Sentence examples for higher phrase from inspiring English sources
The swaying of the ship is captured in heaving music, and the inexorable playing of the main theme, as it shifts higher phrase by phrase, made each harmonic turn seem a shock.
Studies in Chinese intonation show that the diverse surface patterns can be accounted for by two consistent features: 1. Interrogative intonation has a higher phrase curve than declarative intonation; 2. Sentence final syllables have more careful intonation and wider pitch swings in interrogative sentences (Yuan et al., 2002; Zeng, Martin and Boulakia, 2004).
Consequently, although computer-modified and natural playbacks contained courtship songs with natural phrases (see Fig. 1 for definition), i.e., phrases with natural pulse rate, computer-modified playbacks were characterized by a higher phrase rate.
The Requiem shows Takemitsu's style in embryo: the first violins begin with a soft, sustained F-sharp; second violins and cellos add a thick chord that consists of E-flat-major and B-flat-major triads superimposed; and the violas play a high phrase that twists slowly in place as harmonies shift underfoot.
In high phrases he can sing with choirboy purity; in his weaker low range he sometimes barks and delivers words with grainy emphasis.
Kennedy is already gaining a reputation for his Britten: the articulation is impeccable, and he colours the high phrases without any strain.
Absent microphones, outdoors at the coliseum-size Roman arena in Verona, which seats thousands upon thousands, he took the bold choice to sing his highest phrases pianissimo and was gratified to hear from listeners that it gave them goose bumps.
Word came over the radio from "higher", the phrase used to describe senior command, that an incident had occurred, a cross-border, highly political incident.
In the old high Tory phrase: the Queen's business must be carried on.
It begins with Moreno playing a high, tentative phrase on his guitar.
Mr. Friend handled an insistent high-note phrase with subtle gradations of volume and touch.
