He delivers solos the way fiction writers create stories for The New Yorker: cleanly, communicatively, with every line leading to a satisfying denouement.
Part of the emotional rhetoric of delivering solos these days is letting yourself go -- a rhetoric that can be used even when lots of stock phrases are being used.
Clad in skinny jeans and accompanied by Pablo Menares (bass) and Jochen Rueckert (drums), she appeared never to break a sweat throughout her flawless set, delivering solos that groove but also demand introspection.
Trump had never delivered a solo press conference as President.
Aaron Freeman has outlived Gene Ween and delivered a solo record with a number of superlative songs.
Watkins himself delivered the solo part with even greater assurance than at its 2002 premiere.
The acerbic British rocker Jarvis Cocker, formerly of Pulp, delivered a solo album, "Jarvis," in 2007 that was pretty much in constant rotation around these parts.
— John Donohue The acerbic British rocker Jarvis Cocker, formerly of Pulp, delivered a solo album, "Jarvis," in 2007 that was pretty much in constant rotation around these parts.
Another new song, "Impossible Germany," put Mr. Cline in a similarly crucial role, and he delivered a solo that was compositional as well as cathartic.
