Sentence examples for uneven phrasing from inspiring English sources

But the old sense of swing never left, and it later became abundantly clear again, whether he was playing an original sketch built on uneven phrasing with gaps of silence or a root text of jazz like "Body and Soul".

At the opening night of "Semiramide," she was ill at ease in her early scenes: her showpiece aria, "Bel raggio lusinghier," suffered from uneven phrasing, intrusive vibrato, and a constricted high E.

The musical transitions are subtle, and Stein's uneven phrase lengths deftly handled.

The band was graceful in ballads, scrappy and intense in collective improvisations, deft with uneven phrases, smart about repertory.

The uneven phrase lengths engage the ear, and the composer's ability to manage long lyrical lines with grace is considerable.

He is often criticized for his uneven tone, choppy phrasing and shaky technique, and those defects were noticeable on Friday.

By comparison, the tenor Marcelo Álvarez often sounded underpowered and had an off night over all, starting on shaky ground with an uneven and choppily phrased rendition of "Celeste Aida".

She makes resplendent shapes and strong lines, but her musical phrasing is uneven.

He tended to distort phrases, producing choppy, uneven lines.

But his performance as Iago was bland and vocally uneven, with dicey pitch, patchy phrases in the low register and scant intensity.

The pieces were uneven, sometimes losing a logic or feeling of inevitability in a choreographic phrase.