The compositions often involved some rhythmic sleight of hand: in "To Eh," a skittering double-time beat over an angular bass line, suggesting two simultaneous tempos; in "To Be," a melody oscillating between eighth notes and eighth-note triplets, giving the impression of a shift in gears.
And give thanks that your heart, still beats 60-90 times per minute and that over a lifetime will beat over 2 trillion times.
Pondering the swiftness of time, beating ourselves up over a sense of inadequacy oftentimes rooted in our own imagination.
Like many moms, I spend more than enough time beating myself up over all the parenting mistakes, big and little, I've made (and will doubtless make in the future).
Don't spend all of your time beating yourself up over what you may have done wrong.
In political terms, this is the first Republican administration in a long while that will have a tough time beating up on Democrats over the budget, in part because it is Republicans who want to spend on the military and on homeland defenses and none of them want to think about rescinding the tax cut.
"In my other life, I was stabbed three times and beat over the head with a pistol.
Notre Dame won by 34-24 over the same Florida State team that Miami had a hard time beating.
In "Cornet Chop Suey," there is Armstrong's extended segment of freestyle improvisational comments over a stop-time beat; his endlessly celebrated solo on "Big Butter and Egg Man" is a liberated gloss on the banal melody, effortlessly jaunty and propulsive.
The USA's Jerome Singleton, who took silver in Beijing, will be challenging again for first place, while the single amputee Arnu Fourie, also a South African, has run impressive times and beat Pistorius over 100m back home in March.
One of the program's coolest features allows for lines to be infused with music, shimmering to the beat over time.
