Sentence examples for sparse phrases from inspiring English sources

In a few sparse phrases, Bush has effectively conveyed that he is one of you, he shares your values, and he is humbly worthy of your vote.

If when we first met the talk was slow, the sparse phrases tinged with regret, now, after the game, an unexpected confessional, in Jagr's own version of English, heavy on Slavic sibilants and short on definite articles, comes cascading forth.

On "The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco," a recording he made with nine M'Alem, arranged by his friend Abdella El-Gourd, a master hag'houge player, Mr. Weston appears on only one song, "Chalabati," and he plays sparse phrases that blend subtly into the overall sound.

For the next two hours, we conversed the sparse phrases of Tibetan I'd picked up, her broken English, and through photographs.

Spatial exploration through the repetition of movements and patterns factors into her sparse phrases, as does a general abstract approach to the language of dance.

I like "controversial director of football" as a description, it being one of those sparse pieces of phrasing into which whole volumes of meaning have been telescoped.

At times, patterns of sparse, descending two-note piano phrases recall Debussy's "Études"; we seem close to the flapping of wings; an overlap of different instruments suggests not musical harmony but a soundscape of wide multiplicity.

"Skrt" lurches along to a minimalist, bottom-heavy beat, and Octave is sparse and repetitive with his phrasing.

The Cage "Four Walls" music is sparse and lucid, seemingly built of short phrases and reiterations, often tracing single-note phrases in the right hand that are like fragments of melody.

Mr. Potter gave that one an unaccompanied tenor prelude in the spirit of Michael Brecker, starting sparse and gradually constructing a complex edifice, phrase by knotty phrase.

The Israeli DJ and Girl Scout label boss repeats the phrase "beautiful memory" over a sparse scaffolding of techno thuds and clicks, her eerie refrain filling the blank space like a hypnotic chant.