He said Mr. Sorensen had "a rare gift": the knack of finding phrases that penetrated the American psyche.
These lines, rather than the more pressingly political lines around them, are quintessential Zagajewski, insisting on mixing the deeply playful with the highly grave, finding phrases such as "the dead don't have much to say", which even in translation remains oddly affecting in its calm mystery, wry acceptance and slow, sly shrug.
But finding the phrases is a large part of writing.
In between was Weir, following the example of the left hand of the pianist McCoy Tyner, he told me years ago, inverting chords and finding passing phrases among them, mostly supporting but sometimes subverting, too.
Soroush advocated a type of reformist Islam that went beyond most liberal Muslim thinkers of the 20th century and argued that the search for reconciliation of Islam and democracy was not a matter of simply finding appropriate phrases in the Qurʾān that were in agreement with modern science, democracy, or human rights.
His first collections appeared at a time when sampling was becoming common in pop music, and his approach to composition has often been compared to that of a d.j., borrowing material freely, finding preëxisting phrases that cohere (or clash) with his own purposes.
By analogy, our current task can be viewed as finding entity phrases in text, making this program suitable for analysis.
In "Teaching Daily in the Temple", the speaker senses a missing piece of wisdom is "still there in the coded / labyrinth I must infiltrate again", before finding the phrase on "lips / that move in the grave".
Do this by saying something simple, finding a phrase or words that have the power to make people happy.
The statistical techniques used included clustering of nominals into similarity groups based on their tendency to occur in the same argument positions of the same verbs, and finding similar relational phrases (such as "finds a solution to" and "solves"), based their tendency to connect the same, or similar, pairs of nominals.
Cameras trained on the vacuum chamber showed the dogs swelling up like balloons or, as a paper summarizing the study's findings phrased it, "an inflated goat-skin bag".
