Sentence examples for Netherlander from inspiring English sources

When a cheery Netherlander comes round to fix your laptop, spots the porn script and offers his friend's houseboat as a location as long as he himself can take the role of the amorous plumber, make sure that the "dynamic sex wizard" who plays your romantic lead does not suffer from motion sickness.

Cipriano de Rore, another Netherlander adopted by Italy, felt Willaert's influence strongly yet contrived to set new standards in the interpretation of poetry through music and also to encourage an artistic fusion of the contrapuntal and homophonic styles, using them alternately in one and the same composition according to the dictates of the poem.

Three of these researchers (the Austrians Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz and the Netherlander Nikolaas Tinbergen) were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1973 for their work on the subject.

An article he wrote during this period, "If I Were a Netherlander," published in the Indische Partij's De Express, led to his exile to the Netherlands between 1913 and 1918.

Born in Delft, van Aelst studied with his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst, and, unusually for a Netherlander, spent time in the artist community of Paris as a teenager.

The truth of that claim became obvious over the next few months as the Netherlander – who had inherited the No9 shirt previously occupied by the underwhelming Argentinian goal-hanger Hernán Crespo – proved equally proficient at not playing in a whole variety of positions across the Chelsea back line.

The generation following Josquin brought stylistic diversity to the fore without, however, diminishing the influence of the Netherlanders.

At the beginning of the 16th century the style of vocal music was generally uniform because of the pervading influence of Netherlanders during the preceding half century.

The coup misfired, but William managed to keep Anjou (who returned to France) in his post despite the outraged feelings of the Netherlanders.

The Netherlanders Jakob Obrecht and Jean d'Okeghem, succeeded by the celebrated Josquin des Prez, brought clarity and lyricism to an art that had sometimes leaned toward the sombre.

Not, all things considered, the sort of thing to be expected from the stolid, earthbound Netherlanders, except that they took to it like ducks to a Dutch canal.