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Phrasing

noun

The grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line.

The manner in which something is expressed in words. Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, verbiage, wording.

Phrase

verb

(past & past part. phrased; pres. part. phrasing)

Put into words or an expression. Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word.

Divide, combine, or mark into phrases.

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"Phrasing" Quotes from Famous Books

... realized that he was deeply and passionately in love. He could think of nothing else—he did not wish to think of anything else. Her face came between him and his book, her voice loitered in his ears, her precise, pretty phrasing, the laughter that ...

— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... observation of her companions. She was not entirely at ease; self-consciousness appeared in a furtive change of attitude from time to time; it might have been remarked, too, that she kept a guard upon her phrasing and even her pronunciation, emphasising certain words with a sort of academic pedantry. Perhaps it was this which caused Lady Ogram to ask at length whether she still worked ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... enough now, young man," said Gramps, but he made the change. And, from there, he went without a misstep through the phrasing of the disinheritance, causes for which were disrespectfulness ...

— The Big Trip Up Yonder • Kurt Vonnegut

... of voice and skill and feeling which weave an enchanted spell. Those who have known the troubadour Riccardo have doubtless heard what are called greater voices, artists who hold for a triumphant moment the hazardous peak of the high C, whose roulades and phrasing are exquisite and admirable. But the singer whom they wish to hear, whose singing is a part of life, like the beauty of flowers and the dawn, is the singing of the troubadour Riccardo. It is so with Cecilia's playing, and it is impossible to suppose ...

— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis

... close in his rear—and began phrasing in German to these poor souls the words of the soldiers, leaving out the blasphemies with which they were laden. How much he had known before I cannot guess, but the confidence with which he told them that the French ...

— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

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