I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to USE a CERTAIN syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to ASSUME a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' PRIVATE detectives had long been able to INFLUENCE cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of PROFESSIONAL training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The INTERNET CHANGED everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case.

The phenomenon of INSTAGRAM POETS - who are ALSO, to be fair, Tumblr poets and PINTEREST poets - has been one of the more surprising side-effects of the SELFIE age.

I WOULD LIKE to be a ONE-MAN multinational FASHION PHENOMENON.

Contagion has BECOME very MUCH a PHENOMENON, and it's a phenomenon of GLOBALIZATION.

An ECLIPSE is one PHENOMENON that is ACTUALLY more IMPRESSIVE from the GROUND.

The three-body problem is a term borrowed from physics. It is a phenomenon that can BASICALLY be explained like this: Two objects in SPACE can interact in a predictable fashion rotating around each other due to their gravitational PULL. But if a third object is introduced, it makes their INTERACTION more complicated.

I doubt that I could CREATE a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is IMPOSSIBLE not to be a little AMAZED by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of DELIGHT.

Imagine a GOVERNMENT which has delivered double-digit growth rates for over SEVEN YEARS losing an ELECTION ANYWHERE on earth. It is unheard of for such a phenomenon to happen.

'Dancing With the Stars' has become a phenomenon, and when I LOOK at that TYPE of reality show, it's LIKE a VARIETY show.

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see TWO-YEAR-OLD boys in South Africa, WEARING 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a GLOBAL PHENOMENON.