Kesha also uses a trademark talky "white-girl" rapping style with exaggerated discordant phrasing and enunciation.
In lyrical moments, like the clarinet line that opens the second-movement Adagio, it seemed as if the players were overcompensating for being out of their usual modern and contemporary repertory, phrasing with exaggerated intensity.
His tendency to milk phrases with exaggerated expressivity imbued the Schubert with a Sinatra-like swooning quality.
Occasionally in the Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, there was a sense of self-regard about a phrase, an exaggerated quality, as if it were being played within quotation marks.
(In "Being Dead," even the bodies have points of view; so do the gulls tearing at them, and the crabs laboring corpseward "through their exaggerated countryside". This phrase transforms their crooked gait from our take on crabs to the crabs' take on the world).
The beefy and so often bare-chested men charging about the stage, the glowing women rushing to and fro with sometimes gratuitous smiles and other exaggerated facial expressions, the phrases that give us the same jump or stride or run several times in quick succession: all these can seem a bit too simple and old-fashioned for comfort.
The reports of grammar's death have been greatly exaggerated, to borrow a phrase from Mark Twain.
Even in movements that were jarring, or aggressive — Nishimura's angular, spring-loaded phrases; Lieber's exaggerated, butt-out stride — the dance was somehow warm and enveloping.
The German conductor Ingo Metzmacher, who made his Tanglewood debut the week before with the student orchestra, showed a slightly exaggerated public manner himself, overconducting simple phrases and notably failing to achieve clean entrances on a number of occasions.
Owen Smith has said being accused of using sexist language was "the most mortifying experience" and a handful of phrases he used had been exaggerated and taken out of context to present a false impression.
