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Those of us who deal with the lexicographic side of language are well aware of what Jeans characterizes as the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.
These are very different from the ‘four beats to a bar’ that characterizes the western musical tradition, and therefore it is sometimes difficult for Western listeners to follow.
A contingent of 170 Israeli troops--whom the NYT peculiarly characterizes as "specialists in rescuing people from destroyed buildings"--arrived in Nairobi and quickly took charge.
This is a district which only "one Democrat had won since Adolf Hitler was running Germany," announces habitual double-dribbler Mark Shields on both Capital Gang and NewsHour . The Republican elders take more guff from the quotable Shields, who characterizes them on NewsHour as more concerned with "re-election" than the "revolution" they promised three years ago.
If Gass characterizes books as living in the mind, not on the page, he's saying to some extent that books are the creation of the reader as well as the writer.