Sentence examples similar to in mid phrase from inspiring English sources

It simply stopped, cutting to black in mid-phrase.

It moves between the formal grace of ballet classicism and more deliberately imperfect genres, sometimes in mid-phrase.

Mitchell had to make a new kind of song, in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music.

Different sections played at different tempos, with passages accelerating like a locomotive coming up to speed, or slowing down like a turntable unplugged in mid-phrase.

By Dan Chiasson Mitchell wanted to make a new kind of song, one in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music.

Sondheim's songs make a fetish of surprise, especially in their melodies, which squirm and double back on themselves, and even end seemingly in mid-phrase--anything to avoid predictability.

I don't know if this was the exact same version that was performed in Eugene, but the piece that I heard in Columbia fit the description: it seemed to end in mid-phrase.

Though the work is structured around the ceaseless development of fragmentary, cell-like themes, Sibelius denies us the certainty of emotional resolution by simply allowing the individual movements to break off in mid-phrase rather than drawing them to a formal close.

Even if you had never watched tap before, his solo would have taught you much: the constant contrast between soft and hard steps; the exciting risks of balance and off-balance in mid-phrase; the wit of bringing his feet together as if squeezing the air between them; sudden explosive outbursts as if not even all his control could keep these back.

His sound would turn leathery; his voice would catch in the throat mid-phrase.

First fledgling blackbirds in mid May.