A Winston-Salem reader has called my attention to the mangling of a well-known expression in a statement attributed to a congressman. It appeared in a story in The New York ...

The signature family expression of joy or hangdog remorse might be more than a matter of monkey see, monkey do. It might be hard-wired into our brains.

Kaplan’s formulation was reworded to the more familiar expression, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

By LINDA KELLEYRantoul Press columnistI recently took advantage of a long weekend and went away with my college-aged daughter on a girls getaway, back to where I grew up and ...

If at first you don't succeed, as the familiar expression goes — well, you know the rest. But if "try, try again" doesn't get you better results, it may be time to switch gears, perhaps by ...

Even highly realistic androids can cause unease when their facial expressions lack emotional consistency. Traditionally, a "patchwork method" has been used for facial movements, but it ...