From all reports, Stadler could bend a gentle phrase with uncommon delicacy.
All we got from the president was a very gentle phrase about the trouble in Baghdad being 'unsettling'unsettling
"His economical sentences surprise you with their philosophical depth, building in simple, deceptively gentle phrases towards harsh images".
Her acceptance speech alternated between gentle phrases and an almost belligerent barking that bored many; by the end, nearly a third of the audience had filed out.
The English "thank you" does not carry the reciprocal meaning of a gift both granted and received in the sense that glows out of Eucharist: the prefix eu, as in Eugenia (wellborn) or "euphemism" (nice, kind, gentle phrase), plus cháris, from which come "charisma" and "charism" (used by religious communities to mean a particular vocation or gift).
If the foal braces against a light forward pull, you should coax it forward with soft words and gentle phrases.
Sometimes it sounds as if Ms. McKenna's voice has been slightly blunted by the warm arrangements and her gentler phrasing; she eases into syllables instead of attacking them.
When someone clicks on an item in a set, a small window pops open with a link to where she might buy it, or "flow to a transaction," in Lee's gentler phrasing.
Arooj Aftab, a Pakistani-American singer, reworked the gentle, rippling phrases of the light-classical style called thumri over meditative guitar parts by Bhrigu Sahni that eased toward jazz and rock harmonies.
The sound of what seemed like multiple alarm clocks began piercing the gentle ostinato phrases played by Ms. Chow, producing alluring timbres as the electronic layers modulated around the changing patterns at the piano.
The two Lost in Death episodes join slow, folky throbs, whistly electronic jigs and gentle, tailchasing phrases for Pete Wareham's and Mark Lockheart's saxes, and Maliana sounds like a 21st-century Albert Ayler.
