The vocal writing in "You Are" explores four aphoristic texts -- two from rabbinical writings, one from Psalm 16 and one from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein -- by continually recasting the phrasing or emphases.
When the movie ran again last year, I had already changed my mind about it and recast the phrase, but the damage had been done, the accusation of cynical calculation made.
Or as we might recast the phrase consumer sovereignty, you'd better do what your customers want or you're not going to have any customers.
Roughly phrased, but right.
Although some of Brahms's long string lines were played with an ardent Romantic sweep, others were recast with a drier, nonlegato phrasing that seemed novel but not entirely persuasive.
Each song yielded useful quirks: a crablike phrase to recast in pinging overtones, a whole-tone riff to work into a chant.
"I have my skirt on straight and I accept my responsibilities," she told the press, recasting a classic Mexican phrase defining macho men as having their pants on straight.
Decades after the literary slap heard around Black America, to be female, beyond belief and Black (to recast Hansberry's iconic phrase) is still the ultimate betrayal of the race.
Kipling (who himself lifted the phrase "stranger shores" from Chapman's translation of Homer) recasts Ulysses as the prototypical colonialist rather than a man who simply wants to get back home.
More recently "Pieces of Intelligence: the Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld", by Hart Seely, mockingly recasts in blank verse some of the defence secretary's turns of phrase.Now the Plain English Campaign, a British group that lobbies for clearer use of language, has given Mr Rumsfeld the "Foot in Mouth Award" for the most baffling comment by a public figure.
Recasting the story of recasts.
