Shadwick describes Hendrix's guitar solos as "fluently spectacular, stringing long, arching phrases together".
The style and iconography of punk, like that of other "spectacular subcultures" (to use the phrase Dick Hebdige coined in "Subculture: The Meaning of Style"), arguably did more than music — let alone ideas — to fulfill one of the crucial functions of any underground: group identity.
The spectacular handbrake turns and top-spin returns of phrase elicit "gasps of continually renewed surprise".
Brian McKnight is a spectacular pop-soul singer, pouring melismas into every phrase and making every elaborate turn sound like an added supplication.
That program would close out with an image of various atheletes including one skier having a spectacular crash and in the background, the famous phrase "The thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat".
They speak in hyperbole, using phrases like "hitting a home run" and "a spectacular addition to the therapeutic armamentarium".
She makes a big, vivid sound; has fine control of Beethoven's spectacular virtuoso effects; and is good at patiently building climaxes over long stretches of phrase.
The company has sent an e-mail with the phrase that pays: "There will be several world exclusive announcements at the Star Wars Spectacular keynote".
The fact that her supporters sided with Obama is not particularly spectacular considering the ideological similarities between the two-clearly evidenced by the overly-used "Obama's third term" phrase.
Even then, since all the spectacular pomp of the funeral seemed designed to propagate the Thatcher myth, I was reminded of an even more pungent phrase from Eliot's Four Quartets: "human kind cannot bear very much reality".
