Sentence examples for crisp phrasing from inspiring English sources

Athill's signature is precise, crisp phrasing of the kind that has the reader scrabbling for something with which to underline it.

Hadelich did not fuss, and he did not flinch at Frühbeck's propulsive tempos or crisp phrasing.

It started convincingly enough, and there were times, almost without number, when this or that previously overlooked detail, dab of colour, or crisp phrase came up freshly minted.

There was nothing painful about it and much to make a teacher proud, since Professor Pildes is well on his way to mastering a new discipline: teaching a national audience, using crisp phrases rather than discursive lectures.

The fiasco of Churchill and Kitchener's Gallipoli campaign the following year ended up mimicking the stalemate in France it was designed to terminate; the "butcher's bill", in McMeekin's crisp phrase, was well over half a million casualties with no strategic advantage to either side (though the Turks, who had repulsed the allied invasion, at least felt like victors).

Though he is far from alone among modern conductors – think Gardiner, think Herreweghe, think Rattle – in trying to restore clearer textures, crisper phrasing and a general press-on approach to the composer, Chailly's current Brahms cycle at the Barbican, with his outstanding Leipzig orchestra, is undoubtedly a major event.

His is a black-and-white style of playing that alternates between self-assured snappish strumming and crisp melodic phrasing.

Mr. Godard himself would probably be the first to wonder (in crisp, epigrammatic phrases) why a single film from the early part of his career should be worth more, at least to those crazy Late Capitalists, than four films from the later half ("Passion," 1982; "Hélas Pour Moi," 1993; "First Name: Carmen," 1983; and "Detective," 1985).