Taupin had written a new refrain for a song that Lestat sings after biting his boyhood friend Nicolas.
A musician friend, Nelson Emokpae, wrote a song to me — the refrain was, "Princess, who are you?" I stayed for three months.
A character in "The Da Vinci Code" points out that it is history's winners who get to write history, a refrain echoed by Mr. Brown on his Web site.
A lawyer who takes his responsibilities as a citizen with seriousness, wrote a letter to President Truman respectfully suggesting that the President refrain from seeking to succeed himself.
In the words of James Wood (praised by Malcolm Bradbury as a "tireless interpreter"), it seemed "easier for John Updike to stifle a yawn than to refrain from writing a book".
As for the conclusion, refrain from writing "a repetitive summary of everything the article has just said," she adds.
In connection with his review of Stephen Sondheim's "Finishing the Hat" ("Isn't It Rich?" Oct. 31), Paul Simon, in the Up Front, says that when he wrote the refrain to "Bridge Over Troubled Water" — "Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down" — he had "no idea where those words and melody came from".
The pity is that so many people wrote the refrain off as hyperbole or, worse, as nothing much more than a cynical attempt to talk up the danger from terrorism and cast George Bush as a permanent wartime president so that he could maintain a political advantage at home.Bali has at a stroke reversed this complaint.
Tillman also wrote the refrain, the first verse, and the melody of "Hold Up," one of the big singles from "Lemonade".
The past week, I've written a number of posts with the same basic refrain: the carriers suck.
