And, as the whole performance slowly won me over, many of McGrath's glorious phrases made me catch my breath.
On the advice of the DfES and armed with one of the London schools commissioner Tim Brighouse's glorious phrases ("Our job is to fill their pockets with confidence"), he heads off to Islington Green, a school which was apparently failed by Ofsted in the mid 90s.
Another shelf-full of ideas and glorious phrases and old friends and new, of stories in which people do what they really do best, which is use their heads to get themselves out of the trouble they got into by not thinking?
Another shelf-full of ideas and glorious phrases and old friends and new, of stories in which people do what they really do best, which is use their heads to get themselves out of the trouble they got into by not thinking?" "I rage at the imminent loss of my friend," Gaiman continued, "And I think, 'What would Terry do with this anger?' Then I pick up my pen, and I start to write".
Check out the pianissimo high B flat at the end of "Celeste Aida" or the impetuosity and the glorious final phrases of Andrea Chénier's "Improvviso".
It's the same with the sections in Punjabi, such as the "more honour and dignity compared to others" bit: according to Twitter user @junkicide, it "would better be translated as 'Zac Goldsmith is the most glorious'; such phrasing is not weird at all in Punjabi".
They shifted seamlessly from refined gestures to glorious, space-consuming phrases, all the while maintaining their individuality: Ariel with her fluttering hands, Caliban with his creature-like clambering (accompanied by recorded snuffling and growling).
His solo dancing — often reminiscent of Anthony Dowell's in lyricism and elegance (Mr. Hallberg is slightly less glorious in his musical phrasing and linear beauty, even more glorious in elevation and rapturous ease) — has become one of the peak demonstrations of dance poetry in our age.
And with that phrase I becamea glorious knight riding into the setting sun, and my heartbecame the steed underneath me.
Before long he would be famous for his glorious combinations of jazz harmony and phrasing with Cuban percussion.
