Sentence examples for phrases against from inspiring English sources
The women set spare phrases against these rich, evocative skeins of sound.
Similarly, he often sets his trademark jagged phrases against a peaceful background, as in the cimbalom solo suite "Splinters".
He advanced terse phrases against the beat and played syncopated, delayed-action melodies full of flirtatious suspense.
But Ms. Justice didn't push this evocative construct very far, instead setting unremarkable phrases against a sound installation.
When Mr. Blaauw's Michael played fragments of melodic phrases against those lingering harmonies, the music was like Stockhausen's homage to Ives's "Unanswered Question".
As this performance began, the two soloists, Mr. Kremer and the cellist Giedre Dirvanauskaite, traded eerie, high, elliptical phrases against a hazy backdrop of pungent string harmonies.
Some tracks are spartan duos, with Ms. Merrill's luxe, poised, decorous phrasing against clean piano or guitar accompaniment.
"Dancing is/Everything," insists the band's lead singer, Fredrik Saroea, drawing out the phrase against a glittery disco groove.
The characters of White's original short story retain their wit, quips and turns of phrase, against a live score composed and performed by Zephr Quartet.
Merwin's verse often gives the impression of language scavenged from the elements, its power reckoned only as its meanings assemble, phrase by phrase, against the white of the page.
WASHINGTON — When Merce Cunningham made "Second Hand" in 1970, he was already internationally established as the foremost nonballet creator of dances that were about dancing, that had no messages, that were, in Susan Sontag's phrase, "against interpretation".
