Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

Alissa Wilkinson in "VOX" reviewing Hereditary:"...builds to a (literal) crescendo by the end"

Talk about literally rubbing it in...

[french frank]

Alissa Wilkinson in "VOX" reviewing Hereditary:"...builds to a (literal) crescendo by the end"

Talk about literally rubbing it in...

I wonder what a (metaphorical) crescendo is, other than not being quite as … (words fail).

[Lat-Literal]

I wonder what a (metaphorical) crescendo is, other than not being quite as … (words fail).

Lateral?

[greenilex]

I dislike rhetorical redundancy...when I was younger I used to be over enthusiastic, but advancing years have pruned my prose. Only a snippet, though.

[teamsaint]

I dislike rhetorical redundancy...when I was younger I used to be over enthusiastic, but advancing years have pruned my prose. Only a snippet, though.

The earlier days just a product of shear excitement ?

Apologies for any non secateur.

[Serial_Apologist]

I dislike rhetorical redundancy...when I was younger I used to be over enthusiastic, but advancing years have pruned my prose. Only a snippet, though.

I've noticed, and I'm worried that if you go much further down that path, you might disappear down your own fundamentalism!

I find the older I get (now 72) the more I seem to have to say, but correspondingly a smaller audience, what with people passing on, etc etc...

[Serial_Apologist]

The earlier days just a product of shear excitement ?

Apologies for any non secateur.

New shoots are sign of life!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"...builds to a (literal) crescendo by the end"

I can only assume it's a bit like the universe, never ending - just getting louder and louder, for ever...

[LMcD]

'Coming up - Julie (or whoever your regional TV forecaster is) with a full weather forecast'. Which details are suppressed when providing an incomplete forecast, I wonder?

[Serial_Apologist]

'Coming up - Julie (or whoever your regional TV forecaster is) with a full weather forecast'. Which details are suppressed when providing an incomplete forecast, I wonder?

And I'm left wondering what would constitute a full weather forecast!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I can only assume it's a bit like the universe, never ending - just getting louder and louder, for ever...

Well, no - if it's only "building to a crescendo" (literal or otherwise), it never actually starts to get louder; there's just a continuous feeling that soon a crescendo will begin!

[jean]

The crescendo is the 'building'. It is process not product.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The crescendo is the 'building'. It is process not product.

Yes - that's what I was trying to imply; "building/rising to a crescendo" is "building up to a building up"; or "rising to a rising".

(They mean "building to a climax".)

[french frank]

(They mean "building to a climax".)

Or "crescendoing" (vid OED for crescendo as a verb: 'intr. To increase gradually in loudness or intensity.'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or "crescendoing" (vid OED for crescendo as a verb: 'intr. To increase gradually in loudness or intensity.'