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"idiom" Definitions
  1. [countable] a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words
  2. [uncountable, countable] (formal) the kind of language and grammar used by particular people at a particular time or place
  3. [uncountable, countable] (formal) the style of writing, music, art, etc. that is typical of a particular person, group, period or place

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"You are the only you that has ever lived; your idiom is the only idiom of its kind in all of existence," Thurman said.
" He added, "He just represented the quality, the insight and the dignity of a whole idiom, and by that idiom I don't mean Afro-Latin music; I mean American music.
But the idiom — a penny for your thoughts — lingered.
It's not meaningful to me within the black metal idiom.
This allowed him to play with Irish idiom, he said.
He was really into it , to use a modern idiom.
Morley leans on the idiom of surrealism throughout the show.
The idiom of angels pops up every semester, Dr. Sams says.
Despite the idiom, where there's smoke, there is not necessarily fire.
Three-quarters of those speak Quechua, the idiom of the Inca.
This strangeness is partly a result of MMT scholars' unconventional idiom.
Each track feels like an experiment in a different rhythmic idiom.
They will perform landmarks of the jazz idiom they helped originate.
So did his ability to thrive in almost any musical idiom.
For Soleimani, the idiom "what goes around comes around" held true.
"Getting there is half the fun" — or so the idiom claims.
But Springsteen strives to meet his chosen idiom more than halfway.
There's a reason sausage-making is the idiom for unsavory processes.
Whereas her "Ex Pluribus One" at Vail this summer built up an amazing tapestry of different overlapping dance styles — like different species in one landscape — "Dream" doesn't cohere: It just switches choppily from idiom to idiom.
Here's how the dangerous, but lucrative, job became a popular everyday idiom.
The concerto's chugging rhythms make Ginastera's lively atonal idiom feel accessible, understandable.
"Love is blind" is an idiom that's turned into a television show.
Trump's taunting "nyah-nyah"s are the idiom of threat and vengeance.
An "idiom" is a phrase peculiar to a specific language or place.
Americans. Murray extended the "Negro idiom" from an ethnic domain to an expansive
And what better idiom for the instruction that he's describing than the classics?
That's not a problem, as long as you remember one very common idiom.
To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
The idiom that describes one as "retreating into one's interiority" misrepresents the situation.
I hope I'm not being presumptuous by fitting Raghubir Singh into this idiom.
According to some scientific research, there could actually be some fact behind the idiom.
She set herself the challenge of putting that dinner party idiom to the test.
And this entire musical idiom is now encapsulated in one person: John Philip Sousa.
It is worth noting that these new glosses render the idiom "uncover nakedness" incoherent.
Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.
As such, it provided a shared idiom for thinking through matters of public concern.
Converse wrote mostly in a deceptively straightforward folk idiom that hasn't aged one bit.
Now, however, it often seems astoundingly vital: No dance idiom is more overwhelmingly sensuous.
" It's a more vivid way of saying, in the current idiom, that she "identifies.
Mr. Ratmansky's production is a rare achievement, bringing a historic dance idiom to life.
I can make out some words, thick with accent and idiom: womb, wash, taint .
They offer a distinct idiom as well as the opportunity for others to respond.
Together, they reveal a gathering storm: an artist restlessly in search of a new idiom.
But, someone has gone and turned this idiom into a real-life, delectable chocolate teapot.
But she has made the English trip along admirably with rhythm and its own idiom.
As they go idiom-hopping, they merge a little nostalgia and a lot of propulsion.
Languages constantly evolve, and curmudgeons like me are always taking umbrage at some new idiom.
The old idiom "putting a band-aid on a bullet wound" certainly comes to mind.
Epithets like "cancer whore" might be inelegant, but they were part of his native idiom.
"I'm a one-pot screamer," she said, an Australian idiom for a one-drink drunk.
Anesthesiologists (anesthetists in the British idiom) are the unsung heroes and heroines of modern medicine.
In Free Experience, Wayne introduced the window idiom with broken and partially boarded up panes.
Unfortunately for us, today's idiom remains the same: It has not taken inflation into account.
And he didn't succeed, and "seal the deal" is an idiom that means to achieve something.
Okay, that's obviously not an idiom, but it's a true story chronicled by Vice's Joseph Cox.
In fact, we'd even apply the whole "when pigs fly" idiom to such an unlikely occurrence.
The idiom "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is very applicable to freakish fast food.
" We have an idiom about this: We say we will "take the secret to the grave.
Today, rather than hiring American traitors, the Russians have trained trolls to mimic the American idiom.
"They're like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns," she said, using a Chinese idiom meaning extremely rare.
What does that do to a band that has always tried to define its own idiom?
"Gilded Cage" continues that idiom, even as it relies on prefab metal instead of found materials.
As a choreographer, however, she used her own more lyrical version of the Graham dance idiom.
" ■ 109A: MISERY is a "Company lover?" if you are familiar with the idiom "MISERY loves company.
Renewed chants of "Hong Kong, add oil" — a Chinese idiom that means "keep going" — filled the air.
First, it includes the phrase "freedom and whisky gang together," an idiom Claire frequently repeated to Jamie.
Kumar states that most VCs fall victim to the idiom, 'the squeeky wheel needs the most grease'.
The idiom seems oddly prescient now, given that it dates back to a time before the internet.
But he was intimately familiar with Scripture, and comfortable speaking in the idiom of Midwestern American Protestantism.
He is slowly creating his own idiom, though, somewhere between abstract and figurative painting, sculpture and installation.
There's an original score by Adam Crystal, contemporary-classical in idiom, with aspects of minimalism and melody.
He's trying to rend the fabric of whatever restraints are being placed upon them by the idiom.
Good things often come in small packages — but does that idiom apply when that package is lunch?
It's following the idiom through to its absurd conclusions where interesting things are more likely to happen.
As in 2008 concerts here, neither Mr. Gergiev nor the orchestra showed any particular feel for Debussy's idiom.
His work in this idiom was once unsparing in its aggression, but there's now more room for delicacy.
At 19A, "Hurry up!" you have an idiom from the century before last, I think: MAKE IT SNAPPY.
The plot has legs, and Locke's blues-infused idiom lends a strain of melancholy to her lyrical style.
Netflix took the idiom and applied it very literally to this dating show, which premiered on February 13.
These, by their nature, are oriented to the present — hence the almost clichéd "being in the moment" idiom.
But his use of the orchestra reveals a composer confident in his idiom, reaching out for new effects.
Though Anthony's work emanates from the folk art idiom, his works are unmistakably original in concept and execution.
FATHER JOHN MISTY "Pure Comedy" (Sub Pop/Bella Union) The idiom is cabaret piano ballad with electronic reinforcement.
Most of you have probably encountered the idiom "dance like no one is watching" at some point or another.
But that's the idiom of the film, and it's lovely, and they really say everything that's on their minds.
He conceded that there was an idiom, "to bear arms", which meant to belong to an organised military force.
Steve explained that the idiom went back to a hit novel and film and cultural touchstone in the 1950s.
The category was "Pie in the..." and his wife Shante Broadus had already answered "sky" (completing a common idiom).
Lee's high-lyric idiom, "undressing" its own claims to seductiveness, investigates its sources in the fear of physical threat.
But when Copland's music graced a CBS broadcast a half-century ago, it was in an entirely different idiom.
Muslet was born in Palestine but aggressively inhaled the idiom and drawled speech of his teenage years in Florida.
Novelty comes with the premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's "Metacosmos," a new work from a composer with a distinctive idiom.
But now it just seems stuck in his tired idiom, a brittle mix of thrusting hips and flexed hands.
Mr. Strickland spent years studying in majority-white evangelical schools, where he mastered the idiom of the Christian right.
Mr. Sewell took that as the jumping-off point for his ballet — but he decided to switch the idiom.
In the second, the idiom is ballet — more expansive, and with many more lifts than in most Balanchine ballets.
The exhibition considers the materiality of human presence through conceptually crisp conceits, which manifest in an exuberant visual idiom.
Aiming for Costache's idiom, I asked: Is it like high-bandwidth information versus a file that's compressed and thinned out?
Use one of these phrases: Using an idiom to question an idea is a subtle, smart way of questioning it.
Like other recent adaptations, "What if They Went to Moscow?" retains Chekhov's characters and structure, while modernizing circumstances and idiom.
It all starts to feel so universal, that we should probably change the idiom: It's as American as gun violence.
Although many abstract expressionists used modernism as a new beginning, Bowling was intent on capturing the lineage of its idiom.
The startup toy company Sphero appears to be employing this age-old idiom to its latest product, the Sphero Bolt.
Who makes that line even more clownish by padding it out with an idiom ("so far as I can see")?
An idiom is a phrase (a group of words) that means something different than what the words' individual meanings suggestl.
The result is an idiom of great spareness and simplicity: … But I am sure that he is not yet dead.
There was also a very refreshing lack of obscurity and idiom, and the entire grid had a great natural flow.
What he had to offer, as opposed to a philosophy of social transformation, was a new idiom of musical creation.
The floor pieces' "braids," made of commercial knit fabric waste collected from dumpsters, became Hammond's idiom for a lesbian aesthetic.
Shakespearean language aside, this seductive Hogarthian mandate — Lear retold in familiar idiom — appears to be fulfilled, alchemized into the topical.
At the same time, he's disillusioned with a party that can't find a political idiom comprehensible to Americans around him.
Take the old idiom about not wanting to see "how the sausage gets made" and flip it on its head.
On TikTok, where young people transformed into cowboys to its theatrically comic country boom-bap, it was a shared idiom.
And each of the other pieces, made between 1976 ("Radial Courses") and 2015 ("Canto Ostinato"), has its own distinct idiom.
The phrase actually has some literary origins according to Refinery29, but today, it's viewed as a cheesy and overused idiom.
The idiom "a picture is worth a thousand words" - comes true when you look at the photograph of the Ki monastery.
In the meantime, senior students have taken to heart from Mao Zedong's idiom: "Study hard and every day you will improve."
There is an odd little idiom in German that reads: "Everything has an end, apart from the sausage, which has two".
It doesn't mean to say there aren't still people playing in that idiom, but you get a lot of reputation afterwards.
Or, as proposed above, did he stop because the painting's formal extremities couldn't be resolved within the idiom of his time?
In short, Uber is a transportation service that calls itself a technology application, and it has become the latest global idiom.
You did graduate studies at Columbia University during the heyday of 12-tone music, but shifted toward a more tonal idiom.
Katie Stout (born 1989) applies a winsome, faux naïf idiom and a gently humorous touch to a wide range of materials.
Hanni El Khatib kicked ass in 2016, unleashing a volley of EPs that saw him experiment past the blues-rock idiom.
He writes in the knowing, slang-filled idiom of Shanghai's Shopping News, a gossipy English-language newspaper he quotes repeatedly throughout.
Her movement and her invention are always informed by inner feeling, even when she is working in the strictly classic idiom.
" But his actual words, an ancient Chinese idiom, are better translated, "If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.
The well-known idiom actually refers to the rare instance when there is a second full moon in a calendar month.
Past traumas are simply shaping forces that lead to, in the idiom of self-help, "defects of character" that cause criminality.
Though the Brown idiom is notable for the fluidity of its dance current, I love the angles with which it's punctuated.
The T-shirts he favors do little to conceal his tattoos, and he leans heavily on jailhouse idiom when he speaks.
It's a pulsating potpourri of racial invective, flamboyant street talk, cop rebop, and the wiiiiiiild American idiom at its most profane.
The bass, no mere timekeeper in an idiom where everything keeps its own time, was an abstraction, an idea, a force.
Toronto soul star Daniel Caesar's deft music fits that genre idiom, so his just released Tiny Desk show is a real treat.
Fewer errors of tense, intent and agreement, plus a better understanding and deployment of idiom make for a much more readable translation.
No, he was trying to use an idiom, and he used it clumsily, which leads to my bigger -- my bigger point here.
After going through every popular movie quote, song lyric, and American idiom imaginable here are the top 10 Easter eggs we've found.
The other is inventive, diverse and bleakly humorous—the idiom of the street, or what in Tanzania they call the kona (corner).
Avery messes up an idiom saying "your gut's in your throat" instead of "your heart's in your throat," and has a revelation.
For their own leaders to adopt this liberal idiom is more than the people who ended up in Trump's camp could stand.
Part of Khan's skill as a politician is having the right idiom for whomever he is speaking to at any given moment.
Locke writes in a blues-infused idiom that lends a strain of melancholy and a sense of loss to her lyrical style.
The record makes me further appreciate just how creative, expressive, and subtle a person can be while working in a popular idiom.
It turns out that the idiom harkens back to the Middle Ages, which is a ton of harkening if you ask me.
Six largish paintings (and one tiny one) manifest this new idiom with an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while a couple show their fangs.
At one stroke, she freed herself from both narrative and musical constraints, moving toward the hybrid idiom that would become her signature.
Mr. Kenny's "Dancing Back Strong the Nation," published in 1979, adhered to a more traditional idiom involving repetition reminiscent of ancient song.
Mary's inherent authority — that moral compass — was never compromised by the fact that she dressed in the basic idiom of her gender.
We're not told directly what that idiom is in the clues, but that just makes the hunting more fun, in my opinion.
The piece asks the viewer to reimagine what greatness in the American idiom can look like: specifically, a Caribbean, Hispanic, woman activist.
Though his later work changed dramatically, in the 1960s and '70s Lakner worked in a naturalistic idiom that ranged from expressionistic to hyperrealist.
And while it's definitely one strategy to adapt them to a contemporary idiom, other artists are feeling the pull of more recent icons.
JOHN WAYMOUTHMarblehead, Massachusetts As a quadcopter enthusiast, I was delighted to see you disregard the ancient crow idiom for describing straight-line distances.
In terms of pure creative space, that is certainly the idiom that I'm much more used to, in terms of just making stuff.
"The government is boiling soup on the same old nail," Mr. Meling said, using a Norwegian idiom for making something out of nothing.
Foccroulle's music, couched in a limber atonal idiom, suggested those eerie moments in dreams when one becomes half aware that one is dreaming.
Blame and grievance are their language, the language of the times, the grammar of Twitter, the idiom of Trump, the taste of bile.
Two common words in a familiar English idiom wouldn't normally attract this sort of pattern analysis: it's not how we tend to read.
The idiom often resembles, or borrows from, hip-hop style, with isolated movements of limbs and muscles passing like currents through the body.
Mr. Wuorinen gained a reputation as a combative proponent of 21989-tone composition, a cerebral idiom he mastered in hundreds of eloquent works.
Eat For the entirety of Prune's 20 years, I've confined myself — with pretty strict discipline — to cooking within a European-and-Mediterranean idiom.
Surrealism started in the 1920s as a notorious boys' club, but later generations of women working in this dreamy idiom stole the show.
"Apples and Oranges" hails from 1982 and is a pretty literal interpretation of that old idiom, but with more fruits in the mix.
You tell me what you want, in what idiom, in what voice you want to tell the story, and I'll make it go.
As the popular idiom suggests, blue moons are rare and refer to when there is a second full moon in one calendar month.
Unlike those choreographers, who initially rejected dance technique, Ms. Meehan insisted that highly trained dancers execute her own nonballetic idiom with refined precision.
The name translates as "north," a reference to the Spanish idiom meaning "losing the north," or acting in an erratic or misguided manner.
Sunny Murray, an influential drummer who was among the first to define a personal style in the free-jazz idiom, died on Dec.
Can it parse the nuance of an idiom, or scout the next bestselling novelist, or persuade a Supreme Court justice to change his mind?
When Brianna Bernard became pregnant with her first child, she fully embraced the "eating for two" idiom — and ended up with a 70-lb.
That makes sense, since the old-timey idiom "pigs in a clover" feels like an apt metaphor for the human visitors of the park.
The thinking behind the idiom, of course, is that the same amount of work can have a much greater effect when conditions are right.
"We will play it by ear," the source said, invoking an idiom that translates to blocking a punch or a kick as it comes.
NEC's system is built around an AI engine called NeoFace, which is part of the company's overarching Bio-IDiom line of biometric authentication technology.
Chick started off as a garden variety magazine cartoonist in the Virgil Partch mold, but stretched that genial idiom to encompass nightmarish Boschian imagery.
All the while, Arcángel showcases his somewhat nasal, Weezy reminiscent voice like it belongs with every hip-hop idiom—because it so clearly does.
The term "riding shotgun" or to "ride shotgun" became a popular idiom in the 1950s, appearing in many western movies, according to Etymology Dictionary.
The vernacular idiom that Hurston valued Wright and others deprecated as backward; her literary concern with romantic love was considered frivolous and even vulgar.
Today, the idiom has a new meaning thanks to a noteworthy uptick in the appearance of LED-light therapy face masks on — where else?
That turns out to be an idiom rich in humor, as fans of "Parks and Recreation" (speaking of small towns in Indiana) will recall.
It uses a Western contemporary idiom and Western instruments, played here by the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra, incisively conducted by Ken-David Masur.
One idiom researcher has traced it at least back to the British author P.G. Wodehouse in 1960, and perhaps to the early 20th century.
Only Mr. Ntsane, the guest trumpeter, refused to accommodate the idiom, playing with a thick, smoky lassitude and pulling against the hopped-up swing.
On his new album, "Have We Met," the idiom he chose is the reverberant, electronics-enhanced, early MTV tone of confidence with hidden misgivings.
Essay I was on the subway, watching a teenager text on his smartphone, when I realized that the idiom "all thumbs" might be doomed.
What made the original game a hit was its stroke of design genius: Rovio found in the slingshot a perfect idiom for a touch interface.
For investors, either idiom could apply to Chinese stocks in what is already shaping up to be a rocky ride for global markets this year.
Which reflects both the intelligence of adopting an easily accessible, everyday color as an idiom of opposition and how hard it will be to combat.
With that, a new idiom was born and "jumping the shark" is now used to define the moment when something successful begins to go downhill.
I think it's very difficult to go into a studio and make a record in the Led Zeppelin idiom that wasn't already done in 1972.
For painter, sculptor, installation and video artist Peter Wu, science fiction is the perfect idiom for examining the "strange new world" we are living in.
Still, it takes maturity and a strong sense of mission for a composer to absorb such influences and distill them into a fluent personal idiom.
Those recordings also mark a switch in idiom, featuring tight funk rhythms in lieu of the freewheeling swing of Green's jazz modernity of the sixties.
His tonal idiom could not hold its own against the rise of the avant-garde, and by the 1980s, performances of his music became scarce.
What this exhibition makes apparent, given its thematic focus, is its affinity with the visual idiom of protest, which relies more on wordplay than imagery.
It is clear from this exhibition that she had developed her own breakthrough idiom, which was not like anything else being done at the time.
Or is there something about using the contemporary idiom on social media to be snarky and dismissive that doesn't quite mesh with the presidential seal?
Their four children are, to use another slightly anachronistic idiom in reference to a story set mostly in the '60s and '70s, decidedly free range.
The idiom, used to describe someone who is crazy or irrational, derives its meaning from the behavior of hares at the beginning of breeding season.
For more than 65 years, his form of radical dance theater was a vehicle for historic artistic experimentation, with brave breakthroughs of color, idiom, content.
Have you wondered what you might use as the perfect, unimpeachable example if you had to explain the idiom to someone in just one second?
Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue.
This particular idiom of making — assembling nonreferential imagery into meta-pictures that also merely hint at description — manifests in several large, utterly engrossing collages at September.
You've probably heard the idiom of the fox guarding the hen house — but how about the one of the encrypted phone company run by drug lords?
A "wet blanket" is an idiom that means "party pooper" in some circles, but if you think about it, DEW can be a wet blanket, too.
Most vivid and revelatory are pieces such as "Boy," whose perspicacious turns and irreverent idiom conjure the rich, jagged textures of a childhood shadowed by loss.
He named the first store "The Golden Rule," on ode to the popular idiom that means to "treat others as you would like to be treated."
It must be nice to live among them Under a clear, blue sky In October, my trees Full of laughter and weeping, Plagued by an idiom.
"It seems that in contact with the piano Debussy could write freely, exploring the implications of his unique idiom in a completely uninhibited way," Walsh writes.
People would use the idiom to convey that they thought so highly of someone they would attend something as distasteful as a public hanging with him.
It's a version that has been widely praised for its lyricism and use of contemporary idiom, made even more vibrant here through the voice of Danes.
He used a Chinese idiom to characterize the move: killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, which means sending a warning by making someone an example.
Now, on its fourth album, the band is moving toward an idiom that's more flexible and contrasty yet just as gripping: Protomartyr's own post-post-punk.
The language of cinematic action — which Ms. Bigelow speaks as fluently and inventively as any living American director — is an idiom of feeling and visceral response.
Those of us who experienced trauma as children, often at the hands of bullies, felt old wounds open up just hearing Trump's fierce idiom of outrage.
But from what's been shown on the runways in both September and February, the suiting iteration of the moment is evolving out of its '80s power idiom.
These partial and indirect self-exposures draw upon the madcap, at times scatalogical, performance idiom for which Chang became known in the late nineties and early aughts.
Hamilton, by race-bending the Founding Fathers and having them speak in an idiom associated with the streets, is the kind of cultural remix they don't appreciate.
" But private health insurers allow so much fraud that prosecutors use an idiom to describe the rare person who gets caught: "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
And if comedy is just another idiom of language, is there truly a road to recovery for us when the options presented are either humor or aggression?
All three installations draw upon the visual idiom of roadside memorials and ghost bike shrines, in which a bricolage of symbolic and representational objects commemorates a tragedy.
So, writing off the page or writing away from things, there's something very challenging and interesting about conjuring an object that happens in another idiom, you know?
Ms. DuVernay is working within a familiar documentary idiom that weaves original, handsomely shot talking-head interviews with well-researched, occasionally surprising and gravely disturbing archival material.
All kinds of ethnic garb was fine, though I doubt the two presiding clerks were qualified to judge the spiffiness of each outfit in its own idiom.
There's an argument to be made for labeling Malkmus and Petkovic interlopers—especially after decades spent working within an idiom loaded up with ultra-masculine white stereotypes.
It could be tolerated to a degree, but only as a bracing hyperbole, appropriate to an accepted religious grammar — an idiom, that is, rather than an imperative.
Both of them frequently cited a Chinese idiom, "Protect the home—protect the country," and even seemed to view their work as a matter of patriotic duty.
We know better safe than sorry is the old adage, but if you call an ambulance out for a statue this idiom loses its wisdom a bit.
The core was built in 1923 by the noted Scottish architect Andrew Noble Prentice, who expanded upon the Cotswolds idiom with Arts and Crafts and Italianate flourishes.
Sometimes he sinks into the kind of syncopated six-beat groove that he and Jones had made into an idiom of its own with the Coltrane quartet.
What resulted — a kind of soundtrack to Zimbabwean life in the late 20th century — became known as its own idiom, called "Tuku music," after Mr. Mtukudzi's nickname.
To alter this dynamic by increasing the size of one partner in the relationship is to dismantle the familiar idiom of sweeping a woman off her feet.
Disputed amongst etymologists about the exact origin of the phrase, an elongated, arguably poetic version of the pejorative idiom "son of a bitch" can be accredited to Shakespeare.
For example, "it is raining cats and dogs" is an idiom that means it's raining heavily; it doesn't mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky.
Also, given the GIF looping to the right of this article, I'm starting to have some serious doubts about my use of the "on the one hand" idiom.
Likewise, virtue signaling is an effective ideological idiom that psychologists say adopts a strategic expression of indignation to assume the shape of moral outrage most palatable to audiences.
Few attempt an accurate representation of the speech of a bygone era, seeking rather to forge their own idiom to give the reader the impression of that time.
She noted the often-cited idiom "to kill a chicken to scare the monkey," and said even the uncertainty around Ms. Fan's case would have a chilling effect.
Whitman did not one day set aside the hack journalism and cheap fictions of his journeyman years in favor of a brand new idiom for our American literature.
So by the time she arrived on the stage of the Met this fall to sing "Anna Bolena," she sounded like a singer who was comfortable with the idiom.
It seeks to convey the idea of a modern nation, one comfortable with its history but also capable of expressing itself in a contemporary idiom on a grand scale.
In the wake of the spectacular human tragedy of Jonestown (from which the oft-quoted idiom about Kool-Aid comes), we've defaulted to seeing cults as homicidal and suicidal.
Coming events include an exploration of Carnatic music, the idiom of southern India, on Tuesday, March 29, and, on April 13, a lineup mixing Cuban rhythms with raga melodies.
Never has that idiom been truer than right now for Democratic campaigns -- both those for president and those tasked with trying to win back the Senate majority in 2020.
Ms. Mahanta ended her recital (in the Sattriya idiom, from the northeastern state of Assam) in male attire as one of the demon kings of mythology and his son.
WBGO (20193 FM) is arguably the best jazz station in the world, and its fate speaks to the broader challenges facing the popularity of jazz, that uniquely American idiom.
Obviously, the idiom requires one to share said thought aloud — but since we want to maximize our thought to money conversion, we'll count all thoughts (internal or external) here.
The idiom, if you haven't already guessed, is "Killing two birds with one stone," which is suggested in Mr. Agard's grid in the clues at 35- and 37-Across.
A high tide on Miami Beach tide once stranded an octopus in a parking garage, as if to replace the "canary in the mine" idiom with something far stranger.
Those who mocked Pedro Martinez for saying the Yankees were his "daddies" often did not account for his efforts to use a modern idiom in a language not his own.
" He speaks Poirot-ese, a combination of French idiom and English exclamation with pointed little asides, exemplified by this passage in the story "The Adventure of the 'Western Star'": "'Ah!
Not only is McInerney's prose ripe with foul language and blasphemous ­curses delivered in the impenetrable local idiom, but her style is so flamboyantly colorful it can't always be contained.
There were, of course, exceptions: "I'm going up the boohai in a matchbox to shoot pukekos" was an idiom lost on me no matter how many times Bob explained it.
Between 573, when he began drawing in a Surrealist vein, and 257, when his drawing was published in View, Foy mastered an idiom that was being superseded by Abstract Expressionism.
She can veer into stereotype (too many of her sentences are punctuated with "Aye"), but she has an idiom all her own, her own funny way of seeing the world.
Tom Wolfe wrote of that time in the best-selling 250 book "The Right Stuff," a phrase for coolness in the face of danger that has passed into the idiom.
In Moscow, dancers at the Bolshoi came to embody an expressive, nationalistic idiom of dance, one that was opposed to the aristocratic refinement of their counterparts in French-influenced Saint Petersburg.
The work was called "L'Esprit d'Escalier" ("The Spirit of Stairs"), which is also a French idiom referring to the predicament of belatedly coming up with the perfect reply in a conversation.
" That idea was translated into Kohan's idiom in Season 2: a prisoner whose daughter has recently given birth crudely tells her, "Talk to the baby, so she doesn't grow up stupid.
What's more, many labels now compete in the rejiggered preppy idiom Mr. Sternberg favored, as well as the more streetwear-inflected one dearer to Mr. Feder, Mr. Hodel and Mr. Weber.
McMaster was careful to couch these admonitions in the realist idiom of narrow self-interest, telling his troops that such hostile sentiments did "the enemy's work for them," by radicalizing Iraqis.
The decline in public libraries and the rise of tablets have made books less popular, but this age-old idiom still remains true: you can't judge a book by its cover.
For the project, which has taken eight years from design to completion, Mr. Othoniel sought to stay within the Romanesque stylistic tradition, translated into his own idiom of colorful glass beadwork.
Trump's natural idiom is vulgarity, and the targets of his ire—Colin Kaepernick, "shithole countries," any African-American journalist who asks him a tough question—are clearly not chosen at random.
Mr. Smith's introduction to Mr. Brubeck, another Mills College student, came at the behest of Milhaud, who encouraged them in their pursuit of an idiom that incorporated classical and jazz techniques.
With "Babylon," the musical idiom of which is complex and demanding, he said he was lucky to have worked with the Staatsopers in Munich and Berlin, two of Germany's finest companies.
Play It Loud does its best to present rock as a still-living musical idiom, but the show's emphasis falls heavily on the three decades of the 1960s through the 1980s.
And though he writes in an unabashedly atonal idiom, Mr. Wuorinen often structures his music in such a way that particular notes are frequently reiterated, providing the ear with subtle guideposts.
Mr. Ford, a fashion lifer with past lives at Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, where he helped pioneer provocation as a contemporary fashion idiom, believes in setting a mood, thickly applied.
When he graduated in 1998, Liu worked as a software engineer, first at Microsoft, and then at a start-up called Idiom Technologies, where he met his wife, Lisa Tang Liu.
Mr. Cotton also won several W. C. Handy International Blues Awards (since 2006 known as the Blues Music Awards) long considered among the highest accolades for musicians working in that idiom.
First used by English statesman Sir Thomas More in his 1522 book Four Last Things, the idiom "A penny for your thoughts" has retained the same meaning for nearly 500 years.
"It's got me round the twist," said Martin Herglotz, 59, using an idiom for "crazy" in referring to the assault on Mr. Jozwik, whom he had met at a barbecue last year.
This grandiloquent action, an archetypal example of ballet classicism, is a crucial transaction within supported adagio, that singularly momentous idiom: With the man's assistance, a female dancer blooms all the more fully.
Eventually, as a resident director at the Belvoir theater in Sydney, he began reworking the plays entirely — "sampling and remixing," as he put it — modernizing circumstance and idiom to show myths endure.
Dustin -- who's made headlines the past several years for his criminal case and other unpleasant reasons -- suggests his snubbing is like that idiom about cutting off one's nose ... or something like that.
Influenced by transformative composers like Janacek, Bartok, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Mr. Husa evolved from an early neo-Classical idiom through experiments with atonality, serialism, microtonality and indeterminacy to reach his distinctive style.
For example, 17A might have answered itself if clued as "Bugs Bunny catchphrase," and 26A, another idiom, didn't jump out at me (but rather limped in after I'd figured out the trick).
The natural idiom of video online is the clip: a snappy, snackable hit of video that, when done well, is something delightful or surprising to share with the people in your life.
In a report on August 11th, the People's Bank of China seized on an idiom derived from his road-building experience: it had "shaved off mountain peaks and filled valleys" in managing liquidity.
Franklin and his friends, Max (Tommy Dorfman), who is white, and Bellamy (the very funny Kahyun Kim), who is Asian, all speak in the studiedly slouchy idiom that is native to such scenes.
On Wednesday, the most alluring work is the local premiere of Daniil Trifonov's Piano Concerto, a wonderfully over-the-top piece in the idiom of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff played by the pianist himself.
The dog and caravan idiom is a favorite when North Korean propagandists want to dismiss America as an inconsequential mutt yapping at what they call their country's surging march toward mastering nuclear armaments.
Language was "a way of getting out of myself," Waldrop writes, while remaining "irredeemably between cultures" (her native German, the American idiom of her artistic maturity) and words: the gaps that await gardening.
It's always satisfying to see a roundly reviled idiom reanimated by a visual intelligence keen enough to recognize that there's more work to be done, and fearless enough to press ahead with it.
"We're looking forward to a new lease on life, to use an overused idiom, and restarting and being able to build a sanctuary for our children and our family in north America," he said.
The unforeseen wrinkle was that the translator spoke only Farsi and Spanish, the first language of most of my students and, of course, the idiom of the country where we all happened to be.
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, who have played a married couple before, are together again in the second season of this idiom-inspired Canadian sitcom about a husband and wife's riches-to-rags misery.
The president's capricious employ of his native idiom, his fractured syntax and streaming non sequiturs are challenging enough for Anglophones, so imagine the difficulties they pose to foreigners: How, exactly, do you translate "braggadocious"?
While Mr. Frank had traveled across the country to capture happened-upon moments in ordinary life, Avedon's idiom was the portrait, with which he was equally intent on telling a deeper truth about America.
Mr. Eotvos's haunting score, which folds hints of pop and jazz into a Modernist idiom and boldly combines sung and spoken lines, gets at the emotions coursing within the characters and beneath the politics.
Not only does the opaque idiom of Minecraft seem infinitely rich in their hands, but when Minecraft — and now Stardew — come up on their screens, they intuitively grasp their locations and purpose in nonspace.
Or that another black innovator, Elijah McCoy, the son of runaway slaves, had designed an industrial lubricating device so highly valued by machinists that the demand for it inspired the idiom "the real McCoy"?
The future-facing idiom of the Bauhaus, the German design school founded, in 23, by Walter Gropius, is now antique, but its distinct vision of modern life is not a thing of the past.
And I couldn't help but speculate: What if the idiom were economically redeemable not just for musings spoken aloud, but the thousands of rapid-fire internal thoughts that go through my mind each day?
For Ms. Chin, 55, a South Korean composer based in Berlin, Mr. Yun's personal idiom was an important source of inspiration despite the fact that her generation had little contact with traditional Korean music.
A few years later, a spontaneous experiment in placement yielded his first wall-based sculpture — the idiom for which he would become somewhat better-known by way of exhibitions at O.K. Harris and elsewhere.
Elia Alba, in The Beat Goes On at the SVA Chelsea Gallery — whose installation is the first you encounter walking through the gallery — uses this idiom, describing Paradise Garage as a place of sanctuary.
From enslavement to persecution—servitude to survival—she ultimately created, in Breslaw's words, "a new idiom of resistance by overtly submitting to the will of her abuser while covertly feeding his fears of a conspiracy."
Her new house, in the quiet Makiki Heights area above the city, designed in a regional idiom combining Modernism with traditional Chinese decorative details, offered a stunning view of lower Honolulu and the Pacific Ocean.
" Best line Pick any of the lines from the aforementioned scene or just pat Robert on the back for reviving the old idiom: "You have no more chance than a cat in hell without claws.
During his tenure, Mr. Vasiev raised the profile of the company and expanded its repertory, and the choice of Mr. Bigonzetti was seen as a departure from the largely classical idiom that Mr. Vasiev espoused.
While a work such as the Philadelphia Symphony stands firmly in a neoclassical idiom, its wistful lyricism points to Mahler, whose influence came out in full colors in the cantata "An die Nachgeborene" ("To Posterity").
And in a contemporary context, with their shiny-bright replication of an earlier idiom (and the color in this canvas is startlingly clear), they offer a fascinating slant on the debate around originality and commodification.
His "Sea of Sorrows" choreography is a skillful imitation of the idiom widely established by Jiri Kyliàn: There's little human individuality, since everyone onstage is homogenized by the same emotion — in this case, inexplicable grief.
If nothing else, it's fascinating to hear an '80s interpretation of a '30s musical idiom in Chris Walker's orchestrations; the strings and the winds often seem to be on opposite teams in a frisky scrimmage.
Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Lebanese artist and one of the first abstractionists in the Arab world, whose sense of line and form — derived from Islamic art — brought a new idiom to modernism, died on Jan.
"While we reserve the right to take reciprocal measures, we're not going to downgrade ourselves to the level of irresponsible 'kitchen' diplomacy," Mr. Putin said, using a common Russian idiom for quarrelsome and unseemly acts.
Populist in idiom rather than intent, the B.J.P. appears to be using these two states as laboratories in which to test the chances of a broader conservative move to limit the political participation of the poor.
Her style extends to the postmodern rococo of her set design and the bewildering variety of costumed characters she plays on her show, giving us something like Platonic philosophical dialogues in the idiom of social media.
The term itself is a Latin idiom that literally translates to I wish to be dissolved, which, in a Christian context, derives from the desire to end life on Earth in order to be with God.
But Mr. Adams practices a gentler, more ingratiating — an over all more American — form of eclecticism than does the Dutch Mr. Andriessen, whose idiom is generally harder-edged, even when he's quoting pop standards or tango.
"When I went to America in 1958 I knew Elizabethan English better than the contemporary idiom — you were lucky if I didn't use 'multitudinous' or 'incarnadine' instead of 'many' or 'red,'" he told The Paris Review.
His testimony before congressional committees on the court's annual budget often contained impassioned discourses on how the justices distinguish themselves from the political branches by their objective legal reasoning and their devotion to a unique idiom.
That's primarily what's happening when we attempt to think in a future-looking way about the humanities, is that the idiom of the culture is so prejudiced against life-specific values, like social and common good.
And any of its spring seasons show at least two dissimilar stylistic interpretations of the 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa (1818-1910), with Mr. Ratmansky's stagings contributing an important if controversial notion of period idiom.
Manhattan has a long tradition of formal Indian restaurants, often overseen by cooks who learned to present their country's cuisine in a fine-dining idiom by hard-core training in India's extensive system of hotel kitchens.
"Some people have criticized me, saying I am washing the country's dirty laundry in public," he said, using a Chinese idiom that refers to the belief that a family's problems should not be aired in public.
The communications base was promptly abandoned after only a few years, and inspired the idiom "going around the bend"—referring to the island's location around Musandam Peninsula—as a way to express the descent into insanity.
There were also more traditional expressions of the jazz idiom, meaning not just the revivalist bounce of the Ghost Train Orchestra at the Django, but also streamlined bop, Afro-Latin churn and smart, self-aware fusion.
It was tempting to just keep going, but then I thought, what kind of reporter of wordplay would I be if I didn't capture this living idiom and bring it to the column to show you?
Though there are few films of Southeast Asian dance before the 1960s, here is a 1933 one of a Balinese dancer, bare-breasted, not performing a formal dance but demonstrating the exercise technique for the idiom.
And the phrase  — an idiom that dates back to the 1800s — started to apply to economics with President Herbert Hoover's creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a government agency tasked with assisting failing banks, in 1932.
But where those kings were all fierce combatants, Vendrick is an idiom writ large: A man who shall literally walk in circles until the shinbones rot out from under him, each step marking the seconds until eternity.
In both of these premieres, Mr. Khoury repeated an unappealing choreographic tendency: No matter the idiom or the music, his movement incorporates a slow-motion prowl, whether in a seductive duet or a raunchier pas de trois.
Time is money might be an overused idiom, but it's unbelievably easy to become over-scheduled, and if I spend my entire day in meetings, I have little time to devote to my own tasks and priorities.
Despite the indelible association of his work and specifically the LOVE series with Pop art, Indiana fought that association and considered himself more purely a hard-edge painter who had made some work in the Pop idiom.
Reviewing the performance, The New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg, who in general resisted thorny modern music employing 12-tone techniques, was enthusiastic about Martino's "whizbang virtuoso piece in the modern idiom," as he called it.
While their version conforms broadly to the original, it is continually infused with impish humor; it's as much a spoof of "Othello" as it is a serious attempt to translate the play into a contemporary musical idiom.
Dominick Argento, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who wrote dramatically and stylistically eclectic operas in a mostly conservative idiom that was embraced by audiences but not always by critics, died on Wednesday at his home in Minneapolis.
An idiom might be a lovely turn of phrase, but the more common it is in a pool of speakers, the more it simply serves as a shorthand for something that might take more time to spell out.
A striking example of the adaptability of his songs was "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," recorded by the Cincinnati doo-wop group the Casinos and translated into an urbane Nashville idiom by Eddy Arnold a year later.
These books are part of the broader literary genre of sexual transgression, the home of writers like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, his partner in idiom the Marquis de Sade, Algernon Charles Swinburne, D. H. Lawrence, and so on.
Among his recent forays into presenting ballet in sneakers — each in a quite different rhythmic idiom — I'm especially haunted by the duets in "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming," which had its world premiere at San Francisco Ballet in April.
Whether grime will establish its own audience in the United States (despite the rappers' thick South London accents) or turn out to be one more underground idiom momentarily sampled by the likes of Drake is an open question.
In the communal idiom of Gawker and its viewers, Hogan was as preposterous a cultural figure as Donald Trump was an absurd political figure—but the rest of the country, it turned out, was speaking a different language.
It may serve you well, when experiencing this panicky emotion, to hesitate before allowing it to spur you toward impulsivity, and call to mind the German idiom Torschlusspanik ist ein schlechter Ratgeber — that is, "Torschlusspanik is a bad adviser."
Miguel Cabrera remains a wonderful hitter in the old idiom, hammering doubles and trudging around the bases, but even his success has a nostalgic tint to it as the aging Detroit Tigers sit in fourth place in their division.
"I was writing plays, one-acters, about musicians who were speakers of the idiom I loved most: black American male speech, full of curse words," he wrote in an autobiographical essay for the reference work Contemporary Authors in 2004.
The idiom of the show, which Atwood invented in her book, has become a way to communicate that you know that things have gotten really bad—that this timeline feels like that terrifying thing you saw on streaming television.
This piece, an outlier, adopts a deliberately neo-Classical, almost neo-Baroque idiom and abounds in contrasts: Lacy, lyrical passages for piano often lead to stretches of tangled, industrious counterpoint; warm, rich string sonorities segue into flinty, brassy harmonies.
In "Variations," he and two colleagues, Brittany DeStefano and Gabe Winns Ortiz, bring off marvels to excerpts from Bach's Goldberg Variations, mostly tying a footfall to every keyboard note and yet always revealing fresh resources of pressure, idiom, physicality.
And so, on to Mr. Reich's "Piano Phase": It was easy to imagine how the insistent jangling repetition might grate on the ears of listeners not particularly attuned to the Minimalist idiom — or, for that matter, to the harpsichord.
It's the work of Botnik, a new AI-assisted humor application that scours various types of human-created, word-crowded content—from season-three Seinfeld scripts to Yelp reviews to Bezos' shareholder letters—in order to build predictive, idiom-specific keyboards.
The basic idea of Lilt's tool is that the system provides translations for the next sentence or paragraph, as a reference for structure, tense, idiom and so on that the translator can consult and, at least potentially, work faster and better.
If you believe the age-old idiom that there's "no such thing as bad publicity," it's hard to discount the fact that this controversy puts eyes right back on Trainor and her album before its official release on May 13.
By 1967, the duo was known as the country's leading tropicalistas, exponents of a permissive new musical idiom—Tropicalismo—that grafted British and North American rock on to the gentler song-forms of what was known as música popular brasileira (MPB).
If the Classics Illustrated idiom has suggested that comics versions of literary works are a kind of cheat sheet — and hence less valuable — a new crop of adaptations reveals the efficacy and the complexity of graphic takes on celebrated stories.
He enrolled in Kenneth Koch's poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research, where, already under the spell of Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat poets, he found in Frank O'Hara a congenial poetic idiom, vernacular and free.
At times the dance idiom is based on that of Asian dervishes, with the arms and upper body holding a formal, side-tilting position while the dancer revolves on the spot — now slowly, now fast, though never for a long time.
Really, it was attuned to the vernacular way of the world, close both to the way people have been moving to popular music since the 1960s and to the "democratic dance" idiom devised by leading makers of New York postmodern dance.
"Mom's Old Fashioned Root Beer" features an old woman exposing her thighs to a man who looks on with a toothy grin, using innuendo and the idiom of advertising to suggest how commerce can exploit base desires and simple aspirations.
In oral storytelling traditions, including the Appalachian Jack tales Hagy evokes here, story is understood not as a museum specimen but as a living, growing organism, constantly cultivated to serve both the cultural needs and the idiom of the moment.
When he was six, during the height of the Great Depression, Stilley's father left him, along with his mother and six siblings, giving them a brutal farewell: "You can just root, hog, or die" (an old idiom about self-reliance).
Nearly three decades since redefining the sound of televised college football with an evocative idiom and a storyteller's brio, he insists that it is time to see whether the young bucks in his shadow are as talented as they think.
The clue in the Thursday, June 14 puzzle read "What gets the show on the road, for short?" but the crossword was not hinting at hurrying someone along, as the idiom "Let's get this show on the road" usually means.
He rendered the poems of such classic Chinese writers as Su Tung-p'o, Po Chu-I and Du Fu and the Japanese poets Ryokan and Masaoka Shiki in a contemporary idiom informed by his wide reading in modern American poetry.
What we are seeing in that Chinois on Main anecdote is the moment when cooks of European descent learned they could translate Asian ideas into their own idiom and sell it for more money, more prestige, than the real thing.
Hence the conjugation "I is," the double negative "don't put no trust" — and, best of all, the wonderful idiom "carry-go-bring-come," in which four verbs are welded together by hyphens, Voltron-style, to form a single, powerful adjective.
He's playing with the idiom of the women's picture, but he self-consciously approaches the genre with expressionistic flourishes — ripples and blasts of color, luminous and diffuse lighting — that show his debt both to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and to old Hollywood.
One of the incongruities in Colorado's marijuana business is how professionals new to the trade adopt the Mendocino idiom without either irony or any particular reverence, the way their clothes absorb the plant's scent after a few hours on site.
Just this week, I overheard someone in Los Angeles, the Liberal Elite Capital of the World, use the phrase "sell down the river" with a blitheness that clearly demonstrated they had no idea of the terrible history and impact of the idiom.
" Because Ms. McIntyre comes from modern dance, "her whole idiom and way of being is completely different," said Ms. Johnson, who believes that it is important for ballet dancers "to understand a different way of moving and a different source for their work.
In the late 1980s, though, a new style emerged in Segedin's work that seems aptly described as his "mature style," not only because he has continued to work in this idiom, but because it coalesces all of the themes of his earlier work.
Part of what makes this dance idiom recognizable is a certain narrowness, and over the course of an hourlong show, as the same moves kept returning, I periodically found myself wondering if Mr. Harris and the dancers had run out of material.
" Kaplan, a longtime entertainment journalist and the author of a well-regarded two-volume biography of Frank Sinatra, is generally on surer footing with Berlin's lyrics, which he describes as "modernism on the hoof: startling formal innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal idiom.
The best cooking in Oslo is often found at the growing number of friendly, casual and, for this expensive country, relatively affordable gastro pubs and modern bistro-style tables that serve food inspired by an edgier contemporary idiom of French cooking, la bistronomie.
It is told in a narrative that is a dictionary of Jewish jokes, and which, because of Roth's prodigious mastery of a literary Jewish idiom, adds up to probably the best Jewish joke ever told — bizarre, exaggerated, visceral, profane and wildly funny.
She took naturally to Hawkins's new fluid dance idiom and shared his inspiration from Japanese theater and aesthetics, just as her love of the outdoors in a California childhood led her to share Ms. Halprin's early concern for the health of the planet.
Lucas ups the musical ante, of course—while respecting the cinematic idiom, his Gibson acoustic and Sesame Street music director Joe Fiedler's trombone prod an active rhythm section as everyone adds more spritz and oomph than would have made sense in a moviehouse.
Although the stated reasons for the dramatic mass suicide are not often remembered, the method of self-annihilation certainly is: since 1978, the idiom "drinking the Kool-Aid" has been used to denote behavior that exhibits blind and unquestioning obedience to an individual or organization.
Modern artists, they saw, innovate by breaking fixed barriers between popular entertainment and avant-garde experiment, creating a dynamic, circular exchange of forms and meanings, with what begins in a popular idiom altered in an art milieu, only to return to its original realm, transformed.
In fact, the song made the idiom popular and part of the vernacular, but if you didn't know where it was from, it was originally recorded by Johnny Mercer in 1944 and later sung in the film "Here Come the Waves" by Bing Crosby.
According to the museum, the title of the work and this exhibition references a Japanese idiom that relates to the process of rejuvenation: an octopus can chew off a damaged tentacle in times of desperation and grow back a new one in its place.
What makes it unlike any other is its language — a version of English as it might be spoken by people who had never seen words or place names written down, an idiom among the ruins of half-remembered scientific jargon, folklore and garbled history.
"We always love to say in editorial meetings an idiom or proverb in Malay: 'If there's a pound of flour, and just one strand of hair, you pull the hair without disturbing the flour,'" he said, explaining that means being critical without creating a stir.
With its arresting textures, made up of contrasting layers of full-bodied and feathery string sounds, and kinetic swirls of notes that gradually build up bite in the course of a movement, this work is an interesting translation of Ms. Monk's vocal style into an instrumental idiom.
""They're not secular invocations they don't happen to name recognized deities, but there is no requirement that a prayer giver name recognizes a deity to deliver a prayer to a higher power invoking blessing and so forth in the idiom of prayer - that's that's the only requirement.
When he drops a shoulder and rises for a jump hook, it seems almost like an act of homage, as if he feels a duty to preserve some old back-to-the-basket idiom even as he enjoys the freedoms provided by an increasingly spread-out era.
International development scholar Ananya Roy argues that informality is an idiom of planning itself: By informality I mean a state of deregulation, one where the ownership, use, and purpose of land cannot be fixed and mapped according to any prescribed set of regulations or the law.
The choice of Mr. Bigonzetti, 55, who works in a contemporary ballet idiom, over other contenders like the La Scala principal dancer Roberto Bolle or the former Paris Opera Ballet étoile, Laurent Hilaire, is nonetheless a surprise, since La Scala Ballet has long maintained a largely traditional classical repertory.
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. "Motherfuckers want their cake and to stuff their fucking face"—so says Kano on the freestyle he delivered on BBC Radio 1Xtra's 'Fire in the Booth' yesterday, swiftly taking an idiom you thought you knew and making it a million times better.
This comes through in the "noise" material I make, in the "dance" material I make, in the music inspired by hip-hop or video game music, and especially in the sound collage idiom, which I think has the most freedom for more randomized recombination and juxtaposition of sounds.
The Greek word "logos," which simultaneously indicated "language" and "rationality," gave further validation to that premise: Those who did not share the Greek idiom were viewed as inferior Others who lacked the intellectual talents that had made possible the free and self-ruled society that the Greek polis represented.
So when Shantelle told Wesley of her plan to put a hot dog bun in the oven—a play on the classic idiom referencing a pregnancy—they knew it was the perfect way to break the news to their good-humored mother who always rolls with the pranks the family plays.
A lyric soprano with a voice as flexible as it is rich, she is also a fine actress whose instinctive feel for the Gilbert and Sullivan ingénue idiom — play it straight with just a sly wink peeking out from the batting eyelashes — makes her every scene and song a joy.
I haven't figured out who's in the jazz combo that backs "Illah Engulek Di Elkalma," but I love the way her easy mesh with the idiom segues abruptly into one where the sub-Saharan Seydu softens her dry wail only to be overtaken in turn by a searing Sahrawi haul.
Blake wasn't the best player on the court—Porter Jr. is very good, even if he is a little dull— but he was clearly the one who was most in control of his idiom, and unmistakably the one who seemed most bored by the mere act of being excellent at basketball.
Landon's story has arresting plotlines, and her writing ticks a lot of our current culture's boxes: She wrote in a Romantic idiom that prized discreetly personal artistic expression, but with the vim of a Grub Streeter, producing a true mountain of poems, novels, essays and literary annuals in her short career.
The people in question do not look the same, and the tagline that runs in the corner of the ads—"The more places and cultures you know, the more you respect the differences"—suggests that the intention is to promote empathy and the time-worn idiom of walking in someone else's shoes.
Gauri Lankesh's ex-husband, the journalist Chidanand Rajghatta, describes Lankesh Patrike — the name, in Kannada, simply means "Lankesh's newspaper" — as "a weird mixture of high literary essay combined with low political tattle," like an unlikely merger of The New Yorker and The New York Post, but with a delightful idiom all its own.
Fosse changed movies and Broadway forever, inventing an original American dance idiom: syncopated, tiny, isolated movements with shades of burlesque and showbiz with a capital S. "He added a dark sparkle, which is a hard thing to do in dance, to add negative feelings to something exuberant and vital," Mr. Wasson told me.
It's unfortunate that the most seemingly feminist offering I saw this year, Neha Mondal Chakravarty's recital, addressed the same Hindu mythological figure — the strong-voiced heroine Draupadi, with her five husbands — as last year's most feminist item, by Janaki Rangarajan; both were in the Bharatanatyam idiom, and both featured more speech than dance.
The story starts off like a documentary whose narrator is looking back on the phenomenon, but in the course of its 30 pages, it drifts through a sex scene, a psychedelic depiction of a SexCoven trip, "screenshots" of a digital video and more, with each sequence presented in a different visual idiom.
These are handsome exercises in the idiom of their day, but the most impressive, and inventive, work seems to break out, fully formed, in 1978 — the year that produced all of the tape pieces in the main gallery space as well as the epic oil-on-linen "Each Day," measuring 6 by 333 feet.
In the poem above, with its ampersands and strong enjambments, its knowing alliterative excesses, I hear Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit priest who jury-rigged his verse to express personal turmoil, and Hart Crane, whose gentleness was expressed in an American idiom full of thunderclap, and Allen Ginsberg, who loved and learned from them both.
The sense you get, upon reaching this room, is that whatever Johns carried away with him from his initial encounter with Munch — alienation, isolation, and existential horror are possible guesses — has been, if not purged, then liberated from the confines of single motifs, generating a newfound combinatory idiom that could take him anywhere and everywhere.
He bucked performance traditions; transcribed music by composers who could seem an odd fit for the organ (including Stravinsky, who had dismissed the organ by saying that "the monster never breathes"); wrote ambitious organ works in his own idiom; and helped design new organs that challenged conceptions of how the instrument should look and sound.
Trying to characterize what ties together the five artists in Subliminal Shifts, the press release issued by Tracy Williams is more open ended: This presentation unveils an assemblage of artists living and working in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Chicago, all of whom predominantly practice an abstract idiom, investigating paint through a lens that is entirely distinct.
Part of the attraction of Ms. Belanger's work is how it conjures art history: Salvador Dalí's lobster phone; Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered teacup; Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures; Man Ray's objects wrapped in felt; and pieces by Evelyne Axell, Marisol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tom Wesselmann, Brian Calvin, Al Hansen and many others working in the Pop idiom.
Landon's work in this idiom, part of an effort to dislodge herself from Jerdan's financial control, highlights the challenges that rapidly changing literary markets posed for writers: Landon's musical ear made her a success in this new market, but the demanding production schedule meant that the verse she composed for it became increasingly rote and forgettable.
" And this is from the start of the review by the novelist and critic Stacey D'Erasmo in Rolling Stone: "Ever since Joni Mitchell spread her free-verse wings, many a female singer-songwriter has tried to master the introspective idiom only to sink into the swamp of banality or shoot off into some chilly, abstract emotional ozone.
Whereas the idiom of the best-known Childs dances has the performers traveling (with vertical carriage, of course) through space, the solos of "Pastime" feature one dancer balancing on one flat foot, and another sitting, legs raised, in an elasticized band of fabric while changing her profile from side to side; each performer slowly stretches and flexes one leg.
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"This is the sort of rhetoric that one encounters at the bare beginnings of a process that can last years, and of course the only processes that have been run with North Korea on the nuclear issue have come a cropper," said a former U.S. official involved in talks with North Korea who spoke on condition of anonymity, using an idiom meaning failed.
Ironically, he pushed the idiom forward by embracing the genre-agnostic philosophy that Frankie Knuckles used to create house in the first place, expanding that sound's hard four-on-the-floor beats and electronic leads with soul-indebted vocals, jazzy piano lines, and the dusty boom-bap that defined hip-hop's golden age, which was then in the process of unfolding.
Yet it's likely that he was saying something that many of his fans, particularly those who discovered him through Bieber, or who took seriously the trials of "White Iverson," accept unquestioningly: that hip-hop is an idiom, a stylistic flourish, a way to wear your hair, not a history or a tradition to which one pays homage, or at least lip service.
It wasn't great Gerring — most of her best work is on the cusp between athletic pedestrianism and Merce Cunningham modern-dance style — but it showed Ms. Bouder and Ms. Mearns dancing unlike their usual selves (no point work), often unlike each other (this was largely a duet of simultaneous and differing solos), and both uncompromisingly going full out to master a new idiom.
Among the moderns, avid collectors of folk or "primitive" art such as Elie Nadelman and Yasuo Kuniyoshi created works that were indebted to the untutored artists they cherished; Louis Eilshemius and Florine Stettheimer renounced their formal training and embraced a naive idiom, though to a mixed reception (Stettheimer was devastated by the response to her lone gallery exhibition during her lifetime).

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