Writing on deadline, Donovan and I clashed frequently: I described our sources as "credible"; he vetoed that phrasing, saying that it suggested The Star was taking their side.
From the first moment to the last, Kirkland is absolutely in control, technically speaking, and so free to shape her musical phrasing as she chooses.
Rather than the negative phrasing "do you think this person has been raped?", the question was framed positively: "do you think consent was sought and granted here?" If we had entered the workshop looking for a strict definition of consent that we could apply to our lives, we found no such thing.
"I don't know… 'Get out, you stupid girl'?" she says, phrasing it as a question.
But much hinges on the exact phrasing and whether they would satisfy the Rev Ian Paisley, the DUP's hardline leader.
It was great to see he still has his phrasing and his timing.
But retailers fret that the opaque phrasing of the new law could mean wholesalers are affected as well; that would wipe out more than half of the country's distribution chain.
His comment is made, specifically, in the context of the phrasing of the Fed's statement.
You just keep thinking: did Lucky Luciano, or any other hood, give Sinatra the voice, the musical taste, the genius for phrasing that turned a three-minute pop song into a story of love, loss, weariness, joy?In other words, if Mozart did it under the table with girls at court, does it matter?
But when the Brandenburg Consort, for example, using authentic instruments, accompanied the BBC Singers in choral works by Purcell and Handel, many details of phrasing were virtually inaudible.
That annoys those who point to special phrasing that Britain secured in the original text, telling the European Court to pay due regard to a series of parallel "declarations" stating that the charter cannot overturn such things as national labour laws.Among the ratifiers, the biggest complaint is that Britain itself drafted this special phrasing, and yet is now coming back for more.
