What all this means is not always clear, although occasional phrases embedded in the images create a certain drama.

Audio accompanying several works is so low that you have to stand close to catch an occasional muttered phrase.

Along the way, you peck out the occasional goofy phrase like "Get paid in meatballs."

There's the occasional phrase in the orchestra where it would be nice if the player had a sense of jazz phrasing.

He spoke his own kind of English with an occasional phrase borrowed from other languages.

They stood mute among us when we said the occasional phrase in French.

She could even read, by the dimming light, an occasional phrase.

Even Ramirez could pick out the occasional discordant phrase.

An occasional phrase, a glance.clues that were not at all tangled.

In others, a word or an occasional phrase differed from one counterpart to the other.