Mostly self-taught, Horace doubled as a saxophonist as a teenager before concentrating on the piano and emulating the bebop great Bud Powell's intricate right-hand phrases and blunt, propulsive touch.
In some pieces — like his "Quasar," with a repeated two-chord figure in the left hand — there were steady anchors; in some improvised pieces, based on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" chord changes, there was just a kind of floating, signified by long, improvised right-hand phrases, accelerating and decelerating.
But in the wrong hands, phrases can make prose more muddy than musical.
His lyrics alternate between genuine feels and tongue-in-cheek wordplay, and his album titles are off-hand phrases like, "Nah, I'm Good," and "Oh, Cool".
Compare, again, the "Evening Star" aria in the Thielemann and Barenboim accounts: in Mr. Thielemann's hands, phrase after phrase is shaped and pointed and yet breathes with inner life; in Mr. Barenboim's, the same music sounds lovely but anonymous.
The report covers a tonne of information about the "Runet" (the short-hand phrase for Russian internet market).
The aphorism, often attributed to the conservative philosopher James Burnham (though it originated in the fable of Hansel and Gretel), is a short-hand phrase that is intended to capture the requirement of intellectual consistency.
For instance, alongside the word "Faine" the annotator has added, in his cramped hand, the phrases "We are faine to use" and "I was faine to seeke".
On the other hand, imperfect phrases such as "was having an affair" and "was removing homes" suggest that the bad deeds may still be happening and, hence, that the politician is less electable.
On the other hand, the phrases "land grabbing" and "land speculation" are perfectly applicable to other land transactions that have been taking place throughout Ethiopia over the past several years.
On the other hand, the phrases and codes were identified from transcripts, providing the basis for generating new categories or subcategories, as well as modifying the categories developed by induction.
