Thankfully, static equilibrium is one phrase you can't use to describe this one in the slightest.
The women reappear on stage, interspersing short movement phrases with long static pauses.
In their piano music, at least, the two composers often make similar sorts of sounds: plush, static harmonies, rather short melodic phrases that will often be repeated, progressions that turn within circles.
A great deal of the musical phrases, the short static burst of energy from the horn, the instrument of the Ferryman, the wailing of the flute, the Madwoman's alter ego, are derived from the opening plain song, Te lucis ante terminum.
Long periods of static gave way to discrete words, occasional phrases.
These are the words, phrases and meaningful sounds heard through radio static or on other recording devices that count, in the minds of believers, as evidence of ghosts.
The usual stuff of such shows — arguments among team members; a race against the clock — is served up, though here the disagreements are peppered with phrases out of a physics class about kinetic friction, static friction and so on.
She keeps finding more moments of suspension within a role: not static balances (which can be a stale effect) but the unexpected pauses that give new shape to a larger phrase.
