"My statements about the holy Prophet, peace be upon him, were made in his praise only, and these have now been twisted out of context," he said in measured phrases.
Mr. Vajpayee, who usually speaks in measured phrases, spoke harshly on Feb. 6 at a memorial for Indian soldiers killed last summer in Kashmir, saying that India would strike back if Pakistan hit first.
Reyes, with her wide-eyed gaze, seems wholly supported by the music, whirled into multiple pirouettes on its airy currents, while Hallberg evinces a graver joy, balancing perfectly measured phrasing with unhurried technical precision.
These events gave new meaning to a proclamation made in a pamphlet commissioned by the developers in boom times: "If ever the future can be studied from the past, New Orleans, augmented by its last remaining section, is surely destined for a tomorrow that neither the facile pen of the journalist nor the measured phrases of a lawyer can express.
Unlike the mazurkas of Chopin, who had the four-measure phrase all but written into his DNA, Szymanowski's defy dance symmetry and expand and contract.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's four-measure phrase "Così fan tutte" ("Thus do they all"), in his opera of the same name, is allusive, but it appears as a recurrent motto rather than as a true leitmotif.
Each cadential six-measure phrase is constructed using a change of meter on the fourth measure and uses a I IV V VI chord progression.
The first movement opens peculiarly: the first violin starts on an E, and proceeds to play a four-measure phrase that concludes with a D major chord.
The most important thematic connection is that the closing-phrase opening of the first movement reappears in the finale in a modified form: it no longer stands alone, but as the second part of an eight-measure phrase that forms the movement's secondary theme.
He varies the speed and tempo of his lines like Miles Davis lost inside a solo; one second he's stretching a few syllables through a four-measure phrase, the next he's dividing and cramming syllables into quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes.
