Metrically

Naming a town "Haag" would just be odd, as it needs an article (compare a town named "Hedge" in English speaking countries) and the single syllable is metrically awkward as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her readings of such seldom-heard jewels as "His Eyes, Her Eyes," "In Another World" and the metrically intricate "I Was Born in Love with You" make the album a worthy addition to the short list of first-class American stylists including Sarah Vaughan and Jack Jones , who have collaborated with Mr. Legrand through the years. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

And fais angle-of-ascent gauge and fuel cutoff device are calibrated metrically. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for the metrical arrangement (which is "arbitrarily produced by the imagination"), it seeks as rhythmical sound to prolong "the duration of the effect" of impressions received both from within and without as they modify each other as a way of also prolonging "a consciousness of the cause," sensation as impressions becoming, both as metaphors and linguistic sounds metrically arranged, their conversion into thought as the poet's consciousness of them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whose idea — that such words as these are better spoken, better understood, better appreciated, when rendered metrically in forced marches with the congregation? ❋ John (2008)

It is all immediated by Edgar's fiction for his blind father, "Hark, do you hear the sea"? — a solicitation that falters metrically when Gloucester completes the line "No, truly" (4.6.4), a foot short and in a weak rhyme with sea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A primer of this recreation, playing on poetic infrastructure, is Southey's jeu d'esprit, "The Cataract of Lodore," a poem shaped, phonically and metrically, into a cascade of sounds that not only coincide with lexical sense but drive it as a primary expressive force: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Posts like this--literate, funny, and verging on metrically correct--are why I don't just read Snob; I also read the commenters! ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

The fifteeners of Greek folk poetry are really no different metrically from fourteeners in English, but with feminine endings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Another key question is how success is measured – tangibly, metrically, from a distance, not emotionally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, the computer screen before me is near as it is that towards which I am concernfully directed, while the desk upon which the screen sits is far despite being metrically closer as it recedes into the background of concernful engagements. ❋ Enowning (2009)

I can't picture Ali's rhymed, metrically-symmetrical couplets hitting the melancholy yearning that Thompson strikes in his looser renditions--and longing is, after all, the ghazal's raison d'etre, no? ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

He's also a stickler for metrically-consistent couplets, so that each couplet-unit, with rhyme and "chorus," becomes a box that the poet has to fight her way out of. ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

Arabic, on the other hand, the answer to the question, what is metrically long or short, is exceedingly simple, and flows with stringent cogency from the nature of the Arabic Alphabet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Yiddish texts or at least most of them had been published separately and attracted Shostakovich's attention; as I recall, he specifically asked for a Russian translation that would be metrically identical to the original, so the songs could be performed in either language without awkward melismas or other distortions of declamation. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2008)

Uttered unselfconsciously, it was voiced metrically, just to give lilt and play to a phrase, or phatically, not to express an idea but to establish sociability like the quack of a duck, song of a swan, or purr of a cat. ❋ Fathorse (2008)

These invariant properties are, loosely speaking, the ones that are intrinsic to the geometry and dynamics, such as distance along spatial curves and time along worldlines of galaxies, the rest mass of the galaxy, the number of particles in it, as well as a host of other properties, such as whether the spacetimes are metrically flat or curved. ❋ Norton, John D. (2008)

A) That truck weighs 1 metric [tonne]. B) [Metric's] [CD] kick butt! ❋ Crashdummy (2005)

[Char]: Oh my god! [Metric] [rocked]! Ben: No, Metric is gay, besides, I hear they suck live. ❋ Benormous (2006)

Randy: "I just bought [Metric's] newest album. I love it." Paul: "Yea, they suck! Listen to some good music like Green Day, [John Mayer], or Linkin Park!" Randy then proceeds to push [Paul's] lifeless body into the Hudson. ❋ A.J. Jonathan Edison III (2012)

Did you [see me] get [a hole in one]? [METRIC]!! ❋ Shadowgoat (2011)

[A$AP Rocky]: How was that young party last night? [Lil Wayne]: Yo dawggg, that shit was metric [AF]. ❋ SI4lyfe (2013)

They said [Rob] got [canned] because of poor metrics, but we all know [the real] reason. ❋ Spirit Bear (2004)

"Last night I saw [Metric], and I [danced] [my ass off]!" ❋ Chelsea (2005)

[A pipe] broke, and now there's a [metric buttload] of water in my [basement]! ❋ Aminal (2004)

John : dude my [kid brother] thinks the moon landing is a [conspiracy] Ken : *sigh* him and his [conspiracy's] hes so metric ❋ XchronoX (2009)

Zach - [Tones] lets get [metric] this weekend Tones - Sure i got some [molly] ❋ Scantron24 (2013)