Sentence examples for slow phrase from inspiring English sources

DURHAM, N.C., June 28 — Few things in the performing arts are more marvelously strange than the way the Japanese-American choreographers and performers Eiko and Koma, having started a slow phrase of movement, take it, and with it a whole work, in dramatic directions you could never have seen coming.

Mr. Yahel played straight notes over swung grooves and slow phrases over cruisingly fast bass and drums.

In the last song of the group, with words by Ben Jonson, Ms. Bonney moved serenely and gorgeously through the slow phrases, changing her level of vibrato to change the gilding of her tone.

But at her best, when she tames her talent and sings with directness, bending the daringly slow phrases of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," or turning "Make the Man Love Me" into an unbearably wistful expression of vulnerability, questions of style and taste disappear in the presence of a disarming voice and interpretive vision.

Dressed in his customary gaucho costume with scarf and hat, he stamped out melody statements in hypermasculine roars, then let the band take over; toward the end he reverted to his early 70's style, where the band followed him in bubbling rubato for every slow, anthemic phrase.

"New Edwyn" has dysphasia, meaning he talks in slow, disjointed phrases, with each word seeming to pop into his head as if by surprise.

After that, tenors began replicating the stylish little display that Caruso devised: a quick up-and-down run followed by two slow, sighing phrases.

Watching them at another rehearsal I noted that even a seemingly slow-motion phrase is set to a passage of brisk drumming.

Mr. Loevendie's short piece was based on slow, graceful phrases for the two string instruments, with the piano most often chiming in to decorate.

In his Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1999), the pianist Katie Reimer began with slow arpeggiated phrases over a lilting saxophone line, played with sweet intensity by Michael Couper, before shifting to a jumpier, more aggressive jazz-flavored finale.

Montero's tendency to slow the phrasing, particularly obvious in the opening movement, was the chief culprit, but it added up to a performance that never really took wing.