Frottola texts were usually of limited literary value, typically consisting of several six-line verses, each followed by a four-line refrain, using the same music.
But a few minutes later, she's tapping out something different on the keyboard, then he belts out a few verses before throwing it back to her: "Now I want you to find a one-line refrain".
Meanwhile, on the London-Brighton line, the refrain from public-address announcements was "full and standing".
When they sing the chorus's single line the refrain comes back from the crowd, as inevitable as the tides: "No way, get fucked, fuck off!" But insanity will have the last say.
Finally comes the spiritual "bottom line" question: do people who refrain from making love and raising children become better people who are closer to God than they otherwise would be?
Finally, an even broader account extends the scope of public reason to the whole of social morality, that is, "the set of social-moral rules that require or prohibit action, and so ground moral imperatives that we direct to each other to engage in, or refrain from, certain lines of conduct" (Gaus 2011, 2).
Running to 18 short lines, the refrain of "Katyusha, Katyusha" echoes through the poem, which begins: "Katyusha, Katyusha, / Arrow of fire: / Kingdom Come, is it / Below or above?" "I've basically adapted the name of a missile which sounds like a diminutive in Russian, a child's name," said O'Brien, who is also the only poet to have won the Forward prize three times.
The "socialist" refrain has been a reliable line of attack for some of Obama's most fervent conservative critics.
Prior perceptions about the unpredictability of donor funding influenced the decision of some managers to refrain from using other budget lines and delay implementation.
At this point, I will refrain from commenting on the seriousness of this line of argument.
But since there is insufficient evidence for our hypotheses, we refrain from further speculation along these lines.
