Mr. D'Angelo can do his version of pretty playing: nubby, sharp phrases on alto saxophone or bass clarinet that balloon into long and hopeful expressions.
Ashanti, whose tangy voice supplied hooks for hip-hop songs before she made her own album, sang about devoted love in short, sharp phrases that the whole crowd could join.
Even his darker moments are suffused with the inherent comedy of being human and a distinctive physical style that smoothly feeds gesture and sudden, sharp phrases into larger movement structures.
One more round of revisions, with sharper phrasing, clearer narrative and more thorough analysis, and Pfaelzer could have sealed off the reader's route of emotional escape.
Or is it, as this week's winner has it, a kind of paradise of paradox: or, in the better, sharper phrase of @SamTheBearJew, "Logorrhea, in brief".
And it features a lightning-sharp phrase — spoken, tellingly, not by Gaspard himself but by the perspicacious, intellectual Margot — that encapsulates, in two words, Rohmer's character, his career, and his lifelong array of cinematic protagonists.
Belfast newspapers have reported that Mr. McGuinness and Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, settled on a sharper phrase about the police officer's killing after their more reserved condemnation of the soldiers' slayings.
Jaimie Tapper delivered sharp articulate phrasing in the Pas de Trois.
The five dancers (one male) get precise, sharp little phrases and slouchy pockets of stillness.
Mr. Pollini's magnified dynamic contrasts, driven tempos and sharp-edged phrasing make for stormy, high-drama readings that point the way toward full-fledged Romanticism.
