In the school's music library, my habitual retreat, I heard Fischer-Dieskau and the Juilliard's Columbia Masterworks recording of the work, and the score's combination of profound melancholy with patrician elegance and impeccable craftsmanship was both a model and a comfort.
Often the snatches of spoken English that we do hear are habitual phrases or favourite idioms, timeless curses or exclamations.
Between each number the jazz musician's habitual question could be heard: "Do you know... ?" Mike knew them all.
I could hear my habitual self-judging the sights my road-trip self was embracing.
Goold continues the theme of speech-making on the heath, suggesting that Lear, a habitual leader, imagines his oratory is heard by the whole world as he launches into "Blow, winds..
Once a habitual yeller with a voice that could be heard across two football fields, he now gives instructions that are usually inaudible except to the players nearest to him.
What we have yet to hear from presidential candidates or the habitual hawks is the appropriate spiritual response to the war in Iraq -- repentance.
After dinner Varamo makes his habitual short walk to the local cafe, and as usual he hears voices uttering unintelligible codes and formulas.
Everywhere men marvelled at it, but of all those who saw it none could have marvelled more than those sailors, habitual watchers of the stars, who far away at sea had heard nothing of its advent and saw it now rise like a pygmy moon and climb zenithward and hang overhead and sink westward with the passing of the night.
Wherever I may perambulate, on land or sea or atmospheric vapour, you will always hear my chanting this melody, indicate the way to my habitual abode.
He was also unhappy when he heard that Dan Warthen, the team's pitching coach, described him as a "habitual liar" regarding his own health.
