The compression extends to meter, Mr. Gilberto omitting beats at the end of an orderly pattern and throwing completed phrases in our laps before the ear is ready to receive them.
Contestants watch video clips of the previous day's National Football League games, then vie to complete phrases like: "You call that a pass?
Plaintively, in his clear, high voice, the composer sang, "I want to die …," and the chorus completed his phrase: "… like Lazarus did".
At the end, she let her voice swell to a tremendous sustained note on the word Felsen — "rock" — apparently pushing her voice to the limit; then, drawing on an inexhaustible reserve of power, she completed the phrase with undiminished force.
Living fast and hard was indeed a part of the mandate, and in some cases it was the art of the artless, but bad luck is what completed the phrase, and hardly anybody left a good-looking corpse.
Quote-unquote -- as a complete phrase, not separated by the words quoted -- is now our primary derogator.
The first theme entry I actually filled in was [MAN]AGE EXPECTATIONS, which I got right off the bat, but tried to fill in the complete phrase from left to right.
And HAVE A GOOD MIND TO is a great entry but, whew, that is one heck of a partial (an entry that isn't a complete phrase in itself).
For instance, searching for "variation under domestication" finds some pages with this complete phrase, but it also finds pages in which these words to not appear together.
We use Moses, a complete phrase based translation toolkit for academic purposes.
