After that, Obama, instead of issuing a statement himself, said nothing.
Utley didn't even think about going to the mound, following baseball's eye-for-an-eye code instead of making a statement.
"Instead of issuing a statement, you now issue a letter.
You try to speak firmly but find yourself asking a question instead of making a statement.
In the key scene in Megillas Esther, Mordechai zigs when he seemingly should have zagged, asking Esther a question instead of making a statement.
Keep the setting neutral and focus on serving your customers instead of making a statement.
Instead of a tight statement, a closed system, you have a broad sense of a certain trend in art: counterindividualistic, countersubjective, counter-virtuosic; in short, counter-Chelsea 2005.
But instead of a clear statement of condemnation, politicians will discuss an opaque, tortuously-worded sentence, which aims to be unclear enough to keep everyone happy - with the sort of convoluted phrasing that the German language is so good at.
In other words, it's the Charlottesville response that many people wish Trump had made immediately, instead of a bizarre statement about violence on "many sides" that was condemned by Republicans and Democrats alike.
But Bernstein and his players wring a feverish intensity from every note, and they turn that opening idea into a catalogue of trauma instead of a single musical statement – and so it goes on, throughout the movement.
