"intricate phrasing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to describe a sentence or passage that is complex, detailed, or carefully worded. Example: The author's use of intricate phrasing in describing the character's emotional turmoil added depth and nuance to the story.
His language mirrors this relationship; it has a plain-spoken sweep with, every so often, beautiful, intricate phrasing appearing on the horizon.
PACO PEÑA FLAMENCO COMPANY The great Andalusian guitar virtuoso brings his small company of topnotch singers, musicians, and dancers to Town Hall for a show — "A Compás," or "To the Rhythm" — that focusses on the rhythmic patterns and textures of flamenco, from the soniquete of the dancers' feet to the intricate phrasing of the castanets.
But the most expressive choreography was reserved for the lead actors, including Ms. Knightley and Mr. Taylor-Johnson, who perform intricate phrases throughout.
As his most intricate phrases skitter over the keyboard, he barely seems to depress the keys, yet each note is cleanly articulated.
But give him a musical challenge or an intricate dance phrase and he becomes adult, stimulated.
In the high-ceilinged parish hall of a Brooklyn church on a warm August afternoon, nine members of Gallim Dance worked intensely, mostly alone or in pairs, exploring intricate movement phrases as Louis Armstrong's "Kiss to Build a Dream On" played over and over.
But as his remark indicates, though his work appears blithely and uninhibitedly dancey, it is constructed from an intricate assemblage of phrasing and detail.
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.
He was one of the few modern-jazz clarinetists, and his technical mastery made him the first to present the intricate rhythms and broken phrasing of bebop on his instrument.
The arrangements are quite intricate.
Other reviews have compared his intensely layered phrases and intricate rhythms to those of raga, the centuries-old music of the American-reared Mr. Mahanthappa's ancestral India.
