Sentence examples for single phrases from inspiring English sources

Monk's insistent, almost manic worrying at single phrases is replaced by sudden surprises and changes of direction.

His patience - during interminable repetitions of single phrases in Bach, Schumann or Ravel - was as remarkable as his insights were profound.

He treats bass lines or single phrases as clues and implications, toying on the spot with tempo, crosscurrents, inflection and attack; anything can be up for grabs, yet the composition retains an identity.

She composes in the way she always has, starting with single phrases or melodies, recording them, and passing them on to someone else to add more layers, her bass player, or her keyboard player, before working on them some more, like a painter returning constantly to a canvas.

A finalist for the National Book Award for his collection of stories, "Lost in the City," he constructs "The Known World" as a clockwork mechanism of stories within stories, some appearing as single phrases in a sentence, others spanning the whole book.

A single phrase captures mood or emotion.

I didn't make up a single phrase".

The essence of the I.T.C. work is summed up in a single phrase: "Not Charity.

I know of no other choreographer who packs more steps into a single phrase.

HP If a night can be defined in a single phrase, this one takes some beating.

A single phrase from his speech grabbed headlines the next day: "I love business".