And the minor notes really hit the spot.
A piano melody, minor notes, slow, patient brushes on the drums.
The details of human behavior — minor notes of pomposity, say, in apparently self-effacing speech — make her laugh, and she knows how to introduce those notes into sketches.
"Girl," I realized, has a Joe Jackson-ish mood: the minor notes, the regret, the world-weary young-Lennon bitterness, the sighing that comes out as an inhaled hiss.
But for those listening for shifts, for the minor notes that rise even as the major ones pound out the familiar theme, there have been hints of a wavering certainty.
There were minor notes of discordance, but they were hardly worth my attention amid the wardrobes that open into a world of eternal winter or the boy whose shadow runs away from him.
The book's gamble is that its panoply of fractured lives, mundane problems and simmering hopes will, when sprinkled with fairy dust, give rise to intersecting moments of transcendence, that its orchestra of minor notes will crescendo and peak.
"Manufacturers started the year on a minor note, the January HSBC Russia Manufacturing PMI survey found.
Her piece sets a minor note that plays throughout the room.
Yet in "Mongo: Adventures in Trash," dementia on the scale, say, of the Collyer brothers, is only a minor note.
