She's a brilliant exponent of rubato dancing, stretching chosen phrases to breaking point and then flying through the music with ecstatic abandon.
When Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, visited Beijing last month, Tillerson even recited Beijing's chosen phrases about "mutual respect" and "win-win solutions".
He had a flair for sensational stories — he chose phrases like "crime scene" and "chemically castrated" — and he seemed to revel in details about Syngenta's conflicts of interest, presenting theories as if he were relating gossip to friends.
But a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge finds that people tend to choose phrases made up not of unrelated words but of words that already occur together, such as "dead poets society".
The hidden ride operator, armed with a computer and cameras that scan the crowd, will then choose phrases based on the actions and appearance of people standing in front of it.
Asked to describe the Breeders' Cup, for example, most respondents chose phrases like "a day of racing primarily for horse breeders" or "primarily for younger horses that will go on to run the Triple Crown events," rather than the accurate "horse racing's season-ending championship day," according to an ESPN Sports poll.
Sombre illustrations in dull hues suggest the isolation of the vulnerable man, the page layouts separating him from the threatening crowd, whose lack of compassion, though never explicitly spelt out, is evidenced in the illustrative juxtapositions and the carefully chosen phrases of the simple, fable-like text.
The user can choose phrases from individual categories or use the learning function with its virtual tab system, which saves the progress you have made.
Both the dictionary and phrasebook hold all of the words and phrases in each game, as well as meanings and audio files for both; the player can look through different categories of words and phrases, use a search function, and bookmark chosen phrases.
Nintendo World Report's review of the DS version of My French Coach called the game's reference section "a very handy travel dictionary", noting that having a dictionary list and a phrasebook with audio files that could bookmark chosen phrases was "an absurd value".
