Instead, foreign-language cinema is often reflexively invoked as the primary influence, which partly speaks to anxieties and prejudices about no-nothing Americans learning culture from Europeans.
There are downsides to being linked with a legend, and Mr. Biskind ends his chapter on "Easy Rider" with the Manson Family murders, a queasy linkage that partly speaks to Mr. Hopper's mushrooming profile as a Hollywood madman.
Partly sung, partly spoken according to the conventions of the Opéra-Comique, Carmen often relies on its dialogue to advance the drama, particularly when the chorus is absent.
The text to the second movement, "They Are Far Out," is partly spoken, and the effect, combined with the softly astringent atonality, is unsettling.
It is also a song made for Ms. Carroll's sophisticated parlando style, in which lyrics are partly spoken and the melody glossed to create a poetic musical recitation.
And yet, a close look at the transcript, which includes an analogy between the euro zone and a bumblebee, suggests that he was at least partly speaking off the cuff.
In his interpretation of that diva war horse "Losing My Mind," which invites every shade of high drama, this torch song becomes the partly spoken monologue of a man futilely trying to shake off a nagging obsession.
The band's new album, "False Priest," covers similar ground, with predictably unpredictable results; standouts include "Enemy Gene," with guest vocalist Janelle Monae, and the partly spoken "Our Riotous Defects".
Ms Yousif's crime is a series of alleged Facebook posts, partly speaking out against the Formula One Grand Prix.
Nevertheless, it is encouraging that consistent relationships between GIGT subgroups and glycemia, insulin sensitivity, and β-cell function were readily apparent both in pregnancy and at 3 months postpartum, despite the sample size (partly speaking to the strength of these associations).
However, it sheds no light on why cosmopolitan Switzerland (which is only partly French speaking) and Germany are just behind the Balkan pair.
