As was discussed in the formation and development of BREXIT section, BREXIT is a lexeme formed by a blend of 'British' and 'exit', which makes it a complex lexeme as it carries a phrasal meaning, i.e. Classifier + Thing in experiential terms or modifier + head in logical terms (see Fontaine 2017b), and so it is effectively a condensed noun phrase.
There is not a single scene but several condensed into phrases.
But she also condensed her phrases into great wipes of sound up and down the horn, and clamped into the rhythm so that her notes seemed wired to Mr. Rueckert's interplay of ride cymbal and snare.
There's a worldview condensed into this phrase, which is that professionals and consumers are inefficient without external discipline, which must take the form of a market price.
We mash consonants, replace vowels at whim, and even when we enunciate we condense whole phrases into single words: "What did you eat?" becoming "Wha'djeet?" We drop syllables on whims, and written vowels sound nothing like spoken vowels ("horrible" being "harrible", for instance).
Kirkpatrick recalled a throwaway Shadid phrase that condensed millennia to contrast Tahrir with a self-mocked Egyptian submissiveness reaching back to the Pharaohs: "A people who once complained of their own quiescence would no longer stay quiet".
Throughout the XIXth century, memories of the French emigration were condensed into a rhetorical phrase ("le milliard des émigrés") used and manipulated for a number of different political purposes (Franke).
At first, the "oku" in "tsunde oku" morphed into "doku," meaning "to read," but since "tsunde doku" is a bit of a mouthful, the phrase eventually condensed into "tsundoku". And a word for reading addicts was born.
It's fascinating to hear the arguments and context, then see them blossom into her most openly issue-driven lyrics – Everything But the Girl's 1984 single "Mine", for instance, about a single mother, distils that peculiar poetry of song, where so much is condensed into simple, impressionistic phrasing.
