They, too, can read and write, of course, but their "solecisms," "barbarisms," and "vulgarisms" call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all — to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered? ❋ Unknown (1984)
These mathematical solecisms are illustrated with many topical examples, ranging from the non-perils of NutraSweet and the inequities of the death penalty to the numerical skullduggery behind the U.S. abandonment of the nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union in 1982. ❋ John Allen Paulos (2010)
He's an insane, full-on, writing monster, providing timely judgments ( "there is literary worth to be found within mass culture") and solecisms galore, and no mere newspaper editor's sense of, er, literacy will stop him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But there's no denying that Solenn 'Lavanant Linke's touching Dido and Yeree Suh's bright Belinda are not totally idiomatic in their command of the language, and there are some solecisms from all the cast. ❋ Nicholas Kenyon (2010)
In my mouth it becomes clunky and without music, full of awkward solecisms and embarrassed pauses. ❋ Veejane (2009)
Am I always going to look back and see the errors, inconsistencies and literary solecisms in my work? ❋ Unknown (2010)
He even took private instruction in English, and succeeded in eliminating his worst faults, though in moments of excitement he was prone to lapse into "you-all," "knowed," "sure," and similar solecisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Palin has mastered the art of converting her malapropisms, solecisms, and other blunders (social and linguistic) into badges of patriotism and into testimony of her carefully contrived image as someone who represents the working people of America. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And it's a mistake to read too much significance into these slips and solecisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Vulgate translation of the Bible into Greek from its original Hebrew text contains a number of solecisms the most famous of which is in the translation of Moses 'appearance on his descent from Mt. Sinai, after having received the Ten Commandments, as being' horned. ' ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. ❋ Omnivoracious (2009)
Suddenly, Chelsea sprung up from the floor and leapt onto Thad like an attack dog, beating and slapping and clawing him, screaming bloody solecisms. ❋ Andrew Oye (2009)
But, my dear Ms. Rabett, a real nitpicker would never commit such sloppy solecisms, would she? ❋ EliRabett (2009)
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism." ❋ Unknown (2009)
There, as a pundit who of America appeared to be as proud as of his Jewish roots, he felt no less affronted by solecisms, inexactitudes and gaffes, than by excesses of the politicians who abused the system. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even the glorious King James version of the bible has deliberate solecisms designed to divert [pervert] the common man. ❋ Unknown (2009)
