Sentence examples for balanced phrases from inspiring English sources

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So, the speech training corpus used in this work consists of 1,000 phonetically balanced phrases [34] recorded by a man speaker, corresponding to approximately 1.6 h of audio.

Period, in music, a unit of melodic organization made up of two balanced phrases in succession; the first phrase, called the antecedent, comes to a point of partial completeness; it is balanced by the consequent, a phrase of the same length that concludes with a sense of greater completeness.

The term Neapolitan opera, in addition to its association with opera seria, also came to indicate a light ingratiating style, sometimes called gallant, which was based on the foregrounding of graceful vocal melodies, presented in symmetrical, balanced phrases.

So it is with anyone real, unlike the measured platitudes and balanced phrases that hallmark the increasing army of unreal people, who never want to risk a wrong word and so speak only in clichés.

Only later, in the work of Adriaan Willaert and Jacques Arcadelt (both of whom also wrote madrigals) did the styles begin to merge as the formal design of the chanson became less strictly reliant on balanced phrases and repeated material and more determined by the melodic imitation as a basis for structure.

Melodically, the far-flung phrases of Italian bel canto, the florid singing style characteristic of opera seria (17th- and 18th-century tragic opera), had little in common with the concise, symmetrically balanced phrases found in music of popular inspiration, whether in opera buffa (Italian comic opera) or the many types of dances.

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Davis's perfectly placed and balanced phrasing, with his spare and involuted tone, create a sort of highest-order mood music, a passionately contained romanticism reflecting the ominous elegance of vast power held in reserve.

No other character in Middle-earth has Saruman's trick of balancing phrases against each other so that incompatibles are resolved, and none comes out with words as empty as 'deploring'ultimateate', worst of all, 'real'real

Lewis nevertheless managed to cleverly dance his way through the concerto, weighing and balancing phrase against phrase.

His fullness revolutionized the writing of Latin; he is the real creator of the "periodic" style, in which phrase is balanced against phrase, with subordinate clauses woven into a complex but seldom obscure whole.

In any event, we balanced his phrase with other phrases often heard on the left: that we need to "narrow the gap between rich and poor," and "make economic outcomes more equal".

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