Most of the time the playing stays almost exaggeratedly soft and loose, a studio-based, silence-valuing, meditative sort of jazz that has long marked his own small-group style, as well as the core identity of ECM records — the label for which Mr. Stanko has been recording on and off since 1976 — and which, in a larger sense, owes its life to Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue".
Brief glimpses of this bitter pill seeped through the Obama campaign, but loose talk of higher taxes was quickly silenced.
Joschka Fischer in Berlin taught me what it took to confront the terrible silence of postwar Germany and prize loose secrets and habits.
As gene silencing becomes looser with age, Dr. Guarente supposes, many genes that should stay turned off in a cell become active, degrading cellular function throughout the body.
At one point they shifted from breakneck bebop into a loose-limbed medium tempo, which then faded into silence.
After Mr. Gingrich lost the Florida primary last month, his explanation was that Mitt Romney, playing fast and loose with "the facts," had stunned Mr. Gingrich into silence during a debate.
"The Silence of the Rational Center" is an altogether looser, more improvisatory performance.
Once the period of silence came to a close, all hell broke loose.
What's more, the decorum at the Fred is loose, fun and unpredictable -- a departure from the churchlike silence required of fans at other tourneys, and a big draw.
The noise during the opening exchanges was immense, but the majority of St James' Park was stunned into silence when Sessegnon picked up Jonas Gutierrez's loose ball, drove at the Newcastle defence and squeezed a shot past Tim Krul.
But its coherence could not be anything but loose because it uses "silence" in at least half a dozen almost unrelated senses.
