Word: rhythmical
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...sloughing over the more lyrical passages. The second theme of the opening movement, particularly, with its appealing soulfulness, had a tender, longing quality without being sentimental. One could have wished for just a little less deliberateness in the second movement, a little more flash in the finals, and greater rhythmic definition throughout; but these are minor considerations in the light of a competent and careful performance...
...blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded at the memorable Carnegie Hall Christmas concert with Pete Seeger...
...high comedy, made an admirable Oedipus, but he could not plumb the depths of his final scene. Sydney Sturgess was badly miscast as Jocasta; but Ellis Rabb acted as cathartic a Tiresias as one is ever likely to see. The corporate delivery of the Chorus of Elders lacked rhythmic precision...
...philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...
...increasing specialization, many U.S. companies dream of a Renaissance-type man, skilled and versatile, who can command all the specialties in a smooth, rhythmic whole...