The cry-in-your-beer classic "One for My Baby" was confided in quiet, hesitant phrases until a blip of desperation — "this torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might explode" — momentarily poked through the glumness; the guitarist Ed Decker, fleshing out Harold Arlen's melody, stood for Joe the bartender setting up drinks as he witnessed the narrator's distress.
When we talk, we often use little interjections and hesitant phrases such as "ummm" or "I mean" and of course there is the ubiquitous "like".
When we talk, we often use little interjections and hesitant phrases such as "um" or "I mean" and of course there is the ubiquitous "like".
Can use appropriate intonation in the most familiar of words and phrases; hesitant speech makes the listener's task difficult.
When the narration resumes, about a dead man on Khan's train journey to Calcutta, the phrases are hesitant, revealing his confused reactions at the time, adrift in the presence of death in an unfamiliar culture.
The duets for Glover and Davis especially have the look of improvisation; the dancing never seems hesitant or unformed, but certain phrases often appear to be a pleasant surprise to both men, as though they've just spoken poems they made up on the spot.
In a phrase I'm hesitant to use -- because it's 1) so clichéd and 2) something we should all be doing anyway -- agencies and their clients alike must think outside the box.
Ask your more hesitant friends (more politely than I phrase it here): Would you rather go to the polls and keep Republicans out of power, or sit at home and feel smug?
If you explained to him why, say, Jeff Koons or Damian Hirst was not quite the monster he had imagined, he would listen patiently, and then sum up your wavering, hesitant hems and haws in a neat phrase: "Hmmmn…Well, Yes.
The juxtaposition of meditative sentences in hesitant syntax with sudden images of urban decay; the unexplained phrase in a foreign language; the linking of Hindu mysticism and Blitz fire-fighting – what could be more Eliotic?
