In establishing the basis of the case, Baron Alderson, made what has become a famous definition of negligence:

The passage almost certainly derives from Henri Bergson's famous definition of comedy: the mechanical encrusted on the living.

Then follows Wirth's famous definition of the city.

That eloquent remark calls up the famous Greek definition of tyranny as a fine position because there is no retreat from it.

Everybody mockingly repeats the famous childish definition that faith is "the power of believing that which we know to be untrue."

The famous hardheaded definition of war is "the continuation of politics by other means."

Shakespeare's Polonius would have had to extend his famous definition of drama if he were to embrace Ms. Churchill's work.

Aristotle's famous definition of rhetoric is viewed as the ability in any particular case to see the available means of persuasion.

The book begins with Schmitt's famous, or notorious, definition: "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."