Later, working slowly through Noël Coward's waltz "Someday I'll Find You," the band dropped out, except for Mr. Rollins and his percussionist, Kimati Dinizulu, who played quiet phrases against each other on sax and congas; a few of Mr. Rollins's rejoinders were soft, mild and exactly one note long.
The "Ritual Action of the Ancestors" begins quietly, but slowly builds to a series of climaxes before subsiding suddenly into the quiet phrases that began the episode.
Like an overeager golfer, Mr. Watson has a good upswing -- a big, showy crescendo -- without much follow-through; he cuts notes off sharply or lets quieter phrases just peter out.
Say "shizuka ni shiro yo! " for an angry "be quiet!" This phrase is basically an abrupt, rude way to ask for quiet.
Not just her, but her band, and especially its pianist, Aaron Diehl, who connected with the spirit of her phrasing to lead into solos or instrumental arrangements, improvising in quiet, articulated phrases or eccentric waves of chords accenting the weak beats.
Her voice was wounded and tough, and she deployed it shrewdly, starting with quiet, coiled phrases, rising to gritty moans and lashing out in quick staccato outbursts.
The cry-in-your-beer classic "One for My Baby" was confided in quiet, hesitant phrases until a blip of desperation — "this torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might explode" — momentarily poked through the glumness; the guitarist Ed Decker, fleshing out Harold Arlen's melody, stood for Joe the bartender setting up drinks as he witnessed the narrator's distress.
The name "Quaalude" is both a play on "Maalox", another product manufactured by William H Rorer Inc, and a synthesis of the phrase "quiet interlude", a concept so simple and often so out of reach.
At the height of Israel's first Lebanon war in 1982, Amiram Nir, the Israeli officer and journalist who went on to serve as the prime minister's counter-terrorism adviser and later died in a mysterious plane crash, coined the phrase: "Quiet, we're shooting".
One of the more underrated saxophonists in jazz, Mr. Anderson is a master of the subtle gesture, the quiet manipulation of phrasing and tone.
But many of the phrases – quiet crisis, hard-working majority, new bargain, responsibility at the top and bottom – come from the other side of the Atlantic.
