All this matters because it lends Chris's endless refrain of "dat ole devil, sea" a choric power.
To play for the team is to know the endless refrain about a franchise that dates back 50 years and has never thrown a no-hitter.
And we play that out till our hands are bloody and our wretched minds are an endless refrain: "Are you rushing or are you dragging?" Are you working hard enough to ever be good, great, rich, powerful, important, immortal, perfect?
Bad Manners appear to have been on pretty much every week (what must Jerry Dammers have thought, seeing his vision of ska as a politically engaged, progressive medium of social commentary reduced to endless refrains of Lip Up Fatty?), while through 1981 and 1980, heavy metal was represented primarily by Saxon.
This is the power of disco underneath the glitz and glamour, the silky strings and the ludicrously lugubrious brass, the creamy choruses and the endless refrains, there's something deeply sad at play.
This is what passes for conventional wisdom inside the Beltway in the dog days of August, but it's likely going to turn out to be just as wrong as the endless refrains of "surely this will sink Trump!" which preceded it.
Born in the Canary Islands, the outpost of Spain off northwestern Africa, and now based in Barcelona, Mr. Díaz-Reixa makes joyful music from an international assortment of loops and drumbeats — African, South Asian, Caribbean, Brazilian — and vocals, with free-associative lyrics in Spanish, that sound like a bunch of guys in a bar celebrating to endless three-chord refrains full of la-las.
"Can we please just move on?" I heard this refrain running through the endless conversations about the George Zimmerman verdict.
And the rain, of course, the endless rain: "All the umbrellas in London," runs the refrain, "couldn't hide my love for you".
This is a full-on topographical feature with roaring white water and endless vertical walls: "don't look up" might be an unusual but appropriate refrain for visitors here.
First, shares in the company were sold to Time-Life, which, while humbly refraining from any direct interference, became a constant irritant by firing off endless requests for the kind of information Deutsch could not provide.
