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  • In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

    Mean   Sacrifice   Class  
  • If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

    World   Unions   Needs  
    "Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World". Book by Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987.
  • [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

  • Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

  • It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.

    Writing   Men   Political  
    "To an understanding of marriage as merely the end-point of romance". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.
  • I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

    Lexicon   Goofy  
  • [I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.

    Girl   Vocabulary   Class  
    Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume
  • I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

  • Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

  • Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  • You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.

    Mother   Blow   Law  
  • Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

    Choices   Style   Mastery  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

    Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.173, Random House
  • The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

    J M Coetzee (2015). “Diary of a Bad Year”, p.23, Random House
  • In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

    Failure   Fate   Lexicon  
    Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)
  • To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  • The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

    1968 Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.
  • You can't handle the truth!

  • With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.

    Wisdom   Practice   Class  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”
  • Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

    "No Other Book: Selected Essays". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 13, 1999.
  • I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

  • One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

    "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.
  • Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

    Stars   Flames   Ink  
    Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.67, Lulu.com
  • The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

  • The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.
  • Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

    Fashion   Female   Velvet  
    Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1604, Delphi Classics
  • A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

    "Emily Dickinson". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
  • Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

    Twitter post from Apr 8, 2013
  • You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the word "immigration" and to tell everyone we're anti-immigrant.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

    Color   Add   Lexicon  
    Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.41, Penguin
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