Wadsworth illustrates more of those idioms in the video below.
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Idioms or figures of speech can be confused with facts.
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Tones clash; idioms and allusions brush up against each other.
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Here's a chance to test your knowledge of Australian idioms.
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Mr. Millepied's dances show a range of idioms and charms.
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We smoked weed together, borrowed idioms and shopped American verses.
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The suite's evocation of black American musical idioms delighted audiences.
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Korean also comes with its own particularities, idioms and references.
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There are entertainers, who introduce idioms exotic, acrobatic and comic.
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In a hyperconnected world, patterns can repeat in different idioms.
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Those aren't tendencies that favor common ground; and in any event, as a result of them, when liberals hear the idioms of evangelical Christianity, they can now often hear the idioms of political reaction.
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Here, all the artists are conversant with many idioms and vocabularies.
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We're talking theory and fact and argument and idioms about news.
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Drawing compositional inspiration from black musical idioms was also nothing new.
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S.A. Idioms" and "The Pool Party of Sardanapalus (after Delacroix, Kienholz).
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The Dutch interiors served as a springboard to leap into new idioms.
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It shows up in our idioms about as often as our food.
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Their inclusion shows Perry to be comfortable in many idioms and materials.
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The rest of the band makes spry work of otherwise staid idioms.
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Like many works by Mr. Gruber, "Aerial" also dabbles in popular idioms.
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I'd like to start off today's column with two famous idioms: 1.
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As early as graduate school she was mingling African and Western idioms.
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Each culture had its own songs, but the idioms understood one another.
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There were, however, local idioms that seemed to describe the same symptoms.
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Those idioms implanted in me the desire to create worlds from scratch.
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We investigate the origins of some of these idioms — including a few surprises.
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Despite the contrast in musical idioms, each section flows naturally into the next.
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All families are their own countries, with their own idioms, rites and taboos.
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So, will more sports idioms be sprouting up in the years to come?
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Other plates from the series draw on the gestural idioms of Arabic script.
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These are all idioms that have origins in blacksmithing, so Scott Wadsworth of Essential Craftsman decided to literally show us what all those idioms look like when performed in real life and explain how they are related to their meaning.
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It's kind of fun to see the idioms as actions, instead of just phrases.
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Justice Gorsuch's writing, by contrast, is informal, full of lively idioms and nicely paced.
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And his score, as with all his music, draws from conventional, tonal musical idioms.
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Mr. Roumain skillfully folds gospel, funk, jazz and contemporary classical idioms into the score.
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The songs are also musical feats, mini-suites of hybrid idioms and harmonic odysseys.
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Yet a distinctive sensibility emerges in Price's pervasively elegant and subtle handling of familiar idioms.
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Mr. Russell delved into various idioms over the next decades, mostly recording for independent labels.
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But that's only because her previous albums have already encompassed so many idioms and ideas.
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Like many of our best contemporary composers, he's got an exhaustive command of musical idioms.
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But as vivid as they are, Zimmer learned not all idioms make for great photos.
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Even if the general meaning is preserved, specific idioms and grammatical structures get lost in translation.
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Characters use distinctly post-1940s idioms, and some cultural artifacts also seem imported from later decades.
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Abstract art has been produced in Latin America, Asia and Africa, often encompassing more traditional idioms.
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Pay yourself first is one of those age-old idioms that means both nothing and everything.
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Naturally, Twitter had a field day with the "very stable genius" and "like, really smart" idioms.
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The idioms and euphemisms I know don't work the same in the language they speak here.
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In an increasingly homogenized world, Appalachia remains truly distinctive—in its culture, its idioms, its struggles.
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The charge is based on rumor and innuendo—Trump's own signature idioms—rather than on fact.
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Others, notably those by Oscar Micheaux (19151-19383) and Spencer Williams (19158-19152), developed distinctive idioms.
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And "Facade" (1931) is a debonair, comically surreal pastiche of the dance idioms of its era.
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Spanish idioms have a way of losing all semblance of seriousness when they're translated to English.
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She usually starts with rhyming and combinations of first and last names and working in any idioms.
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Her interest in soul and blues idioms remains, but she has never sounded more like a folksinger.
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Maurice Arnold, another black student, showed Dvorak his attempt at writing an orchestral piece using black idioms.
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Turns out, they're a dime a dozen, with an estimated 25,000 idioms alone in the English language.
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If you haven't followed the debate religiously, or you are unfamiliar with British idioms, these may be mysterious.
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We remixed the Lebanese Arabic dialect with English idioms and ate kibbeh with chicken nuggets and homemade fries.
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I especially admire Bad Saint's refusal to translate Filipino food into the European-derived idioms of fine dining.
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The system can autonomously group together similar documents and understand complex aspect of the human language, like idioms.
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We speak in the idioms of the Smiths and Morrissey, swapping lyrics like lovers' letters or fighters' fists.
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The site, it then seemed, was an oasis for all varieties of slang, text speak, and cultural idioms.
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You know, platforms where we all speak super formally with zero slang, idioms, cultural references, or spontaneous wordplay.
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We're talking about sports idioms, those everyday phrases ingrained in our lexicon, handed down from generation to generation.
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Idioms like "hijrah" — meaning to improve one's life by conforming to Islam — are heard more and more frequently.
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The subjects and paint work in tandem, each revealing the other, undergirded by a host of Abstract Expressionist idioms.
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Look into learning something new about the history of your neighborhood or the origins of idioms and internet slang.
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There are indications that he may have lived in an American time zone, but his English occasionally contains British idioms.
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The new edition, which lists 16,000 idioms, was compiled by the Australian National Dictionary Center at the Australian National University.
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Yet he also captured, as well as any writer who's ever lived, the sweetness, intelligence and grace in both idioms.
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Better yet, dance aficionados can point to two bounce-friendly dance idioms that arose as a result of bad backs.
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"The On In Outs (heap 5)" (all works 2019) exemplifies Lapin's facility in constructing an image in multiple conflicting idioms.
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But the ready-made idioms of folk and rock that inspired his first couple of albums are no longer sufficient.
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To get your point across, consider replacing jargon, idioms and obscure metaphors with short, commonly used words and direct explanations.
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To a new speaker of the language, English idioms retain a troubling trace of literalness long after they are understood.
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Back in the days of vaudeville, the label "eccentric dancing" was accepted for a wide range of idioms, not least tap.
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Here are some idioms to choose from: Develop a quirky habit that 'helps you think' and 'gets your creative juices flowing.
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There are thousands of idioms and proverbs woven beautifully into Farsi, and so these also blossom out, waiting to be explored.
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The way the women's somewhat faster, lighter idioms weave in and out of these dances gives "Newark" a rich musical texture.
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We do, after all, have over 4,000 idioms that make absolutely no sense to people who aren't proficient in American English.
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Michael, who speaks in the conversational idioms of Ruth's generation, is just as wry, self-conscious and understated as she is.
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Same-sex partnering, mixed-race casting and multiple dance idioms are all shown here: a quietly objective, latter-day melting pot.
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Though it finds much to mock in the habits and idioms of contemporary youth, "Booksmart" is steadfastly on its characters' side.
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It proved a truly American platform, too, with idioms including Hawaiian hula, Irish footwork, Spanish dance, tap, Lindy, ballet and modern.
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I also sometimes discover a new corpus of idioms or movies or something that I add programmatically to my word list.
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And his danciness can borrow from ballet, hip-hop, vogueing, showbiz, the release technique of postmodern dance and many other idioms.
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The needlepoint erases its maker; the poem about the needlepoint, though borrowing its formal idioms, restores Aunt Jennifer and her pain.
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Many people are saying — to borrow another of his idioms — the words of Mr. Trump, whether or not we like him.
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The artists sought to invent new idioms to cast overboard the academic realism that had been in vogue under the Raj.
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These were useful outlets for him to learn his craft, as well as idioms worth rejecting on behalf of his art.
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Today's episode brings a performance from Dom Flemons, a purveyor of old-timey (pre-WWII) folk music rooted in African-American idioms.
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But these catchphrases are used unwittingly, since the Professor is hazy about the strange new idioms and rules that now oppress her.
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Trump's tactics echo those of previous nativist-populist politicians, but his tweets also draw on the contemporary idioms of the alt-right.
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Several thousand curiosity-seekers took in a vast range of contemporary idioms, including sounds at the far end of the experimental spectrum.
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Researchers in the Netherlands have found that while the neural machine translation method improves quality, it still struggles to accurately translate idioms.
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Ms. Margolin offers us a set of familiar idioms that have had their NOs removed, hence the phrase "NO NO." Very clever.
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From "Montevallo" It had to happen: a performer arrived astonishingly comfortable in both idioms, toggling back and forth between them with ease.
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His fine new album, "The Time Verses," balances urgency and poise; you hear his decades of exploration across idioms washing up onshore.
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Ms. Dorrance gave them room to show their home idioms, but demonstrated how these other tributaries fed into the great tap river.
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According to Reddit user SomeObscureNerdCrap, whose friend is a fifth-grade teacher, a student submitted this illustration for their English homework on idioms.
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Although more interest in the idioms of figurative folk art, Ryggen would occasionally dabble in abstractionism to express the ineffable qualities of violence.
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Often these idioms are used in place of "catch-22," but none quite capture the tangled, philosophical weight associated with the original phrase.
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Let's call them Radioheadisms: idioms, proverbs, maxims, aphorisms, or other common expressions that have either been repeated verbatim or tweaked in some way.
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Mr. McCartney was encyclopedic, demonstrating his mastery of multitudinous idioms and applying all his charm and skill to hits and non-hits alike.
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In times of crisis, Americans have borrowed English idioms, and coined a few of their own homespun mottos for personal and economic perseverance.
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It seems that many themeless puzzles these days don't favor long words instead of phrases or idioms; some think they're not as interesting.
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His omnivorous 14-member band handled a profusion of instruments — button accordion, oboe, Brazilian cuica — and a remarkable spectrum of idioms and fusions.
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It's an illustration of three different idioms: Becoming a martyr, falling on your own sword, and playing the smallest violin in the world.
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We eavesdrop not only to figure out what's happening, but also to attend to idioms and rhythms, to the musical qualities of speech.
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You also couldn't miss the fluent spectrum of musical styles, from African worklike meters to rock music, with spirituals and other idioms in between.
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The Osbornes, who wrote all of the songs with Nashville collaborators including Kendell Marvel, Travis Meadows and Shane McAnally, relish tweaking traditional country idioms.
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Its artists often borrow from the idioms of black culture, but in a way that's increasingly detached from the music's originating streets and struggles.
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The paintings employ various abstract idioms to challenge preconceived polarities of space and time, dream visions and waking life, the real and the spectral.
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Their common denominator is not a use of black idioms but a fascination with sound and color, with intensities and the fabric of construction.
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The range of idioms employed here veers between the cool objectivity of spoken docudrama and the intensely lyrical extremes of quasi-operatic mad scenes.
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As a composer you are the sum total of the genres, idioms, vibes, feels, grooves and everything else you've heard since you were born.
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They're underlined by music that expands on all of her guitar-band idioms: growing punkier, more psychedelic, dronier and noisier as the songs demand.
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The elder Anthony then imparts some wisdom he'd gleaned from Pat Riley, his former coach whose legendary idioms have become gospel among basketball fans.
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This is all while doing stand-up that, in recent years, has laid bare his interest in philosophy, with digressive bits about death and idioms.
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Ian Knauer is spot on as the clueless but kindhearted Lord Evelyn, a reserved Englishman who mangles the American idioms he tries hard to imitate.
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Dazed by unfamiliar sounds, sights, tastes, and touches, I had to learn a whole new language quite distinct from the idioms of every day discourse.
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Drawing on her experience of "intertwined languages" and the postwar Korean diaspora, Yoon savors homonyms ("apple is apology") and uncovers figurative language buried in idioms.
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Usually, once I have an idea for a theme, I search through lists of words, idioms or phrases to find material that fits the concept.
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Hundreds of idioms — absurd out of context — are irreverently scrawled in pencil and bright marker across the wall in Roni Horn's "Wits' End Sampler" (2018).
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At the time of its premiere, composers who wrote in complex modernist idioms and claimed the intellectual high ground dismissed "Vanessa" as hopelessly Neo-Romantic.
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In lighter scenes, Dvorak evokes Polish music with lilting, mazurka-infused choral music; he draws upon Slavic modal harmonies to suggest Russian idioms and character.
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His first translation for the company involved changing several idioms (such as "no pain, no gain" or "speak of the devil") into understandable emoji versions.
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Similarly, Kara Walker's large tempera and watercolor collage, "Four Idioms on Negro Art #1 Folk" (2015), is a scene of stereotype and systemic white racism.
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Trump, in many ways, represents the culmination of Ailes's decades-long project to cultivate a strain of conservatism that is native to the idioms of television.
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Both Mr. Yorke and Mr. Greenwood are relentlessly inquisitive listeners, lovers of melody and explorers of idioms, makers of puzzles who don't shy away from emotion.
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Truly, 1986 was a simpler time, when nuclear war loomed over children's robot comedies and a bad Indian accent screwing up American idioms was still funny.
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More recently, he has ventured into the worlds of Western classical and tango, composing and arranging ambitious third-stream works that play around with those idioms.
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On his own forthcoming album, "Your Sound (Live at Dizzy's Club Cola-Cola)," Mr. Rodriguez moves between idioms and energies as easily as he switches instruments.
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Mr. Lee's dialogue encompassed Catskills shtick, like Spider-Man's patter in battle; Elizabethan idioms, like Thor's; and working-class Lower East Side swagger, like the Thing's.
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It peels back enough of the layers of the onion to be effective in ways that analysis of culturally complex idioms born online are often deficient.
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The idiot speaks only in idioms, though these function for him not as colorful additions to a language or culture, but are understood by him alone.
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Visiting Artist: Mernet Larsen Tuesday, October 23, 6:30 pm Since the late 1970s, Mernet Larsen has engaged with the history and idioms of geometric abstraction.
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One of the student's favorite idioms, naturally, is "the poop hits the fan," which they colorfully illustrated with wonderful stick figures and a fan catching on fire.
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By contrast, Yoweri Museveni, the 74-year-old Ugandan president who won just 31% of the vote in Kampala in 2016, sprinkles his speech with rustic idioms.
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GIACOMO PONZETTOBarcelona China's media regulators in 2014 brought in a no-pun policy, discouraging the alterations of idioms and the meaning of characters used in any form.
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Click here to view original GIF"You get what you pay for" is one of those tried-and-true idioms that's especially relevant in high-end electronics.
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A rehearsal pianist needs patience and precision; a class pianist relies more on observation, intuition and the ability to draw on a vast range of musical idioms.
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But Common Ground Coffeehouse in nearby Hastings-on-Hudson has also scheduled a show, featuring the idiosyncratic Erin McKeown, known for her funky take on folk idioms.
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And from the very beginning of her career she treated musical idioms as if they simply did not exist, back when that was far from common practice.
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The program is perhaps most notable for the rare performance of the music of Othmar Schoeck, a Swiss composer working in the latest of late Romantic idioms.
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Mr. Simon's songwriting has long treated pop as a force of inclusion and adaptation, learning constantly from different idioms and discovering where they can overlap or coalesce.
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Early works like her Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and Timpani (1946) drew on idioms from both socialist realist and modernist styles, with influences including Stravinsky and Bartok.
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"Cloud River Mountain" combines Chinese folk, pop and contemporary music idioms with Bang on a Can's trademark elements of minimalism and other postmodern and avant-garde styles.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Wengerisms are oft-repeated idioms used by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to explain away the betrayal of a complex world.
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"A lot of how we talk and interact, certainly in customer support, is using a lot of idioms or terms that are specific to an industry," Thomas said.
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When in Vail, though, what you see is how these returning artists extend themselves here — tackling new idioms, developing new partnerships, working on choreographic premieres — as nowhere else.
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Although the characters talk in the unmistakable patter of police procedurals, their conversation is littered with misplaced idioms, fractured non-sequiturs, and baffling descriptions of inter-species violence.
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But fluency is also a function of familiarity, as grammar offers few clues as to the parts of speech that are not so much idioms as loose affinities.
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Translating Times journalism so that it is not only accurate but also has the right idioms, phrasing and tone — while still remaining true to The Times's style — is tricky.
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As such, Loophole to Happiness can be read as a series of stand-alone idioms with their own internal logic, or as a collection that speak to one another.
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The previous week, Mr. Spann, who makes richly textured paintings in both abstract and figurative idioms, was the subject of a sellout show at Half Gallery in New York.
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Less an antithesis to Modernism than an alternative to it, such projects embraced 20th-century idioms while refusing to accept industrial mass production as the fundamental fact of modernity.
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He had a pitiless eye and a penchant for spotting trends and then giving them names, some of which — like "Radical Chic" and "the Me Decade" — became American idioms.
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Extravagant both verbally and visually, Wolfe had a penchant for spotting trends and then giving them names, some of which — like "Radical Chic" and "the Me Decade" — became American idioms.
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Most of Robbins's early ballets show just how right for Broadway his talent was: They have fabulous cartoon vitality, a natural mastery of vernacular idioms and wonderful contrasts of tone.
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APIs have been compared to dictionaries of words with their definitions, but John Bergmayer, a senior staff attorney at Public Knowledge, says they're more like collections of proverbs or idioms.
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That Oehlen and Whitney would draw on different idioms while remaining especially relevant to our time demonstrates that progress in painting is no longer measurable historically, but is instead contingent.
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Google knows that its machine translation tool isn't a replacement for human translators, and schools discourage language students from relying on the tool because it misses nuance, idioms, and jokes.
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Through live performances and videos, the festival boasts performing artists working in a range of idioms, from pieces informed by the aesthetics of experimental theater, contemporary music, clowning, and more.
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" Her great-grandfather, she said, "of course also used Soviet slogans and ideological idioms but still tried to stay away from sweeping denunciations of whole segments of the Soviet population.
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Mr. Davies called Mr. Yun "a father figure for Asian-European music," comparing him to 19th-century Western composers who elevated the native idioms of their countries into classical form.
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In a cover story for Attitude magazine, he teased this "grimy sexy" new era, posing like a twinkified version of Tom of Finland, an explicit self-fashioning through gay male idioms.
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The effects of European Modernity on indigenous cultures has been devastating, and I have a found idioms and forms from Classical and Modern art history to express in my own paintings.
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The most unexpectedly delightful feature is the three-member band of stage musicians — playing a saxophone, an accordion and a tangy violin — that adds vibrant improvised interjections in different folkloric idioms.
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He certainly uses English idioms, but the one that is most contemptible of all -- the lower middle-class racism that masquerades as false exasperation -- is that people won't just fit in.
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And to be sure, the film has its share of broad jokes, which seem to be written in comic idioms that are slightly more modern than the original trilogy's more vaudevillian style.
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"If a foreigner is trying to communicate a message in English on the topic of politics, there could be some lost-in-translation typos or idioms that they may misuse," he said.
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You don't need to know idioms to be able to speak grammatically correct English, but as many ESL students know, you're going to have a hell of a time communicating without them.
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Acquire enough lingots and you can buy power-ups that'll freeze your streak for a day, outfits for the owl to wear, and bonus lessons that'll teach you idioms and flirtatious phrases.
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Words can mean different things to different people, and native English speakers, with their broader vocabularies, are more likely to use idioms and slang that can confuse those unfamiliar with the language.
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About two years ago, I crafted a themed puzzle involving related idioms that was inspired by thinking of the clue "one who may leave you out in the cold?" for BLANKET HOG.
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Guilloux's notebooks make clear that more than a realist, he was a voice writer, testing dialogues and send-ups of bourgeois language, recording conversations, and compiling lists of idioms and ridiculous expressions.
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But the real special effect was her music: her piano and voice in all their transformations, distilling classical, traditional and pop idioms down to their sorrow and rage, harnessing them to poets' words.
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There's also a reference to Flight of the Conchords, regional accents shown through liberal use of 'ere then and 'orses, and excellent use of puns and idioms like "a dog's dinner" scattered around.
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Gillespie is known for helping to establish two important idioms that aren't always associated with large ensembles — bebop and Latin jazz — but he did much of his most impressive work with big bands.
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Pam Tanowitz, a choreographer known for putting a postmodern spin on classical dance idioms and collaborating with composers and visual artists, is this year's recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts Center's Cage Cunningham Fellowship.
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The festival's widely varied lineup also includes the singer-songwriter Zohra Atash, who favors '80s-style synth pop; the composer Kelly Moran, who fuses electronic and contemporary art music idioms; and Merzbow, a.k.a.
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Mr. Mueller, when he did engage, would deploy corporate idioms like "we need to square the circle" — or merely sit in silence, letting his team handle negotiations over an interview with the president.
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These assistants need to understand local accents and idioms, know the right conversions for locally used measurements, be familiar with television shows, movie stars, and sports figures in each country and so on.
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Patriot is immensely fond of having characters speak in the idioms of masculinity past; you'll hear many of them allude to the older, industrial world, where you could make a living with your hands.
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He said the influential scholar George Pullen Jackson, working in and around Georgia in the 1930s, "whitewashed" the history, playing down the contributions of black gospel and other idioms to the shape-note culture.
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Julie Mehretu, Henry Taylor and George Condo, three American artists working in very different idioms, have brought challenging works that deserved proper space for contemplation and shouldn't have to compete against one another this way.
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As artists continue to search for ways to help us understand each other better and bridge divides, this show offers an important hint about the role that exploring one anther's idioms and bromides can play.
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Critics rounded on his patriotic views on Monday, pointing out that Macron regularly uses English idioms, such as the phrase "Start-Up Nation" to promote French innovation and technology, as do many of France's top businesses.
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They investigated structured alternatives to standard song forms as well as the long, declamatory improvisations favored by New York City's jazz avant-garde, exploring dissonance, serialism and polyphony, 21967th-century concert music and non-Western idioms.
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However, "poetic cubism" fails to capture Cendrars's linguistic originality; in fact, he was never identified with any literary movement and was, himself, completely indifferent to the characterizations and classifications of the poetic idioms of his time.
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Catholic progressives have advocated a greater use of contemporary idioms consistent with the Second Vatican Council reforms of the 1960s and many bristled under what they considered a heavy and out-of-touch hand from Rome.
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The symphonic version — which sets a poignant poem by the film's director, Sally Potter, to music — opens with an a cappella lullaby, in Yiddish, before moving to animated orchestral passages that draw on Klezmer and Gypsy idioms.
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The Xhosa's deep connection to the forest "has permeated the Xhosa language, imbuing idioms, proverbs, riddles, names of months and times of day, stories, legends, songs, chants, and more," according to a Terralingua profile on the group.
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Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist My wife is building a language museum in Washington (I'm its vice chairman), so people often send her funny examples of word play, including a list of mixed-up idioms from oxforddictionaries.com.
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Iribarren's project is not unlike that of painters Mark Grotjahn or Matt Connors, who also work within pockets of modern abstraction, plucking from a range of idioms (Orphism, Primitivism, Constructivism), and reanimating them to create new forms.
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Suddenly confronted with the need to go specific and intimate, she turned to nostalgic Americana; the album's sound aimed to evoke authenticity through a rather conventional turn to the musical past, specifically '60s, '70s, and '80s rock idioms.
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And while PETA was being teased for playfully suggesting that some idioms might need to evolve, another group is taking a much more serious approach to policing language as veganism grows in popularity: the meat and dairy industry.
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He watches the world, he makes meticulous notes: about posture and beards, about the correct pronunciation of idioms and interjections, but also about paunches, which young Australians never have, and about spitting in public, which Australians never do.
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He delved widely across idioms, writing not just three-chord folk and pop but tunes that hinted at rock, blues, country, klezmer, Viennese waltzes and Greek rebetika — even disco on the hard-nosed, trenchant "I'm Your Man" in 1988.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's culture minister has urged people to cut down on their increasing use of English, in the latest effort to protect the French language, even though President Emmanuel Macron himself often slips English idioms into his speech.
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And the notion that animals of all kinds routinely engage in sophisticated discourse with one another — that the world's ecosystems reverberate with elaborate animal idioms just waiting to be translated — is not Doctor Dolittle-inspired nonsense; it is fact.
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But that, too, is changing: Brasler says that in the past year, since the addition of neural nets, Google Translate has gotten remarkably good at tackling things like sales and marketing materials, where translating involves using colorful language and interpreting idioms.
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The company tested 5,000 people, tasking them with translating clips from Netflix shows like Orange Is the New Black and Handler's stand-up special Uganda Be Kidding Me Live to ensure they could handle Handler's jokes, English idioms, and cultural jargon.
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Although Mr. Jia is obviously conversant with the European art film — and East Asian cinema and Hollywood and so forth — he has carved out his own ways of making cinematic meaning, an approach that draws on different idioms and traditions.
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The reason why Mr Martin was the fifth Beatle was because he contributed as much, if not more, than anyone to the Beatles' music and its timelessness by dressing it up and enshrining it in timeless musical idioms—by producing it.
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Friday's program was the finale to "Revolutionaries," a two-and-a-half-month celebration that linked Ginastera, who boldly combined South American musical idioms with atonal 20th-century techniques, to late Beethoven, suggesting that in their own ways both were revolutionary.
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He'd learned Spanish from the Dominicans he'd worked for as a stock boy on the northern Haitian border, and picked up some turns of phrase and idioms from the shelter Cubans, who helped him get the job on the construction site.
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The result is a powerful and suspenseful film, part detective story and part courtroom drama, fueled by a potent mix of curiosity and indignation and full of memorable characters speaking in the lively idioms and varied accents of New York.
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The clarity of the digital cinematography (by John Toll) and the precision of the production design (by Mark Friedberg) incite a hundred small acts of noticing, and the script (by Jean-Christophe Castelli) is attentive to the book's cacophony of idioms.
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Throughout the 300s, Weill — part of the November Group of radical artists that included painters like Otto Dix and Wassily Kandinsky and the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — tapped into idioms from popular music in Berlin, like jazz and cabaret.
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This puzzle has a fully developed trick, to be sure, but it also has a couple of almosts: Four out of five answers are idioms, for example, and the order of the dropped vowels from top to bottom is almost alphabetical.
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Urban Dictionary (1999)As much as we all love it when traditional, "respectable" dictionaries decide to participate in cultural conversations via subtweet, there's still a degree to which the institutions are playing catch-up in terms of cataloging contemporary words and idioms.
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Bowie was out of his gourd in 1974, as this self-parodic exchange with the film's director shows: Yentob: Since you've been in America, you seem to have picked up on a lot of the idioms and themes of American music and culture.
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Sometimes it's trivial things like not knowing certain cultural references or English idioms (my colleagues recently taught me the meaning of "worth dying on a hill," and I fully intend to overuse it.) At other times, it's feeling left out or lonely.
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"We don&apost claim that we think Paul was mistaken - rather, our model merely suggests that the patterns of musical idioms in &aposIn My Life&apos matches more with Lennon&aposs writing style, relative to the patterns we recorded," Glickman told Business Insider .
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If we can understand the meaning behind idioms like "Cat got your tongue," then surely we can summon the moxie necessary to accurately read Lucas' images, like the self-portrait photograph in which she cradles a dead salmon across her left arm.
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Language is a weapon in the arsenals of power and resistance alike, and if you listen closely to the motley idioms and accents that fill the soundtrack (punctuated and underlined by Gary Yershon's musical score), you can hear the currents of history moving.
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But it is Mr. van Zweden's interpretation of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a self-contained cosmos of musical colors, affects and idioms, that New Yorkers will be parsing for clues as to what sort of effect he will have on the orchestra's sound.
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While still a very young man, Porter coined the phrase "See America First" (it was the title of his début musical, a George M. Cohan spoof), and that gift for creating idioms may be a clue to the quiddity of his genius.
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Its songs, mostly written by the pianist Thomas Lauderdale and the singer China Forbes, sound like potential production numbers for long-lost movie musicals or supper-club revues from around the world; they dip into multiple languages and idioms with suave assurance.
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They love American folk music for its vivid surreality, for the way vernacular idioms and stories with holes in them can create mystery; they aim to capture the surprise of listening to an old song that talks to you directly from another place.
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A modernist genre painter, a virtuosic colorist, and a realist painter who traffics in otherworldly moments, Resika has integrated so many idioms of abstraction into figuration that he seems to be giving a middle finger to the art world's ever-changing avant-gardes.
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Others spanned a range of typical Google searches, including hunting for recipes ("how to make a birthday cake"), understanding idioms ("hey Google, get cold feet"), beating pub quizzes ("presidents in order"), and looking for that perfect karaoke number ("you'll be in my heart just music").
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At the start of his participation in this project, Mr. Huang, 39, who was born in China, trained in the United States and teaches at the Mannes College the New School for Music, decided to combine aspects of Chinese classical opera with Western contemporary idioms.
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The postmark shows it was 1963, and the return address that of the choreographer Agnes de Mille, celebrated for her pioneering use of American subjects both on Broadway and in her ballets and for the way she brought popular dance idioms into theatrical settings.
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There are a couple of traps set for us, though; watch out for the seemingly similar clues at C and K. "Piece of cake" and "cup of tea" are IDIOMS and "Variety is the spice of life" and "A watched pot never boils" are ADAGES.
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Even phrases now as familiar as "I've got you under my skin" and "I get a kick out of you" are not precisely idioms taken directly from American talk, the way that Hart's "I could write a book" and "I've got five dollars" are.
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She's a warm conversationalist but also a moody one, suspicious of cant, with an almost self-destructive refusal to defer to the diplomatically empty idioms of the media-trained television executive—she'd rather tell a story that makes her look bad, if it's true or funny.
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The concert, which was presented with the World Music Institute, riffled through decades of Mr. Zé's catalog and idioms from in and out of Brazil: bossa nova, pagode, funk, rock, even hints of classical music, all sharing a crisp clarity as the band earned its praises.
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Meanwhile, the movie's music is largely non-African, steeped in Hollywood and Broadway idioms, with an orchestral score by the German composer Hans Zimmer (reworked for the 2019 version) and wordplay-loving, musical-theater-style songs by two Englishmen, Elton John and the lyricist Tim Rice.
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The six terrific performers are from EnKnapGroup, a Slovenian dance company with a Pan-European core, so a lot of the comedy comes from watching a foreign troupe deconstruct a beloved genre, but it also comes from hearing them mangle American idioms in terrible oater accents.
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Dipping and diving between half-translated German idioms, self-deprecating humor, and intense conversation about their songwriting process, Ring and Bronsert bantered and bickered with a cheerful agitation befitting morning talk show hosts or an old married couple, while Szary mostly stayed silent, a sphinx-like figure in an A.P.C. jumpsuit.
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For now, at least, anxious rhetoric about contemporary America's proximity to Weimar Germany and doom-laden idioms of resistance have cleared space on the left for a provisional hope about what the Democratic Party and its candidates can yet do with the good, old-fashioned, still-cranking gears of electoral politics.
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That meant the computer needed to be able to identify and make sense of colloquialisms and idioms — as well as certain dialects or industry-specific terms — such as "open a can of worms" or "hardly helpful" (previously, an AI system might think someone was actually opening a can of worms).
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And when Manhatta turns to the classics, its use of French idioms seems skin-deep compared with Laetitia Rouabah's light touch and sophisticated technique at Benoit, or Marie-Aude Rose's painstaking elevations of cafe cooking at La Mercerie, or Daniel Rose's intelligent, neoclassical excavations of silver-cloche cuisine at Le Coucou.
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The familiar artistic idioms range from large-scale, colorful, geometric abstract paintings to happenings like Tamás Szentjóby's, "Sit Out/Be Forbidden" [1972], conceptual work such as Dóra Maurer's, "Proportions," 1976), and body art projects that include Tibor Hajas's, "Extinction," (20373) by artists whose names are anything but familiar within the New York scene.
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Because the physical idioms of his expression were severely limited, because his fiery declamation was laid waste to by the siege of decline, Ali was forced, instead, to inhabit relative muteness and transform it into an eloquent expression of his humanity—one where suggestion and inference form a grammar of moral communication.
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" According to Joel Rozen's review in The New York Times, Bernstein's midcentury modern musical and Puts's more recent commemoration of the World War I Christmas Truce are festival highlights, sharing an engagement with "memorializing cross-cultural encounters in history through the diverse idioms of music, while indicting the violence that often springs from such encounters.
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Despite their obvious differences — there wouldn't seem to be much common DNA between Bernstein's boisterous boricuas and Mr. Puts's Scottish squaddies — Glimmerglass's two productions share, to varying degrees of success, a similar aim: memorializing cross-cultural encounters in history through the diverse idioms of music, while indicting the violence that often springs from such encounters.
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Blurting out lyrics with skittish, unpredictable energy and impatient charm, he recalls a less cartoonish E-40, another California rapper whose babbling plays rhythmic jokes on you, especially when he coins his own poetic idioms ("Two dicks in my pants!" he announces without explanation; you can either assume he means guns or take him literally).
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Just as Ellington and Strayhorn added swing to classical scores in various jazz suites, Ms. Dorrance and her collaborators, gesturing at a wide range of moods and traditions, have fused tap and other American idioms like the Lindy Hop and hip-hop, with some faux Russian folk dance thrown in to shake things up.
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In 21857, it's hard to know what hallowed numbers like 2100, 1003, 2100 or 220 (or idioms like the "Curse of the Bambino") mean, and while some records might still matter — Joe DiMaggio's 219-game hitting streak, possibly — the chatter generated by a great hitter approaching his 500th home run or 3,000th hit has become muted.
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For an investigation of the English language, there's Mark Abley's Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean, a journey through the meanings and histories of common sayings; Lynne Murphy's The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English, an investigation of the stereotypes, biases, and histories that shape the way English speakers feel about their English.
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And a novel narrated by a rotating crew of five characters, all of whom have "an elsewhere in our blood"—in this case, Irish, West Indian, and Pakistani—is going to have "an elsewhere" in its language, too: quick Englishings of foreign words, Cockney slang, some very local northwest-London street banter, and appropriations from American idioms, especially regarding music and clothes.
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He is to south London what Jay Z was to Brooklyn in the 1990s, Kendrick Lamar to LA in the 2010s, Pimp C and UGK to Houston in the 2000s; from the idioms to the cadence, he is a monument of his area – and wider Britain now, as a whole – capturing an essence of the place that you're not going to find in a Time Out pull-out.
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The foreign influences pop out here and there (they probably account for the exotic shifting rhythms and colliding harmonies), but what binds the music and makes it more than an intellectual exercise is its rootedness in jazz idioms — and Mr. Coleman's tone on alto sax, reminiscent of Parker's piercing sweetness but swept across a broader canvas than anyone in the bebop era, even its master, could have imagined.
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His current program, "Monument," performed here this week at the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob's Pillow Dance, begins with solos by Ted Shawn, the father figure of American modern dance; Doris Humphrey, who danced for Shawn but then broke away to forge a more architectural and modernist style; and José Limón, who danced for Humphrey and carried on her flame after her death while developing different idioms of his own.
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That said, Byrne and his longtime producer Brian Eno probably didn't help themselves ahead of the release of Talking Heads' fourth studio album—the masterpiece Remain In Light—in 1980, when they sent a bibliography to journalists of tomes on architecture, art and John Miller Chernoff's generic sounding African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms, in the hope that writers might read them and make the interviews more interesting.
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His voice and delivery amuse, as his plain, masculine deadpan allows him to mock his own presence as a vocalist and the weird phrases coming out of his mouth, lending the words a welcome strangeness; it's marvelous to hear him utter bits of turned folk wisdom like "A circle does what a circle does best" and "The past never gave me anything but the blues," as if these are familiar American idioms.
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We see this in the willing stockpiling of techie jargon into individual vocabularies (the Androids, the iPhones, the lesser-seen Surface Books); the new word coinages (blockchain), the new and expanding uses for existing words (a 'message' is a noun; 'message me' an imperative verb asking someone to send you an IM); the creative portmanteaus (glasshole is a particularly good one), the tech-obsessed idioms (I don't have bandwidth for that right now), and so on and on.
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