colloquial

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In coarse, colloquial prose, translated by Kate Webster, these loosely united vignettes glance upon the lives of villagers who seem cursed by the land.

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“We had a colloquial term in the operating room: December Deductible Derby.”

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“We had a colloquial term in the operating room: December Deductible Derby,” said Dr. Parcells, noting that patients seeking insurance-covered surgeries like breast augmentations have deductibles in mind.

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Though the authenticity of Perpetua’s diary has occasionally been questioned, its vividness, earthy colloquial Latin and wealth of circumstantial detail strongly suggest that these are her words.

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Here Gershwin set to music Heyward’s colloquial poetry—lines that Stephen Sondheim called among “the best lyrics written, I think, for the musical stage.”

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