation that involved multiple users, including one with a prestige-conferring "blue checkmark" — the colloquial term for a verified account.
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His poetry, including works like "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," used colloquial language and spoke to an urbanized generation that longed for the simplicities of rural life.
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"Saffas who know each other well tend to kiss each other on the lips, which everyone else thinks is super weird," said Alex Westcott Campbell, using the colloquial term for South Africans like herself.
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That's not a colloquial exaggeration — the main anechoic chamber in Building 87 at Microsoft is in the record books as the quietest place on Earth, with an official ambient noise rating of negative 20.3 decibels.
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The incident sparked outrage against "hogra", a colloquial Derja Arabic term for deprivation of dignity because of official abuses or corruption, and prompted some of the largest protests since Arab Spring-inspired demonstrations in 2011.
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Mueller has made frequent use of "speaking indictments" — a colloquial term used by attorneys and legal experts to describe indictments that go into more detail, and provide more facts, than what is required under law.
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While the plays share a colloquial wit and an interest in silence (like Pinter, Drury loves a pause), I found it hard to predict where Drury would go next, because her mind is so free.
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The statues refer to the abuse of "comfort women," a colloquial term for the estimated 20173,000-200,000 girls and women who were forced into sexual slavery during Japan's 1910–1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.
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With no real political machine or publicity campaign, Saied has appealed to Tunisians in television appearances speaking in a highly correct form of Arabic devoid of the colloquial expressions used by most of his compatriots.
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Netflix — Top technology stocks — also known as the "FAANG" group, the colloquial name for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet — all climbed in trading, with Netflix up 20203% and leading the group higher.
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So colloquial plural forms have sprung up, such as "y'all," common in the American South, or the more recent "you guys" — an oddly gendered locution at a time when the generic "he" is becoming extinct.
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I think the thing that Slate does … first of all, it's the voice of our journalism, that it's colloquial, that it's personal, that we write very comfortably and in a very direct way for readers.
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Nicanor Parra, a Chilean poet whose use of direct, colloquial and playful language, often for ironic and comic effect, pioneered the literary movement that became known as anti-poetry, died on Tuesday in Santiago, Chile.
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She now recognizes that her previous inability to keep a job was down to autism burnout, a colloquial term that describes what happens when people on the autism spectrum become overwhelmed and exhausted by stress.
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What puts Trump over is his colloquial style: rather than speechifying he just talks, which strokes exactly the sensibility that makes slogans like "It's the Economy, Stupid" and "Yes We Can" so effective in our times.
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His sermons were in colloquial rather than classical Arabic and his support base was largely among alienated youth in Al Awamiyah, a village in the Eastern Province surrounded by date farms and notorious for its militancy.
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Among the hashtags in the study, "the use of colloquial or layperson terminology for cosmetic surgical procedures seems to be much more popular than the use of technical terminology," Schierle said, such as #tummytuck over #abdominoplasty.
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That day, Patricius, his father, saw in him the signs of inquieta adulescentia, restless young manhood, and was—in Sarah Ruden's new, strikingly colloquial translation —"over the moon" at the thought of someday soon having grandchildren.
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Order Rubber Room here before it sells out, and pick up the rest of Master's surprise bounty whilst you're at it; Colloquial Sound Recordings also dropped new joints from Secret Creation, Prison Suicide, and Touch_Screen today.
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Some edits were obvious: As much as I admired Ms. Marnell's rough-around-the-edges, colloquial and honest writing style, I simply couldn't run either of the two "b" verbs she used as synonyms for intercourse.
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"Queens passed away this morning, heart attack, being announced 930 Am tomorrow, channel dash 0800 tomorrow in full numbers 1s," it said, referring to the Navy&aposs ceremonial uniform by its colloquial name of "number 1s."
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Trumpland George Saunders's article on Donald Trump's supporters was written in an unusual style for the magazine: fragmented, colloquial, and, at times, rambling and chaotic—a perfect representation of Trump's fans ("Trump Days," July 11th & 18th).
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In those works and his more recent "Thesaurus" series — in which Bochner depicts exuberant collisions of formal, colloquial and vulgar synonyms — the artist examines words' ability to muddy meaning ("blah blah blah" is a recurring motif).
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In this poem, even unlikely end words like "a" and "the" turn out to be faithful to the rhyme scheme — a clear homage to Robert Frost, who was known for setting colloquial expressions to classic meter.
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Almost always on her toes, she leaps and prances, evoking a good swath of modern dance or movement: Isadora Duncan, Nijinsky's faun, Josephine Baker, George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham, but also folk dance, yoga and colloquial gestures.
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Weed, dope, herb, joint, ganga and grass are just a few of the hundreds of words used as colloquial terms for marijuana, and it is claimed that the drug can treat depression, anxiety, insomnia, migraines and more.
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L. "Boutique expansion is a direct consequence of bulge brackets paying less, adding layers of bureaucracy and admin work for senior people," said one New York-based boutique banker, using a colloquial expression for the top banks.
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In a reversal of years of branding and more than a century of colloquial use, the religion commonly known as the Mormon Church has asked that people stop using the word "Mormon" when referring to the faith.
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Jonathan Dent: While OED updates do typically include additions reflecting recent developments in colloquial English, this is one small part of all new material that accompanies our quarterly batches of entries from the whole history of English.
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"The tendency to not believe women's reports of their symptoms is definitely connected to these larger, broader cultural stereotypes about women as emotional and irrational and hysterical in the colloquial sense of the word," she told Refinery29.
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Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices, said it had spent two years preparing for the European launch, with 1,000 engineers working to train the software to understand everything from local accents, senses of humor and colloquial phrases.
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Williams noted other perks at work in keeping students in the stands at Clemson, like consolidated upper-deck sections at Death Valley (the colloquial term for Memorial Stadium) and the successful fight to keep student tickets free.
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"I lived in peace as a widow in my home until last year, when I sold an unwanted acre of my late husband's land to korokoza," she said, using a colloquial term for an artisanal gold miner.
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The playwright's interest in colloquial speech and in "niceness" as a tactic are fully expressed during the first moments of the play, when Usher (the excellent Jocelyn Bioh, who also plays God and Understanding) takes the stage.
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"Although we used the term 'recuse' as it relates to State's Attorney Foxx's involvement in this matter, it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense," the office said in a statement.
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" In a September interview with the committee, Trump Jr. told investigators that "[a]s much as some have made of the phrase 'I love it', it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture.
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Her exemplary Pageant Material (2015) sketched a formal paradox, as a collection of "advice" songs that advised against the assumptions that underlie the very concept of the advice song, an examination and embrace of the American colloquial homily.
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For example, it recently dawned on us that the term "movies," which we all take for granted, is actually a cute colloquial abbreviation of "moving pictures," which is quite literally what the viewer experienced when watching early films.
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WASHINGTON — When the message from Matt Skiber arrived in the mailbox of the Facebook account for Donald J. Trump's Florida campaign in early August 2016, it raised no flags, despite its slightly awkward attempts at colloquial American English.
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"Second Sister," in Tiang's colloquial translation from the original Chinese, reads more like a mainstream mystery than a noir until we meet N, the enigmatic hacker Nga-Yee hires when her conventional private eye can't hack the job.
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During a June 2018 debate in parliament over a ban on using pepper spray, libertarian Senator David Leyonhjelm had heckled Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, telling her to "stop shagging men", a vulgar colloquial term for sexual intercourse.
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Writers of literary Spanish, from Gongora to the present, have often tended toward rhetorical extravagance and ornate grammar, but Di Benedetto the newspaperman favors sentences as clipped as telegrams, moving adeptly between lyrical, objective, colloquial, and philosophical registers.
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Travel startup Hipmunk has been moving in this direction as well, with the launch of Hello Hipmunk, but in my experience, at least, the technology doesn't always do a perfect job of translating colloquial English into a structured search.
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Throwaway references, like Jack's run-in with the East India Trading Company or a colloquial mention of Davy Jones' locker from the first film, get awkwardly built out into major villains in the second and third, then vanish forever.
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The "good hair" reference, as we have explained before, is a loaded and damaging colloquial term often used to refer to someone whose hair doesn't naturally kink or curl — a type that's historically been considered one to aspire to.
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Galinsky said Silver's colloquial handshakes, in contrast, seemed like an effort to project a sense of partnership, which may be needed with negotiations already underway on a new N.B.A. labor deal to take effect after the 2016-17 season.
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He said he was just being polite and "colloquial" when he emailed "I love it" to Rob Goldstone, the publicist who was setting up the meeting with a Russian who was said to have election-season dirt on Clinton.
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I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.
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A pope can mistakenly tolerate heresy, he suggested, or advance errors "in a very colloquial context, news conferences on airplanes and things like that," even as the Holy Spirit still prevents him from teaching heresy in a formal way.
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The man bun—which, as you likely know, is the popular colloquial term for a topknot on a male human—was quick to become one of the most ridiculed hairstyles in memory when it emerged a few years back.
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Her style resists translation, because it is full of colloquial French structures and expletives; she deploys them with abandon and an unerring sense of rhythm, lending the performance a directness that works well in the compact Théâtre de l'Atelier.
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The villain of the piece is Krall (Idris Elba), who, like the majority of life-forms in the "Star Trek" universe, just happens to be a biped of roughly human stature, with a good working grasp of colloquial English.
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" Mr. Zarif was unusual for an Iranian diplomat — a fluent, colloquial English speaker who knew American society, and so Western that during the negotiations over the nuclear deal, his hard-line adversaries in Tehran called him "Zarif the American.
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Unfortunately, a great many people do not separate their heads from their hearts; a great many, on both sides of the political spectrum, are susceptible to having their viscera stirred by the punch of angry, colloquial talking aimed at them.
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"These changes are designed to strike the right balance ... and encourage employers to take on more Kiwis and invest in the training to upskill them," immigration minister Michael Woodhouse said in a statement, using the colloquial term for New Zealand citizens.
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How it changed in a way that was just more colloquial and vivid than you would see in a standard report, even if it were an A-1 thing, and I wonder how that might have actually affected the campaign, too.
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Known as Khwaja Siras (a colloquial term for transgender people) in Pakistan, they gathered together outside of the Lahore Press Club to protest the gang rape of three members of their community over several days in the nearby city of Faisalabad.
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David Fidler, an expert on cybersecurity law and counterinsurgency at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Mashable that the concept of "cyberbombs" is meant to be more colloquial and make the idea of cyber operations more accessible to the average person.
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That is about to change as the 503-year-old quarter - a colloquial twist on "behind the bazaar" as it was known - embarks on a unique community-led modernisation that could be a model for inner-city redevelopment across India.
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Siri had a hard time with the length of a blue whale, Echo gave a rote reading of Wikipedia and the Home Max spoke in colloquial language right from the Google brain, making it the most enjoyable to listen to.
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The USCIS manual acknowledges that "occasionally," online translation services may not be adequate for understanding "foreign text written in a dialect or colloquial usage," but it leaves it up to individual officers to decide whether to request expert translation services.
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In comments posted on the ministry's Facebook page before she returned home on Friday, Makram wrote that she had "used a colloquial Egyptian-Arabic phrase and made a gesture that has since been taken out of context and its intentions misunderstood".
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Fevertree, named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, the bark of which produces tonic water ingredient quinine, said its business that supplies mixers to hotels and pubs in UK performed well in the second half of the year.
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Anyone who took to the colloquial charms of McCourt's first two books — "Angela's Ashes" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1997) and "'Tis" — will appreciate the warmth and surprising turns of his creative classroom style, and his expansive, enveloping storytelling skills.
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For those who do not speak Latin or who may be unacquainted with legal terminology, the basic concept behind "quid pro quo" can be summed up in a more colloquial saying in English: If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: There was a letter in which the President, I will have to go get the letter, wrote to Erdogan in which he effectively – JOE KERNEN: It was a colloquial type letter he said make a deal or else.
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It was language that drew the New York journalist Zora O'Neill to spend months crisscrossing the Middle East, beginning in the fall of 2011, as she ignored the region's post-Arab Spring upheavals in her quest to learn colloquial Arabic.
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It's why I didn't really last there for more than a semester or two before I had to go abroad, and then I immediately moved downtown — and it's just confusing, too, because you're just like, this is colloquial college experience.
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The 13-year-old company, named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, the bark of which produces tonic water ingredient quinine, has also been launching products that can be used to make cocktails based on vodka, rum and whisky.
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Although the exact cause of the colloquial-sounding condition isn't completely understood, those symptoms can be triggered by emotional stress, like a breakup or the death of a partner, friend or pet, or even seemingly positive stressors like a surprise party.
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The "force" of Nicks's title can be the obvious colloquial reference—the police—but it can also be a much more literal, yet somewhat more opaque, allusion: how these public servants should wield the power and authority we give them.
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This approach to dorm decorating may seem a bit excessive (not to mention expensive) for someone fresh out of high school, but according to Hulme, it's nothing out of the ordinary for students at Ole Miss, a colloquial name for the college.
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Perhaps the most powerful was a blue hand stating: "I am not Indian," a colloquial, ironic expression through which Syrians expressed their firm intention of not wanting to be fooled by the regime as if they were foreigners in their own country.
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Fevertree, named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, the bark of which produces quinine - a key ingredient in tonic water - is one of the largest companies on London's junior AIM market, with a market value of around 2.8 billion pounds.
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Fevertree, named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, the bark of which produces quinine - a key ingredient in tonic water - has become one of the largest companies on London's junior AIM market, with a market value of around 3.1 billion pounds.
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" A more colloquial answer would be this: "Well, I previously worked at Bank of America as a bank teller and uh … There, I provided exceptional customer service at our local branch and was basically tasked with resolving customer issues in a timely manner.
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EITHER YOU'VE CONVINCED – NOT YOU, BUT THE COLLOQUIAL YOU, YOU'VE EITHER CONVINCED YOUR INVESTORS THAT YOU HAVE TO STAY IN AND EVERYONE IS WRONG, AND THEN WHEN YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR MIND OR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IS INTRODUCED INTO A SECTOR, YOU CAN'T.
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" According to the email, the agency's formal name will be used for "statutorily required reports, legal filings, and other items specific to the Office of the Director" while the colloquial name and existing logo "will continue to be used for all other materials.
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I mean that Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible, and makes the reader only too glad to join the posse of friends and devotees who have the pleasure of listening in.
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The nature of the fact-check, which hinged on the literal and colloquial meanings of the word "said," and the liberal politics of ThinkProgress, where the disputed essay appeared, unleashed a furious debate about Facebook's role in refereeing, and suppressing, political commentary.
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We set out to find out if there were any other phrases with this property; a computer-aided search turned up a large handful of possibilities, ranging from the erudite (ALFRED ADLER, ANDRE DERAIN) to the colloquial (FAST FACTS, RIDE-OR-DIE).
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Mr. Suleimani's killing, by taking those powers to new extremes, draws new attention to how they became so broad, and so cloaked in executive branch secrecy, that an act that meets virtually any colloquial definition of assassination could be considered legally permissible.
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CICO, or logging one's "calories in, calories out" is the colloquial term for the app's central approach to weight loss (which is also highly evangelized on the popular subreddit r/loseit), and My Fitness Pal is how its followers log their daily bread.
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It plays a central role in both his formal and conceptual languages: his hard-edged, geometric compositions and day-glow rainbow palettes, as well as references to familiar song lyrics and colloquial expressions, and his incorporation of Indigenous craft techniques and design.
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It overlooks the ever-transforming nature of language and the creativity of colloquial patois used by different groups to develop kinship with others of their race, religion, age, social class or sexual orientation -- from hip-hop to street slang; Yiddish to Polari.
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As a dialect of basketball, 3x3 is still figuring itself out; letting the best colloquial basketball players on earth figure out its slang would be good not just for this nascent sport, but honestly for this entire anxious and joy-deprived universe.
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He's also big on surprises, which is why he casually flooded Bandcamp today with a cache of new releases from his Colloquial Sound Recordings label—including a new full-length from Aksumite, his wilfully nasty black metal-cum-punk project with drummer Tim Lenger.
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But within a year of its founding, WWVWD, to use its colloquial abbreviation, had more than 219,240 members; the week after the presidential election there was an increase of another 215,000, Ms. Collins said, with many seeking a way to marshal themselves for political action.
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Segal, whose early attempt to rename the bar "347" was swiftly rejected in favor of its colloquial name, ran Dirty Frank's for all of the '20113s and most of the '70s, a pivotal stretch that saw it blossom into a notorious haven for the counterculture.
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Ish, whose colloquial name is literally a word that someone might use if they were addressing something inherently forgettable—We had, uh, turkey and stuff and all that ish—is maybe the most ill-defined guard Mustache Mike has blessed with his touch thus far.
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Basa insisted that the FiyaStarter habit of using these colloquial nicknames preceded Twitter and the concept of hashtags by years, first offline and then on the FiyaStarter website, and that Broadnax's usage was "frustrating": She is aware that that type of talking did not originate from her . . .
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" Justice Neil Gorsuch He is among those appearing readiest to challenge past decisions, expressing his views in a colloquial style, as when earlier session he declared a lawyer was, "slicing the baloney a little too thinly," and at another point implored, "let's just spot me that.
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Created by a popular group of Let's Players (the colloquial name for YouTube's game-vlogging community, usually abbreviated as LP), Dream Daddy is a choose-your-own-adventure dating game, with each dad embodying a hunky trope that takes you down a different narrative journey to romance.
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Her comment about "forty acres and a mule" is a colloquial reference to the plan devised by Union leaders near the end of the Civil War to give land and assets to newly-freed slaves, which was ultimately abandoned by President Andrew Johnson once he took office.
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" Today, he brushed away the suspicion that this meeting could show the Trump campaign sought to collude with Russia: "As much as some have made of my using the phrase 'I love it,' it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture.
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The President's decision Tuesday to answer the long-running question of how he will respond to the murder of the Washington Post columnist revealed other pillars of the Trump doctrine in one of the most colloquial and oddly stylistic statements on US foreign policy ever written.
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Some may argue that Black Kartel—the colloquial way fans refer to the artist and the records he made prior to his bleaching (the practice of lightening one's skin that is common, if controversial in Jamaica)—is a much stronger artist than the Kartel we see today.
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While the American electorate probably isn't ready for a debate about property relations and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, Sanders needs to escalate, finding rhetorical space between his colloquial invocation of "millionaires and billionaires" and a full-throated condemnation of bourgeois class enemies.
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There is no justification for any white or white-presenting Latinx person to continue dropping the N-word knowing how hurtful it still is to Afro-Latinx and black peers, among whom a wider and arguably more contentious debate over its use as colloquial reclamation remains.
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The White Helmets (which is streaming on Netflix) takes its title from the colloquial name of the Syria Civil Defense, a group of ordinary Syrian men — former builders, tailors, and artisans — who work heroically and tirelessly to extract victims from beneath the rubble in places like Aleppo.
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"He has a gut sense of what will play well with the Mexican people," said Duncan Wood, director of the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute, adding that political analysts often underestimate López Obrador's ability to connect with his constituents, whether through his slow-manner of speaking or colloquial dialogue.
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Although the noun itself is widely used as slang to describe the female anatomy in popular culture today, its colloquial origins can be traced all the way back to a 1655 erotic novel, which specifically calls out the uncanny resemblance between the shape of the fruit to genitalia.
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I would assume this is intentional, since plenty of smart women in their early twenties happen to be, like, colloquial in their language, and most writers are far better on the page than they are at the dinner table, or at parties, or when shopping for a dress.
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I've always hesitated a bit to call Twin Peaks a "feminist" show — at least in the colloquial definition of "feminist art," which usually just means something that either highlights a well-drawn female protagonist or explores the ways horrible things are brought upon women in a patriarchal society.
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"'Hydraulic fracturing,' easily gives way to the popular and colloquial 'fracking,' which is an ugly sounding word—used in place of swears in Battlestar Galactica for a reason," Gwen Arnold, assistant professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis, told Motherboard in an email.
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Reporters and media organizations found themselves not just advocating their own importance, individually and collectively — a fraught task even in a more forgiving environment — but pledging membership in, and solidarity with, the same colloquial "media" that Trump had just spent his entire campaign generalizing and vilifying to great effect.
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In between running his label Colloquial Sound Recordings and recording with a litany of other predominantly solo projects like Alluring, Aksumite, Dressed in Streams, Ornamental Headpiece, Purple Light, Secret Creation, and others, Master has released a staggering amount of recordings under his best-known guise, A Pregnant Light.
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The density of the connecting structures occupying the upper right side of the drawing made me think I was looking at a section of what writer William Gibson called the Sprawl, his colloquial name for a megalopolis that takes up the entire Northeast coast from Atlanta to Boston.
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The term, used as a colloquial way to refer to when Apple builds a native feature that effectively renders a third-party app or product useless, comes up every year as the company grows its OS offerings and introduces new capabilities worthy of your 30 or so minutes to update.
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But in the middle section, he sets this machinery aside and writes in an immersive, first-person voice, channeling his grandfather from the trenches of World War I. Where Hertmans's narrative style is precise, speculative and philosophical, the manner he adopts for his grandfather's voice is immediate, earnest and colloquial.
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Prose that until now has felt tolerably colloquial — a friend emailing you about his crazy year in Moscow ("the distances were unbelievable") — goes fully slack ("It was great"), and what has felt disarmingly garrulous turns, once again, picayune: With great pride, Andrei relates a multi-page chronicle of unclogging a drain.
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A feeling of entitlement and neglect ran through the program as Ashanti was expected to not only display his long-gestating and now "legitimized" work, but to explain it within both colloquial and academic terms to an amused audience with little framing from the introducing curator, aside from the pamphlet.
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In the UK's case, the government passed expanded state surveillance legislation at the end of last year — aka the Investigatory Powers Act (or, to give it its colloquial name, the 'Snoopers' charter') — which includes a provision requiring that ISPs retain web activity data for all their users for a period of 12 months.
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Perhaps it's telling that the video appears to feature two actors of Middle Eastern descent—they speak a colloquial Arabic—and as such maybe the Blaze is drawing on different cultural references when it comes to fraternal intimacy (it isn't uncommon for men to hold hands in the Arab world, for example).
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On Wednesday (just ahead of Black Friday), Beyoncé is bringing the holiday cheer with a mix of cool, fashion-forward pieces (priced from $35 for a T-shirt to $60 for a pullover) decorated with remixed colloquial sayings (think: "sis the season" and "holidayoncé") that are sure to make quite the statement.
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Khoong and her colleagues evaluated 100 sets of actual ER patient discharge instructions written in English, and rated them on readability; quality of diagnosis explanation, follow-up instructions, medication instructions, return precautions and greeting; medical jargon content; nonmedical nonstandard English issue, such as use of abbreviations, colloquial English, proper nouns and spelling issues.
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As the headman of Colloquial Sound Recordings, he and his many projects—from A Pregnant Light to Aksumite, Ornamental Headpiece, and more—thrive within the twilight nexus of visceral discomfort and smoldering intrigue, and his hardcore punk project Prison Suicide is no exception, nor is its caustic, breakneck new self-titled jawn.
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