Sentence examples for subtle phrasing from inspiring English sources

But they were deftly negotiating the tune's tricky syncopations and subtle phrasing.

Ms. Kent's willful jumps and subtle phrasing were a pleasure, as were Mr. Malakhov's airy leaps and skimming traveling brisées.

And in Tchaikovsky's "None but the Lonely Heart," through precise diction and subtle phrasing, she sang with intense emotion without ever distorting the musical line.

Cope's blank, skittering gaze and subtle phrasing present Rudolf as a succession of savage, manic and needy states, circling around a dead centre.

His guitar is joined by a powerful tenor voice that is capable of everything from precise subtle phrasing to a yodel reminiscent of a coyote's mournful howl.

Delois Barrett Campbell, whose subtle phrasing and silvery soprano helped define the sound of the Barrett Sisters, a prominent Chicago gospel trio featured in the 1982 documentary "Say Amen, Somebody," died on Tuesday in Chicago.

The promise of his books is that they detour around emasculated, fussy artistry — "We're all tired of the turned subtle phrase and the riddle in the middle of the line," he declared to another interviewer — and plunge deep into life itself.

Again, the acoustics of Synod House let every subtle phrase Davies and Stone shared floated gently but defiantly around the wooden room.

The performers' subtle theatrical phrasing helped.

Mr. Acharya's refined sculptural firmness, complex gestural eloquence, subtle musical phrasing and articulate grace are enough to extend most ideas of masculinity.

Her version of "Lover Man," treated as an extended sigh of dreamy longing propelled by subtle jazz phrasing, balanced tenderness and sensuality in a rendition that challenged Billie Holiday's matchless original in beauty and honesty.