Think about several different confidence-building phrases, and tell yourself these phrases, preferably out loud.
I ended up building Lilliputian phrases from tiny themes less than a second long".
His starting point seems random, but he very quickly has the student building simple phrases and then sentences.
It doesn't seem to get mentioned, for example, that "anti-personnel," "delivering hardware," "pacification mission," and "nation building" are phrases, along with "better dead than Red," that only a people out of touch with the meaning of language could use with any seriousness.
By the late 1980s, after its conversion to condominiums, it became a target as the "Die, yuppie scum" building — a phrase that gained currency during the Tompkins Square Park rioting.
Across downtown Asunción on Sunday, low expectations about the race were evident in the colorful graffiti painted on dozens of buildings, including phrases like "Our dreams don't fit in your ballot boxes".
There were times when Whitacre's Deep Field sounded somewhat similar to this shifting soundscape, with simple phrases building on top of one another.
In two walk-ons, he played "What's New" and "It's All Right With Me," elegantly pulling downward glissandos around his lines, leaving open space in the ballad and building on blues phrases in the uptempo song.
Instead, our 9- and 11-year-olds were passing the time by building the silliest phrases they could find from the translation software loaded on our Garmin Nuvi G.P.S. unit and delivered by Emily, a synthesized voice.
Petronio had created a constantly shifting landscape, in which groupings came and went in pristine but short-lived episodes, phrases building in complexity, winding and unwinding, and his collaborators kept up with this varied exploration.
