Most pianists would do the opposite: take an extra moment to let a phrase sink in with a slight dramatic pause before moving to the next.
He imagines them turning on the TV and pointing him out to their friends: "There's my dad!" Bobbie has a nearly opposite take.
The secret, I discovered, is to do the very opposite: take all the focus and attention away from what your kids are and aren't eating.
She had exactly the opposite take — for her, the chapter was a testament to the virtue of doubt, not certainty: Asked to name the book that had made the biggest impact on her, she singled out "The Brothers Karamazov".
The problem is that Mr. Graham is part of an influential bipartisan group in the Senate that would do just the opposite: take the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country and, after what he calls a "long" and "challenging" path, make them legal.
The opposite take — usually articulated by people who never for a moment tried to imagine themselves black and eighteen on an overwhelmingly white campus — took the complaints and demands of college students as the whining of overly tender minds and/or the growls of young totalitarians.
