And the repetitiveness of consuming a purely liquid diet also tied in fittingly with the song's loops and recurring beats.
Mr. Heaney's translation beats with a recurring pulse, from homely and concrete to elevated and back again.
In "Fratres" Mr. Taylor constructs nine solos that mirror the music, which shifts between a recurring percussive beat and shimmering strings.
In metrically organized rhythm, recurring patterns of accented and unaccented "beats" furnish a durational substructure that necessarily affects all the other elements of composition, including the nature of melody, harmony, and texture.
The book is a hymn to the generative power of fantasy, a celebration of the sheer inventive pleasure of spinning an ordinary event into "a story that no one can beat," the recurring phrase that was the book's original title.
In the Allegro of his opening sonata, the 48th, in C, he pushes the beat with the recurring triplet quavers, using them as a kind of motor to lend an edge of urgency to the joviality.
But if U2's long game is setting up the marketing for an imminent tour, Apple's long game is nudging consumers away from sporadic track purchasing before it dies completely and settling them into nice recurring monthly subscription payments on Beats Music.
An iconic black-and-white photograph of Kate in an oversized T-shirt that reads "I Beat Obesity" is a recurring theme, perfectly capturing the ethos of the thinspo community.
Turner's recurring piano motif anchors the track, while disembodied beats echo around.
Amy Chozick, who has been on the Clinton beat for The New York Times since the summer of 2013, launched a recurring post last week featuring questions the Times would've asked the candidate "had we had the opportunity".
