In poetry a metaphor may perform varied functions from the mere noting of a likeness to the evocation of a swarm of associations; it may exist as a minor beauty or it may be the central concept and controlling image of the poem.
Musical expression, that element of musical performance which is something more than mere notes.
He grabbed the set with a series of huge forehands, mere notes in a symphony of grunts and groundstrokes.
"I have been to many summits," the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, said afterward, but Lisbon was more "intimate, informal" and "a real exchange about the priorities" instead of mere note-reading — and he gave credit to Mr. Obama.
In fact, after finding that reasons were required in the circumstances, the Court in Baker concluded that the mere notes of an immigration officer were sufficient to fulfil the duty of fairness (para. 44).
But now that downtown has become one of the most desirable areas in the region, deserving of a whole book rather than a mere note, all that looks terribly shortsighted.
The relative success of the "Friedenstag" recording demonstrates something else about Strauss: his operas respond particularly well to vivid, decisive performances, readings that lift the music from mere note-spinning to something more vivid.
The debt owed by Herodotus to Athenian tragedy, with its implacable trajectories from grandeur to abjection, has been much commented on by classicists, some of whom even attribute his evolution from a mere note-taker to a grand moralist of human affairs to the years spent in Athens, when he is said to have been a friend of Sophocles.
In this way, what had initially appeared to be a mere note-to-note plagiarism of Beethoven has eventually given way to a radically different continuation, one which invokes Schubert's own, idiosyncratic compositional style.
A former European Commissioner who is planning to run for the presidency, Emma Bonino (at 58, a mere babe), notes that a stagnant economy increases intolerance towards new entrants.
Another wrote that "the way he simply walked on stage differentiated him from a mere mortal," and noted that the company has not had a "Nordic beauty" of his type since 1979, when Aleksandr Godunov defected while on tour with the Bolshoi in New York.
