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Example sentences for "phrasing"

Lexicographically close words:
phou; phrase; phrased; phraseology; phrases; phratria; phratries; phratry; phrenic; phrenological
  1. Although Grundtvig was still quite unknown except for a few articles in a current magazine, there was something about him, an originality of view, an arresting way of phrasing his thoughts, a quiet sense of humor, that commanded attention.

  2. Instead of endeavoring to transfer the metre, phrasing and sentiment of the original text, he frequently adopts only a single thought or a general idea from its content, and expresses this in his own language and form.

  3. Probably owing to the less precise phrasing of his Persian archetype, Erskine here has reversed the statement, made in the Turki, that Babur slept in the Asaish (not the Farmaish).

  4. And there was Violet herself in the phrasing of it, though she was brief and reserved.

  5. Perhaps I may be phrasing the words awkwardly, but you look ten years younger this morning, Miss L'Estrange.

  6. XV and through XVI and XVII are a number of those personal passages, which I have postponed to a subsequent lecture upon Jeremiah’s spiritual struggles,(438) and also several passages which by outlook and phrasing belong to a later age.

  7. Finally, all the phrasing of the New Covenant is in harmony with the rest of the Prophet’s teaching.

  8. But this answer is too full of deuteronomic phrasing for the whole of it to be the Prophet’s; if any of it is genuine this can only be part of the obviously expanded opening, 21, 22a.

  9. Every note and finger must be in place, every mark of phrasing obeyed; but during practise hours you need not give the piece all its dashing vigor and bravura at every repetition.

  10. The modern pianist is often lacking in two important essentials--phrasing and shading.

  11. An artist should so thoroughly make his own the composition which he plays, and be so deeply imbued with its spirit, that he will know the phrasing and dynamics which best express the meaning of the piece.

  12. I knew my own tempo exactly and showed her that while it did not differ so greatly from hers, yet my playing sounded slower because notes and phrasing were all clear, and everything rightly balanced.

  13. The author deplores the misuse of the damper pedal, which can be made to ruin all the care and effort bestowed on phrasing and tonal effects by the fingers.

  14. Clearness of touch, exactness in phrasing and fingering were the first requirements; the delivery of the composer's idea must be just as he had indicated it--no liberties with the text were ever permitted.

  15. With good players again the true tempo induces correct phrasing and expression, and conversely, with a conductor, the idea of appropriate phrasing and expression will induce the conception of the true tempo.

  16. With sharp rising inflections, with staccato phrasing and with fierce passionate intonation, the Sioux wrung the hearts of his hearers.

  17. Her soft Highland accent and the quaint Highland phrasing seemed to reach a soft spot in the little Scot.

  18. There is no felicitous phrasing in the references to nature, but the fact remains that Galesia found in nature a satisfaction and sometimes an exaltation quite foreign to the heroines of her time.

  19. I have forgotten how I put the thing, but in some boyish phrasing or other I must have thrown out the idea that thought is free and beliefs uncontrollable.

  20. The arrested habit of phrasing one's thoughts for a hearer who will listen in peace no more!

  21. In some summary phrasing I must have set out the gist of this.

  22. Next read the poem aloud, giving the voice character appropriate to its sentiment, phrasing it intelligibly, observing the emotional portent, and coloring it accordingly.

  23. When this idea had firmly grasped the human mind, the modern age had come indeed, and progress was its distinctive category of understanding and its exhilarating phrasing of human hope.

  24. The development of this apocalyptic phrasing of hope has been traced too often to require long rehearsal here.

  25. The art of appropriate phrasing was also being studied, while practical musicians were bowing to the necessity of leaving old stereotyped forms for those having more emotional qualities.

  26. Illustration] A main difference between Browning and Tennyson was here correctly set forth, but the phrasing was in questionable taste.

  27. The higher emotions have a phrasing of their own; they fall naturally--whether as the result of instinct or of habit need not here be considered--into fitting forms.

  28. Poetry is not common thought expressed in an uncommon manner; it is not an artificial phrasing of even the higher emotions.

  29. When his first aria had been reached he sang it off with perfect phrasing and feeling, but exactly note for note as written.

  30. His voice had gone, but he would employ its beaux restes to impart an idea for the proper emission of a note or phrasing of a passage.

  31. Your father and I were both hoping you would take kindly to the shop and try to repay us for all the--" Mrs. Baines was unfortunate in her phrasing that morning.

  32. And not only the phrasing of the question, but the assured tone in which it was uttered, showed that Laurence meant to be the familiar of Sophia.

  33. But he was a patient man, and accustomed now to the heterogeneous phrasing of the Western border.

  34. His brows drew in slightly with the mental effort of suitably phrasing thoughts which he had never before put into speech.

  35. I was unable to prevent it, is a better way of phrasing it," I replied, still gently.

  36. Such phrasing was utterly unlike Marston, but I had seen their friendship in all the glory of its intensity, and I knew no sacrifice would have been too great.

  37. Hear thou aright, while I aright reverse The order of the phrasing of that spell.

  38. More deeply touched the next minute, he felt in her voice, in her look, in her phrasing of speech, an older, much older daughter than the Fredi whom he had conducted to Moorsedge.

  39. She was mentally phrasing before she said: 'Absence.

  40. He is a master of phrasing and of all beauties of detail, has a wonderfully perfect technique, but that quality which places him at the head of all rivals is his musical feeling, his temperament.

  41. And all this he accomplished without losing anything of the elegance of his phrasing or of the infinite charm of his tone.

  42. Behind the neat phrasing of the professional trafficker in emotions, Eric felt that she was trying to weary him of their forty-eight hours' engagement.

  43. From her tone and phrasing Eric knew that he had failed.

  44. But the problem really consists in concealing the system beneath the melody and rhythm, and in causing the necessary coincidence of the phrasing to appear a natural and unstudied one, dependent on the individual character of each dance.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrasing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adaptation; arrangement; composition; dialect; diction; expression; formulation; grammar; harmonization; idiom; instrumentation; intonation; language; locution; modulation; orchestration; parlance; phrase; phraseology; phrasing; preparation; print; resolution; rhetoric; setting; solution; speech; style; suspension; talk; terminology; tone; transcription; usage; verbiage; wording