Still, one can see how listeners who prefer decisively clear structures might find this symphony intolerably amorphous: the listeners who left may simply have lost patience with its often slow-moving clouds of string and brass coloration.
I prefer topics decisively in my native professional purview to those connected along troubling tangents.
I would prefer that our country joined others and dealt decisively with tyrants like Assad and his regime's war crimes, and with the Egyptian military and their coup d'état.
Just after the midterm elections that so decisively favored Republicans, 53% of Americans said they would prefer that Republicans in Congress have more influence over the nation's direction, whereas 36% opted for Obama, for a GOP-tilted spread of 17 percentage points.
Told that his friend, sparring partner, Olympic gold medallist and world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua thought he had won decisively, Joyce said: "It's a bit of consolation, but I'd prefer to be the Olympic champion".
It asked the question "would you rather have a smaller government providing fewer services, or bigger government providing more services?" A majority of all voters favored smaller government by a 48-41 margin, but Hispanics preferred a bigger government decisively, by 75 to 19 percent.
Without its captain and playmaker, Claudio Reyna, who had duties with Sunderland in the English Premier League and prefers a slower possession game, the United States moved the ball quickly and decisively, producing a style that was open and entertaining.
That year, she lost decisively to the Nationalist Party candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, whose historical ties to the mainland made him Beijing's preferred choice.
But Dodd believes that it is still possible for a New England liberal (he prefers the word "progressive") to succeed in national politics, particularly when the country is turning decisively against the war.
