Subject A is visibly uncomfortable and muttering nonsensical half phrases like how he is glad he had his own entrance into the diner (something that nobody else can understand).
Singing, he floated forward on non sequiturs and half-phrases.
The organist here, Pat Bianchi, is used well in slow or dramatic music, and in the title track Mr. Warfield's solo rides a long wave, turning into hot and gestural half-phrases.
Ace's horse, an Irish Thoroughbred, is in the care of a surly Peruvian trainer, Turo Escalante John Ortizz), who makes elliptical utterances in a thick accent but is actually no more incomprehensible than most of the other characters who mutter cryptic half-phrases.
Clinton's one half-phrase of criticism was couched in a grammatically awkward construction that served to obscure its target, and was followed by an applause line.
Not just the words but the music prefigures the tremendous final scene of "The Marriage of Figaro," in which the wayward Count asks the Countess's forgiveness — "Contessa, perdono!" — and she grants it, in a half-hopeful, half-heartbroken phrase.
For most of the ensuing century and a half, the phrase maintained a modest profile, always present but far from omnipresent; you might say it just burbled along.
United lived for injury time, when they scored those euphoric winners and equalisers; Liverpool lived for the third half, a phrase used in Denmark to describe the post-match piss-up.
Maybe a jazz musician could have counted out Sen's nine-and-a-half-beat phrase, but I couldn't.
But in an utterly miserable first half, those phrases must have rung in the Jets' ears like a mournful dirge.
Earlier this week the airline's boss had used the same half-hearted phrase to express his hopes of reviving takeover talks with the Chinese state owners of Hainan Airlines.
