Periodic structure is most apparent in music that exhibits regular phrases, particularly in homophonic song forms and dances.
As time went on, some also disdained to write the sort of music — with light textures, regular phrasing, a strong beat — that contemporary ballet technique required.
"Some of the phrases that he uses are truly his regular phrases -- 'smoke them out.' Sounds to me like hunting kind of language".
Regular phrases we hear are "That's my bird", "We may have broken up a year ago, but you're still mine", "I don't care if you're single now - you can't get with anyone else", and so on.
If you're unfamiliar with Fantastical, its strengths are a natural language parsing engine that lets you dash off regular phrases like 'meet with Joe at noon on Tuesday at The Crab Shack' and end up with a fully inputted calendar entry without ever typing in any numbers.
The original draft of the proposed bill, HB 193, used the phrase "regular consumers," but the bill's sponsor, Representative Brian Doughty, a Democrat from Salt Lake City, said he deleted the word "regular" in an amendment after other legislators complained that the word was hard to define.
At regular intervals, another phrase will jump in — "Breakfast is served," "From head to toe," "Time to play" — and introduce a series of words and scenes.
The "Emerson" movement of the "Concord" Sonata is divided into "poetry" and "prose" sections, the poetry having a more regular and repetitive phrase structure, the prose open-ended and without frequent bar lines.
And Andrew Sullivan had the common sense to reprint a blog titled, "Crabs in a Barrel"; a phrase regular black folks use to describe this kind of bad behavior.
These enable people speak to it in regular "natural language" phrases to get answers from a vast database of information, or to command it to do things for you along the lines of what you might have in the past ordered or purchased through a web interface, or via an app.
