Right at the end, the principal horn lets loose a soft, bright little interval, a rising major third.
This little interval is touching and beautifully written, but it takes place in a Harvard Square of the mind, not the real one.
So this kid had missed it totally, then, his windy little interval between birth and death.
Serial photos showed little interval change and good skin expansion (Fig. 1).
Break the future into little intervals, and it never ends: this is the Keatsian solution to imminent mortality, but Tanning, with her resolved good nature, her lightness of touch, and her longevity, is the least Keatsian poet imaginable.
Exactly halfway through, there's a little chapter called Interval, in which alternating lines of italic type have a discussion about where we are: – So we're in a book?
It was measure of what Liverpool were offering that a City whose manager says they will always attack tightened up a little after the interval, with Fernandinho reducing the threat of being caught on the break.
If they were indeed rereading, this was a spectacular feat (the shortlist alone adds up to 2,500 pages), but issuing a longlist at all looks a little pointless when the interval is so short.
In the second movement, a mournful melody passes through the upper strings over a repeating bass line, and in the finale — a little rustic, with open intervals, like Copland — the cello finally seems to reach a place of peace.
