His burnished baritone sounded elegant throughout, with admirable attention given to nuances of phrasing, dynamics and color.
The Fact Checker spent nine years as diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, and such nuances of phrasing are often very important.
We become vividly aware of nuances of phrasing and tone that we would be unlikely to catch if we were watching the same people on television.
At their worst, the instruments nearly destroy expressiveness, stripping away the nuances of phrasing and texture and timbre necessary for sophisticated music making, and replacing them with novelty and variety.
Miss Scotto's sensitivity to nuances of phrasing, her ability to swerve within a single aria from imperious drama to quiet tenderness, her subtle use of dynamics, all combined to make.
Each has at least the flavor of whatever the word-for-word transcript will say, but I may miss nuances of phrasing.
She seemed to be muting her mezzo-soprano in its lower register in particular, not producing a solid column of tone for the sake of tone alone but looking for nuances of phrase and character.
More generally, his performances lacked nuance in matters of phrasing, texture and dynamics.
* I took very seriously the fragmentary set of autobiographical reminiscences that Frieda taped the year before her death, both because the nuances of her phrasing and intonation allowed for a subtle understanding of the significance she accorded particular events, and because every detail that could be independently corroborated checked out.
In fact, if you close your eyes, you could be listening to a much older performer with a sophisticated sense of nuance, phrasing, timbre, and touch.
