The 10 songs on "The Rhythm of the Saints" seem to be built around resonant but often enigmatic phrases.

"The fullness of time" is a resonant phrase, at once majestic and somehow comforting, yet haunting and mysterious.

Yet, because we know these resonant phrases, we rarely stop to listen and ponder the meaning of each well-crafted line.

But no resonant phrase emerged to define yesterday's tragedy the way Roosevelt's radio-age words defined the World War II attack.

A Google search on the phrase "resonant" or "resonance" is being invoked.

Melia has coined several resonant phrases about democracy support efforts and the parlous state of human rights in the world.

There were authority and pride in it, and a strength that made the resonant phrases echo from the walls of the laboratory, just- as before.

It helped that Ellie's translations rang with the resonant phrases the girl already associated with bedtime fairy tales.

Was I waiting for enlightenment, some resonant phrase that would enter my road-weary, yielding mind and change me forever?

There's not much evidence that this is so; but Bono has helped make it so, in part by repeating such resonant phrases.