LONDON — Kids really do have a way with words.
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"You have a way with words!" she stuttered, clearly mesmerized.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell certainly has a way with words.
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President Donald Trump has a way with words, as you may know.
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Taylor Swift isn't the only one who has a way with words.
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Who knew a con artist could have such a way with words?
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"There's no denying the president has a way with words," the page says.
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Lol" -- and, in another, adds ... "I have a way with words..... N***a.
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" Fallon even donned a cowboy hat for Shelton's "She's Got a Way with Words.
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To say Muhammad Ali had a way with words is something of an understatement.
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Lorde isn't the only member of the Yelich family to have a way with words.
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Jesse Williams has a new fan – and, like him, she has a way with words.
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She may have a way with words, but Blake Shelton's got a way with videos.
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Musk may not always have a way with words, but he is a master car salesman.
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Taylor Swift just has a way with words, especially when it comes to relationships and romance.
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Nick: [laughs] You had to have a way with words to do this kind of thing.
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Still, as this episode's grossly provocative opening scene reminds us, Goodwin still has a way with words.
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She had wanted something different out of life, and she had a way with words and grammar.
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She had wanted something different out of life, and she had a way with words and grammar.
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Michael Fassbender really has a way with words, especially when it comes to his romance with Alicia Vikander.
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Her LinkedIn also shows that she's a journalist — so it's no wonder she has a way with words.
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War Machine's got a way with words ... more than enough to make his pen pal-turned-fiancee swoon.
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The next president of the United States has a way with words, so let's just let him talk.
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Our science reporter Dennis Overbye, who has a physics degree from M.I.T. and a way with words, explains.
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LONDON — Adele has a way with words, so why not use them for your Valentine's Day cards this year?
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Early Sunday morning, Mercury enters Pisces, beginning an increased period of mental clarity and giving you a way with words.
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Above all, he had a way with words, an attribute he would have honed as a minister of the church.
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She is a typical recalcitrant teenager, albeit one with a way with words and a knack for the apposite repartee.
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He had a marvelous voice and a way with words, and a suggestion of inner depths, however dark and despicable.
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Fisher, who died on December 27, famously had a way with words, and she passed that on to her actress daughter.
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He must have had a way with words, because Jefferson — the lesser of two evils, in Hamilton's opinion — was elected president.
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J.K. Rowling has a way with words — just ask the millions (billions?!) of people who've ever picked up a Harry Potter book.
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Apply to join their Daisie team if you have a way with words, camera, hair, makeup, styling, music, design or even acting.
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Whether you think he's a rap god or a rapping jackass, you can't deny that Lil Wayne has a way with words.
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Finally, there's a lucrative side hustle option for those who have a way with words as opposed to a knack for coding.
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Even for a decorated Scrabble whiz, Mr. Richards, who is from New Zealand and lives in Malaysia, has a way with words.
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Books that have a distinctive voice and a way with words take longer to read, and they make demands on the reader.
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We'll leave the details to our science writer Dennis Overbye, who has a way with words (and a physics degree from M.I.T.).
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To say Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday at the age of 74, had a way with words is something of an understatement.
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Though he's been sitting pretty at No. 1 on iTunes, the "She's Got a Way with Words" singer hasn't begun celebrating just yet.
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When not correcting people's grammar, Mr. Barrett is the co-host and co-producer of the public radio show "A Way With Words."
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It wasn't even that he had a way with words, so that his opposition to Vietnam was guaranteed its place in the historical record.
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If you frequent Instagram often enough it's clear, The Game has a way with words and run-on sentences with seemingly never ending paragraphs.
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In college, she realized she "might not become the scientist I wanted to be" but had a way with words, and switched to marketing.
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The Game of Thrones star has a way with words when it comes to pinpointing the sexism women experience both in and outside of Hollywood.
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None of the four characters in "Shining City" have what we usually describe as a way with words, or at least not an easily traveled way.
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Tom Wolfe Writer Tom Wolfe had such a way with words that he not only penned a couple of masterpieces but also pioneered a new literary style.
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" As for her favorite Blake Shelton song, she names a tune that's "clever" and "so different" from one of her own songs — "She's Got a Way with Words.
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As his name implies—the character ben in his first name means "eloquence"—he had a way with words; he was a capable priest, and was apparently popular.
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The presumptive Presidential nominee of the Republican Party—let's call him Donald Trump, though "Donald Trump" is more like it—has a way with words, after a fashion.
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As the unofficial Mayor of the Internet, it's only fitting that she has a way with words — especially when it comes to clapping back at online mommy-shaming haters.
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We'd really like to just direct you to the explanation by our science reporter Dennis Overbye, who has a degree in physics from M.I.T. and a way with words.
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It's not the most mushy, romantic time, but you have a way with words that can sway and uplift other people in your life as the sun harmonizes with artful Neptune.
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A WAY WITH WORDS It's a gimme that if Keith Urban is singing on stage, his Oscar-winning wife, Nicole Kidman, is back in her seat, singing along with every word.
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I was 8 when I was told I had a way with words, which you develop when you're the last boy picked in gym in a town that favors soccer over Sondheim.
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And while Shelton opened with his beloved "Ol' Red" and had folks up and singing to "Boys 'Round Here," he made sure new single "She's Got a Way with Words" had its moment, too.
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Mr Cain, who has a strong belief in redemption and a way with words, has been a rockstar of the correctional world and the subject of documentaries, books, and countless newspaper and magazine articles.
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Already shooting season 12 of The Voice (which returns to NBC in September), the "She's Got a Way with Words" singer says the addition of Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys as coaches has added new life to the show.
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In the months following, the "She's Got a Way with Words" singer, 39, struck up a close friendship with Gwen Stefani – who also recently split from rocker Gavin Rossdale – and their friendship eventually took a romantic turn in November.
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Where to start, my sister Alena has always been a "free spirit"… yeah that's a good way to put it 🙂 Living by her own rules, Alena has always had a way with words ever since she learned to speak.
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Trump: A way with words Trump has effectively leveraged a persona refined on reality television; a mastery of direct, simple language; and an uncanny ear for the economic and philosophical grievances of Americans a million metaphorical miles removed from his Manhattan penthouse.
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Before Muhammad Ali became a 20th-century icon, he was known as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Ali, a great orator outside the ring, had a way with words, just like the man he was named after: the white Kentucky state senator Cassius Marcellus Clay.
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" "She's Got a Way with Words""When you put two and two together, you figure out love's got four letters She put the 'her' in 'hurt' / She put the 'why' in 'try' … She put the 'ex' in 'sex' … She put a big F-U in my future.
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He eventually settled on a hard pro-Brexit stance, combining that with shameless populism; a smattering of lies; a way with words; and what turned out to be a winning strategy to capitalize on the weakness of Labour under its unpopular left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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Running through November 6 in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the "Blake Shelton: Based on a True Story" exhibit takes fans of the "She's Got a Way with Words" singer through his journey from a boy in Ada, Oklahoma to a superstar in country music.
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With lyrics like, "She put the S.O.B. in sober/She put the hang in hangover/She put the ex in sex/She put the low in blow/She put a big F.U. in my future/Yeah she's got a way/She's got a way with words," it's a tune any fan who's ever been bitter and brokenhearted over an ex will appreciate.
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Dallas, TX :A Way With Words. Galveston Arts Center. Galveston, TX 2006 Teenage Fan Club. Janette Kennedy Gallery.
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Other digital and tabletop word search games include A Way with Words, Boggle, Bookworm, Letterpress, Outworded, Puzzlage, Ruzzle, Wonderword, Wordament, WordSpot, Word Streak with Friends, and Word Winder.
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"Wolf Whistle". (Audio podcast, requires SoundCloud player for access.) A Way with Words. 11 December 2015. The Turn To Call is far closer to the wolf whistle than the General Call.
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Daily Express. 4 August 2011. During a 2015 broadcast of A Way with Words, doubt was cast upon this explanation by lexicographer Grant Barrett, who noted that it was very thinly supported.Barrett, Grant.
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Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (October 17, 1999), She Has a Way With Words Los Angeles Times. in Newark, New Jersey. Her father worked as a chemical technician for Shell Oil and her mother was a legal secretary.
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He was replaced by writer and lexicographer Grant Barrett in January 2007. On August 2, 2007, KPBS-FM announced it would stop production of A Way with Words, saying it did not have enough experience or manpower to distribute a weekly program across North America. In September 2007, Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, co-hosts of A Way with Words, along with the show's producer Stefanie Levine, announced the creation of Wayword, Inc., an independent production company that would continue series production, along with a further agreement where KPBS remained the program's flagship station.
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Sameer is married to Anita Pandey and the couple have three children: daughters Sanchita and Suchita, and son Siddhesh. His mother, Indira Pandey, lives with them. A biography, Sameer – A Way with Words by Derek Bose, was released by Amitabh Bachchan in 2007.
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Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words,Benedict Carey (10 September 2007), "Alex, a Parrot Who Had a Way With Words, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2007. but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said.
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In addition to over 60 published articles, he has authored four books: A Way With Words, Grace-full Leadership, Packin' Up and Headin' Out: Making the Most of Your College Adventure and, most recently, Making the Climb, which chronicles his ascent to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Barnette himself was vocally opposed to US engagement in Vietnam. His daughter, Martha Barnette, is also an author and presents the weekly radio show A Way with Words on the subject of language. James has taught as a professor of religion at Samford University. Barnette died on October 20, 2004 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Martha Barnette (born November 18, 1957) is an American writer, radio host, and public speaker. She is the co-host and co-producer of A Way with Words, a weekly, hour-long show about language broadcast nationally in the United States, and is the author of four books, three of them about etymology.
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Soorya is one of the best lawyers in the country and is known to have a way with words. Soorya Narayanan takes it upon himself to release Vishwam from the clutches of the judiciary, because he is convinced of the man's innocence. Monai and Pazhani are Vishwam's accomplices, who accompany him to visit Soorya Narayanan.
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The Toast is Screwtape's after-dinner speech at the Tempters' Training College and satirises American and British or English public education. Screwtape has a secretary called Toadpipe. Screwtape appears to understand very well the nature of human minds and human weaknesses, although nothing about human love. He also has a way with words and a fondness for sarcasm.
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Since 2004, Barnette has co-hosted A Way with Words, a call-in show about language. Initially her co-host was author Richard Lederer. Lederer left the show in October 2006 and since January 2007 Barnette has hosted the show with lexicographer Grant Barrett. Barnette, Barrett and senior producer Stefanie Levine founded the 501(c)(3) organization Wayword, Inc.
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A Way with Words noted that Friedman had also been calling for more Friedman units in other contexts. This refers to his appearance on The Daily Show on June 12, 2006. The term has been used in puns, for example, "Commander of the Friedman Unit," an article about the political hopes of Friedman for a third-party candidate in the U.S. presidential race of 2012.
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It has been used by several media outlets to humorously refer to Tea Party-affiliated protestors. Some conservatives have advocated that the non-vulgar meaning of the word be reclaimed. Grant Barrett, co-host of the A Way with Words radio program, has listed teabagger as a 2009 buzzword meaning, "a derogatory name for attendees of Tea Parties, probably coined in allusion to a sexual practice".
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AllMusic opined that The Proclaimers "present a mix of style influences" on Angry Cyclist, ordaining "The Battle of the Booze" as "countrified" and entailing "Information"'s R&B; infusions. "Sometimes It's the Fools" rang out with what The Scotsman adjudged a "pithy and pacey jangle", remindful of R.E.M., declaring "You Make Me Happy" to be a "direct and driving Celtic soul stormer" and "A Way with Words" a "twanging country rock’n’roller".
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In June 2016, Shelton released "She's Got a Way with Words" as the album's third overall single and second promoted country single. The song peaked at number 7 on the Country Airplay chart, ending Shelton's streak of 17 consecutive number-one singles. "A Guy with a Girl", the album's fourth single, and third promoted country single, reached the top of the charts in early January, earning Shelton his twenty third career chart-topper.
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He's the first Gelfling to have ever killed a Garthim. He's strong and compassionate, and has a way with words. He's regarded as brave by the other Gelflings, but he doesn't see it as bravery so much as "doing what you can". He has a small, dog-like pet named Whouf, as well as a herd of large Mounders, large apelike creatures that resemble grassy hills with trees growing out of them when they sleep.
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McGuinness's first release, The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness, was released on 6 August 2007 on Domino Records' sublabel Double Six Records. Although the extended play was less than half an hour long, it received praise from critics. BBC reviewer Chris White called it "brimful with ideas" and stated that McGuinness's voice on the record "soars euphorically and coos playfully with equal aplomb". Drowned in Sound gave the EP a rating of 9/10, saying "McGuinness has a way with words that's quite remarkable".
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When the book was published, it caused trouble in her hometown of northeast Montana. Blunt's ex-husband described himself as "shell- shocked" and added that "a lot of people in this county are disturbed", while her parents were reluctant to discuss the substance of the memoir. "Judy sure has a way with words" is all her mother, Shirley, would say. The author's former father-in-law accused her of fabricating a scene in the opening chapter, which was originally a classroom essay that she wrote in her sophomore year of college.
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He constantly makes jokes, often testing the nerves of his companions. He is notably skilled with a sling-shot: it is said that he could 'take a bird on the wing at 50 yards' with it. This is a skill that comes in handy on many occasions in Mejias when the boys cannot openly carry their guns. Cuthbert is quick-witted and sometimes has a way with words—his proclivity for words can be noticed as he often stops to repeat and muse over phrases he finds to be nice and 'round'.
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Selfridge suffered from writer's block and paid a former student to write up the result, even though it is only two pages long. As a mathematician, Selfridge was one of the most effective number theorists with a computer. He also had a way with words. On the occasion that another computational number theorist, Samuel Wagstaff, was lecturing at the semiannual Bloomington Illinois Number Theory Conference on his computer investigations into Fermat's Last Theorem, someone a little too pointedly asked him what methods he was using and kept insisting on an answer.
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A Way with Words is an American weekly public radio program discussing the use of language (mainly American and Canadian English), with other languages earning more occasional mention) in everyday life, along with linguistics, lexicology and folk etymology from a pool of listener questions from weekly callers into the program, along with a weekly word game with quiz expert and comedian John Chaneski. The program is distributed mainly for weekend airing across member stations of NPR, utilizing the Public Radio Exchange for program distribution. That week's program is then distributed weekly as a podcast on Mondays.
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"Bill the Bloodhound" was included in the anthology The Faber Book of Stories, published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1960 and edited by Kathleen Lines.McIlvaine (1990), p. 196, E68. An excerpt of "The Romance of an Ugly Policeman" was included in the 1982 anthology A Way with Words: Favorite Pieces Chosen by Famous People, edited by Christina Shewell and Virginia Dean, and published by Sinclair Browne, London; it was chosen by Robert Bolt.McIlvaine (1990), p. 197, E114. "The Mixer" was included in the 1985 US collection A Wodehouse Bestiary, edited by D. R. Bensen.McIlvaine (1990), p. 130, B34.
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"(權不聽，特召問濬，濬荅：「以五千兵往，足可以擒伷。」權曰：「卿何以輕之？」) Jiang Biao Zhuan annotation in Sanguozhi vol. 61. Pan Jun replied: "Fan Zhou is from an old clan in Nanyang Commandery. Although he has a way with words, he doesn't have the talents of an orator. I know this because Fan Zhou once said that he would prepare a day-long feast for the folks in the commandery, but the food never showed up by midday so about ten people got up and left.
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'A Perfect Ganesh' " curtainup.com, August 28, 2008 David Gordon, reviewing for the nytheatre of the 2008 WorkShop Theater Company production wrote: "McNally certainly has a way with words and captures the essence of these women as if he's known them his entire life. Yet, despite the Pulitzer nomination, I don't think Ganesh is the best play in his canon. The play is overwrought and overlong; most of the scenes in the second act end in such a way that you feel they can be a satisfying closer to the play, yet it just keeps going... 'A Perfect Ganesh', is certainly a bit of McNally's response to the AIDS crisis.
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Suzman has said of Roos "Graham Roos has a way with words; his poetry is vivid, catchy and thought-provoking. He leads the generation of young troubadours responding with verve to the world we have dumped on them." In 2009 Roos presented a semi-staged reading of a new play Son of Many Fathers, with Derek Jacobi in the lead, directed by Di Trevis at the European School of Young Performers, and in 2010 showcased a performance of his most recent play Her Holiness the Pope at LAMDA. In 2012, he joined the staff at LAMDA leading the Foundation Course in History and context of Theatre and teaching the MA in High Comedy.
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Tolu Akinyemi is the author of three collections of poetry. His first collection 'Your Father Walks Like A Crab' (2013), was described by Lola Shoneyin as "a witty debut". In 2017 and 2018, he was named one of ‘100 most influential Nigerian writers under 40'. In 2017, he won the Nigerian Writers’ Award (Poetry writer of the year) for his poetry collection "I Laugh at These Skinny Girls". His works have been featured in magazines and anthologies including the Association of Nigerian Authors Anthologies ('Verses from the Sun' and 'A Way with Words'), Forward Poetry's ‘Great British Write- off Anthology’, and Black History Month Magazine. In 2017 he obtained the Arts Council England’s, ‘exceptional talent endorsement’ as a writer.
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Tweet's voice was compared to the album's title with critics saying "she's not called the Southern Hummingbird for no reason", describing her vocals as "[s]oft, gentle, emotional and captivating". Lyrically the album fixates on the opposite sex, noted by The A.V. Club for its lyrical "intensity that borders on pathological". The album opens with Tweet "writhing in a pit of suicidal despair", followed by themes of Tweet singing about chastised cheating men, pined for the commitment-phobic, offered to take back lovers, and generally behaved like a strong woman whose happiness is nevertheless dependent almost entirely on her romantic entanglements." The album's lyrics received large amounts of praise with reviewers say Tweet has a way with words continuing to say "songs like 'Beautiful' helped us understand how lyrics can move people.
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Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage. He is also co-host and co-producer of the nationwide public radio show A Way With Words, author of Perfect English Grammar (Zephyros Press, 2016, ), and editor of the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (McGraw-Hill, 2006, ), the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (Oxford University Press, 2004, ), and the award-winning web site Double-Tongued Dictionary. He is also the vice president of communications and technology for the American Dialect Society, a former member of the editorial review board for the academic journal American Speech, former editor of the journal's "Among the New Words" column, and a founder of the online dictionary Wordnik. Grant holds a degree in French from Columbia University and has studied at the Université Paris Diderot.
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Dylan is backed on the album by his regular touring band, plus David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Dylan commented on Campbell's guitar work in his interview with Flanagan: "He's good with me. He's been playing with Tom for so long that he hears everything from a songwriter's point of view and he can play most any style." Dylan wrote all but one of the album's songs with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, with whom he had previously co-written two songs on his 1988 album Down in the Groove. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan commented on the collaboration: “Hunter is an old buddy, we could probably write a hundred songs together if we thought it was important or the right reasons were there... He's got a way with words and I do too.
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Charles Harrington Elster (born 1957, New York City)Charles Harrington Elster - Profile of a Logophile is an American writer, broadcaster, and logophile. In 1998, he cofounded and cohosted the weekly public radio show A Way with Words, which he resigned from in 2004 after a dispute with management. Elster is the author of numerous books about language, including the adult vocabulary- building programs Word Workout and Verbal Advantage; the high school vocabulary-building novels Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the SAT and Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT; The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which the late William Safire of The New York Times called "the most readable, sensible, and prescriptive guide to the words that trip us up"; The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted guide to unusual but unusually useful words; What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language; and How to Tell Fate from Destiny, and Other Skillful Word Distinctions.
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Melvyn Bragg said it "provided a bleak epic of life on the wrong side of the underprivileged".Bragg, Melvyn (23 October 1985), PUNCH Gary Price said "The lyrics – in common with many of Joey Parratt's other songs – mix a healthy cynicism with compassion and humour".Price, Gary (27 March 1986), "Joey's lyrical road to success", The Cardiff Post while Mick Tems derided some of the other songs on the album to praise it saying "The song grabs you places other songs can't reach".Tems, Mick (31 August 1987), "Joey, John shine for Songsearch", South Wales Echo Red Dragon Radio DJ and Cardiff Post Columnist, Gary Price wrote "To say Joey Parratt has a way with words is to use a cliché which ill-defines a superb lyrical talent",Price, Gary (27 March 1986), "Joey's lyrical road to success", The Cardiff Post adding "I have rarely read a book of lyrics and been so overwhelmed by the wit and humour whilst at the same time touched by the obvious humanity of the author".
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