The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music.
I. Has the band trademarked its name, logo, catch-phrases, distinctive makeup designs, overall appearance, or other identifiers?
Eight variations, built around three short phrases with distinctive elements, lead to an enigmatic coda.
The great composers absorbed the music that had gone before them and their brains "recombined" melodies and phrases in distinctive, sometimes traceable, ways.
Yet through his poetic mastery the spaciousness and nobility of his best verse, its classical aptness of phrase, its distinctive harmony he conveyed to sympathetic readers a feeling of implicit reassurance, even serenity.
Dr. Conrad noted that Mozart used distinctive phrases that are fairly short, often only four or even two measures long, and then repeated these phrases to build larger sections.
In the screenplay, all of King's fabulously distinctive phrases had to be unpicked and convincingly respun.
Foster, though, was a professor of literature, not a linguist; he was not trained to use the forensic methods that Shuy had mastered, such as listening for unconscious semantic patterns and looking for distinctive phrases or unusual colloquialisms.
In particular, they looked for two distinctive phrases that emerged at specific times: "Comet Ison" (the name of a comet discovered in September 2012) and "Pope Francis" (the name taken by Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he became pope in March 2013).
Turpin has spent untold hours poring over journals, letters, and other ephemera in the Walt Whitman Archive, noticing the poet's distinctive phrases and cadences; that night, he was searching through old newspapers, hoping to find echoes of that prose.
Brief, abrupt, and detached rhythmic cells are joined into rhythmic phrases with a distinctive, often jerky texture.
