The lyrics, delivered in aggressive and halting tones reminiscent of US hip-hop, rely heavily on street slang indecipherable to most Egyptians of a certain age or class.
During her testimony, Ms. Weeks spoke in halting tones, was slow to answer some questions and sometimes covered her face with her hands.
At one extraordinary moment, Smith began climbing up the steps of the major scale, as if he had found a stairway to the light; but then he let his tone crack, reverted to halting chromatic steps, and fell silent.
In the plaintive, halting phrases of the first movement she played with a shimmering, delicate tone and conveyed all the mystery of the music: were you actually hearing this elusive theme, or recalling it from some distant realm?
The central episode of the slow third movement is an extended solo for piano with an elegiac, halting theme that struggles against a weighty, creeping accompaniment of sustained tones in the bass register.
They said representatives from Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, had met to discuss ways to urge Democrats to soften their tone toward Wall Street, and that Citi, JPMorgan and Bank of America considered halting donations to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
He has struck a conciliatory tone toward Iran while asking the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, for help in halting Iran's efforts to unlock the atom and build long-range missiles.
Progress will be halting.
Halting, high school Spanish.
