Sentence examples for quiet phrases from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Chase and Aykroyd explain that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union turned dozens of American citizens into sleeper agents who would fall into a trance and do the bidding of the KGB upon hearing the phrase, "Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet" – a phrase no one would normally use.

Say "shizuka ni shiro yo! " for an angry "be quiet!" This phrase is basically an abrupt, rude way to ask for quiet.

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.

In Debussy's quartet, which opened the evening with changing cloudscapes of golden music, tinged with a buzz of coffeelike bitterness, Mr. Schranz and Mr. Fejer began the third movement alone in a clear, quiet exchange of phrases.

One of the more underrated saxophonists in jazz, Mr. Anderson is a master of the subtle gesture, the quiet manipulation of phrasing and tone.