{"id":2138,"date":"2010-07-28T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T08:05:00","slug":"other_matters_language_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/07\/other_matters_language_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: Irritating Clich\u00c3\u00a9 Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This rhetorical padding is used by countless politicians and, it seems, nearly everyone interviewed or quoted in the news, from President Obama on down:<br \/>\n<big><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;&#8230;going forward&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">and its variant, <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><big>&#8220;&#8230;moving forward&#8230;&#8221;<\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Take it out of virtually any sentence and you will lose no meaning. Example:<br \/>\n&#8220;The administration will keep a close watch on this, moving forward.&#8221;<br \/>\nGetting rid of &#8220;moving forward;&#8221; now, that would be moving forward.<br \/>\nOf course, properly used, the phrase can be a source of inspiration&#8230;or amusement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself<\/em>&#151;<br \/>\nHenry Ford <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game<\/em>&#151;<br \/>\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward<\/em>&#151;<br \/>\nDan Quayle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/red%20arrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"red arrow.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/red arrow-thumb-100x60-16519.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rhetorical padding is used by countless politicians and, it seems, nearly everyone interviewed or quoted in the news, from President Obama on down: &#8220;&#8230;going forward&#8230;&#8221; and its variant, &#8220;&#8230;moving forward&#8230;&#8221; Take it out of virtually any sentence and you will lose no meaning. Example: &#8220;The administration will keep a close watch on this, moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}