Sentence examples similar to rigid phrasing from inspiring English sources

The variation form was ideal for him at this stage of his career, when his comprehensive mastery of orchestration was still in contrast to his tendency to write his melodies in short, sometimes rigid, phrases.

His heavy-miked pianism is at once metallic sounding, exaggeratedly florid in ornamentation and unbendingly rigid in tone and phrasing.

Experience has confirmed the wisdom of our predecessors in refusing to give a rigid scope to this phrase.

While her phrasing wasn't rigid — she used ample rubato — there was a faceless quality to passages that must sing, like the lyrical second theme of the first movement and the similarly calm central section of the second.

On the other hand, the noun phrase is characterized by a rigid order where the head of the phrase precedes any modifiers and the possessor precedes the possessum.

Figure 2 depicts two prominent examples of phrases, the relatively rigid 'female great call' and the 'male reply'.

It does not demand of states strict observance of rigid categories nor precision of technical phrasing in their exercise of the most basic power of government, that of taxation.

This fluidity did not extend to rhythm: at times the phrasing seemed squarer and more rigid than it needed to be.

Legal scholars have pointed out that the wall-of-separation metaphor may be unhelpfully rigid, and that Thomas Jefferson, who used the phrase in a letter to Connecticut Baptists, may never have imagined it as the last word on the subject.

There may have been a day when I was pastoring full-time that I would have been rigid in to sticking to this particular phrase.

But behind that spontaneity exists a rigid, self-imposed discipline that respects the written musical phrase.