‘The Politicisation of Everything’ is a phrase that has come to me over the past couple of years in light of the culture wars. It’s a benign way of saying ‘the weaponisation of everything’ – but it often amounts to the same thing. The heat is being dialled up around the ...
My dad taught me the phrase “anti-provincial provincialism” when I was a kid. We were talking about the tendency of some Latter-day Saint academics to over-correct for the provincialism of their less-educated Latter-day Saint community and in the process recreate a variety of the provinciali...
As a child, I heard the phrase, “I love you.” The challenge with that phrase was the context within which it was used. I realize that there are many who long to even hear the words, so I do not want to minimize the words themselves – for I know there is much value in hearing...
It is fitting as a final addition to my CV of jobs on this film that it is me. I delight in telling the ‘making of’ camera that the waist on Adam’s trousers is way too roomy for me and I dive in. As I swim across the tank with Benedict and JJ I’m thrilled to be one o...
The classic phrase “Text me” might not be as common in casual conversations among the younger crowd, with social media and instant messaging taking the spotlight. They’re more likely to refer to direct messaging through platforms like Instagram (Insta) or Snapchat (Snap) as their primary mo...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...
2. ANAPHORA: the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses. “I think of you at the blowing windI think of you at the dazzling sunlight” –Can’t Stop “My heart stops at this cold love, my heart breaks into piecesMy breath stops at this sick love, my breath slowly die...
Dive!: Meeting the Mermaid at a Sixpenny Sunday Posted onApril 14, 2014bychiefprick It has been a good dozen or so years since the Prick first alighted at Kingsford-Smith and it’s fair to say that all things considered and to borrow a phrase, Sydney been berry berry good to me. Th...
C#: The big buzz phrase is ‘building risk weighted asset tools.’ In the risk and analytics team, and possibly partnering with offshore developers C# programmers who can assist banks to devise tools to calculate RWAs are in high demand. ...
Millennial people, almost all of whom would have entered the industry when itwasa calling, or at least more of one than it is today. We had a ton of incredible ads to aim at, and we could realistically dream of becoming part of that continuum, or creating a catchphrase for the entire...