When Mr. McGovern's Didi speaks Beckett's more mournful phrases, they seem to be italicized because the feeling that underlies them is not an element integrated into the whole of the production, but a spice occasionally sprinkled on top.
Mr. Sklamberg sang a mournful, repeating phrase as the group chanted "Ilse, Ilse Koch" to a simple drumbeat.
With only a cursory glance at McDonald's first-quarter results, one might mutter that mournful Spanish phrase: "How sad".
Wearing the black dress and black shawl of classic fado performers, she was imperiously mournful, declaiming each phrase as a freshly felt lament.
He was followed by the elders: Rodrigo, singing in a weathered voice about fado's history, and Beatriz da Concei?. Wearing the black dress and black shawl of classic fado performers, she was imperiously mournful, declaiming each phrase as a freshly felt lament.
In this extremely introspective piece to mournful recorded piano phrases by Peter Garland, a pair of high-heeled shoes was moved about the space, and dancers kept approaching microphones.
The product of a creative family and a popular music course at London's Goldsmiths College, Blake is a mournful singer whose phrasing and delivery betray a youth spent listening to soul and R&B (and, in more recent times, Bon Iver and Antony Hegarty).
The Polish jazz trumpeter TOMASZ STANKO is often said to have a cinematic style, partly because of his penchant for shadowy phrasing and mournful, ethereal melodies, and partly because he has worked extensively in film for at least 45 years, beginning with formative apprenticeship with the pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda.
It is a mournful song whose sobbing phrases would be redolent of regret even in the most cheerful of places.
