Mr. Redman favors long, gliding lines that occasionally shift into faster, rippling phrases; Mr. Carroll usually juxtaposes short, rifflike phrases with bursts of quick scales and arpeggios.
Every line of a song becomes a small drama of confidences and crescendos, of pauses and payoffs, of gliding lines and percussive interjections.
In more than one song she repeated the word "aman" ("tranquillity"), a traditional springboard for improvisation, and found lavish possibilities: in feathery quavers and undulating trills, in lightly gliding lines and insistent swoops, in a tone that moved between declamation and lament.
Ms. Shankar echoes both her father's singing phrases and his aggressive, joyfully flamboyant attack, and Mr. Kulur played up the contrast with gliding, curling lines teasing against her staccato ones.
A shadow passes above us -- a magnificent frigate bird, its amazing red pouch tucked out of sight -- then a long gliding line of pelicans.
A deep, unwavering "Om" filled Carnegie Hall during the fifth annual benefit for Tibet House when the audience sang to accompany Yungchen Lhamo's pristine, gliding vocal lines.
Using effects usually associated with heavy guitars – reverb, flanging and phasers – Numan drenched the gliding synth lines so they flow over you like wave after wave of ice water.
He's not giving up his languidly gliding, vibrato-loving melody lines, which separate him immediately from the percussive, on-the-beat delivery of most current pop.
"That's one of ours," Ms. Olszewska said excitedly, pointing to a sleek green and yellow tram from the No. 16 line, gliding past the handsome stone building that houses the philharmonic here.
Nevertheless, "Wadjda" deserves its place in the canon of two-wheeled movies: a slim but distinguished line, gliding from De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves," Tati's "Jour de Fête," and Truffaut's "Les Mistons" through to the Dardenne brothers' "The Kid with a Bike".
THIS month, at G.M.'s factory in Lansing, Mich., the bodies of Cadillac CTS sedans and the new SRX crossover vehicle were gliding down the line next to one another, processed without a hiccup thanks to a system that G.M. calls C-Flex.
