Sentence examples for behind the phrases from inspiring English sources
He stands always at a winking distance from words, making faces behind the phrases.
And as long as we let ourselves float on the lukewarm waves of belated solidarity (or the appearance of solidarity), we fail to hear the real question, always posed with trepidation but still audible, behind the phrases of the official eulogies: how should the world free itself from Auschwitz, from the burden of the Holocaust?
All of which sounds like so much jingoism in retrospect, but the ideals behind the phrases were what I believed -- and still believe.
His behind-the-beat phrasing, at its best, was poetry, and he is still a salubrious influence on developing musicians.
It wasn't so long ago that the singer Madeleine Peyroux, with her kittenish voice and sultry behind-the-beat phrasing, was described somewhat dismissively as a vocal clone of Billie Holiday.
MacFarlane exhibits an easy command of Sinatra-like swagger and behind-the-beat phrasing.
On "Yesterday I Had the Blues," James brings his soulful rasp and behind-the-beat phrasing to nine of Holiday's signature songs, including "Lover Man" and "Strange Fruit," which opens with James overdubbing his voice into a ghostly choir.
Among Morrison's words left behind was the phrase: "The most important thing in the world is that our faith becomes living experience and deed of life".
Behind the phrase lies an entire political strategy.
