Sentence examples for graceful phrasing from inspiring English sources
Mr. Ohlsson played with fluid touch and graceful phrasing throughout, particularly admirable in the dark-hued Andantino.
Vulnerable and sweetly innocent, she sang (often in a stratospherically high range) with graceful phrasing and dynamic control.
Then two Tchaikovsky works gave iPalpiti a chance to show off its lustrous, polished tone and graceful phrasing.
Matthew Polenzani had a stellar night as an emotional Alfredo, his lovely voice strong and supple and his graceful phrasing laudable in his passionate rendition of "De' miei bollenti spiriti".
The program opened with Debussy's "Première Rhapsodie" for clarinet and piano, a showpiece for the talents of Mr. Fiterstein, who played with graceful phrasing and a full, appealing tone.
The most striking moments came with the lovely, singing tone that Mr. Miller had in the opening of the Andante con moto and the graceful phrasing all three players applied to the Scherzando movement.
The two made "a lovely charming decadent hopeless couple," as Burton notes, in a characteristically wry and graceful phrase.
Mr. Loevendie's short piece was based on slow, graceful phrases for the two string instruments, with the piano most often chiming in to decorate.
Graceful phrases and stately chord progressions hint at emotional stirrings; structures of repetition and symmetry contain them as discreetly as a stiff upper lip.
Like the Minimalists, Mr. Mansell sometimes builds melodies by accretion, starting with a note or two, repeating them and gradually adding notes until a graceful phrase emerges, as in the pristine, Chopinesque "England's Dreaming".
About 6 feet 5 inches tall and not much more than 160 pounds, he was often described as a latter-day Ichabod Crane — "the man of the awkward gait and the graceful phrase," his editors called him.
