Proverbial understanding in a pictorial context.
There are bushels of inferior compositions on the market labelled 'blues', but the genuine article by born writers of 'blues' is as scarce as the proverbial 'hen's teeth'.
The dominant model was rather the second one,54 and its prototypical, proverbial form seems to have been the marriage of prominent scholars with rich widows.
The purpose of the accompanying social science research effort was to complement the biophysical effort to help increase the proverbial 'pile of rice' through improved production technologies.
Their clean outlines underscore the proverbial quality of the text statements.
What we witness in this scene is more than just an exchange of proverbial wisdom, although that constitutes the major element of the social language of the elders.
With the exception of reliance on the support of family networks or the proverbial money stuffed in a mattress, there were no alternative networks for old age pensioners.
Like the proverbial elephant examined by blind men, it allows quite disparate conclusions.
