Sentence examples for a canon from from inspiring English sources

They constructed a canon from a tricycle and baseball bat.

These volumes, and their accompanying UK and international exhibitions, began the task of asserting Boty's place in a canon from which, effectively, she'd completely vanished.

Pointing out that a canon from York Minster had blessed last year's Pride march in the city, she added: "The Church of England must take decisive action to deal with this radical agenda".

The following quote from Chris Welch — then an editor for the Melody Maker, a taste-making British weekly music paper — is chronologically similar to Mark Richardson's writing, in 2009, about the Radiohead's "Kid A," for Pitchfork's own millennial stab at building a canon from two hundred albums: These boys were kings of the Big Beat Sound.

The program opened with a canon from Bach's "Musical Offering" and flowed without pause into Mr. Prabowo's "Ke Erse" for viola and alto saxophone, a wail of sax over rapid viola figures based on an earlier work for viola and voice.

The building program, begun by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin in the 12th century, continued under Jocelin of Wells, who was a canon from 1200, then bishop from 1206.

Every movie fan with the slightest scholarly or antiquarian bent carries around a canon culled from film history, a register of consensus masterpieces, important milestones and significant developments, from "The Birth of a Nation" to "Saving Private Ryan," with a roster in between that seems, in hindsight, to be as fixed as the reading list in a college literature survey.

In 1378, Jean Daudin, a canon, received from Charles V 200 francs for his translation in old French of Petrarch's text, with the title Les Remèdes de l'une et l'autre Fortune (Remedies from Fortune Fair and Foul).

Imperial libraries housed in state buildings were open to users as a privilege on a limited basis, and represented a literary canon from which disreputable writers could be excluded.

By contrast, the cultural prestige that comics currently enjoy is exemplified by this book, which features appreciations of a familiar canon — from George Herriman to Chris Ware — by a starry list of contributors, such as Dave Eggers and Jules Feiffer.

First on the bill was "tria ex uno," a 2001 sextet that Mr. Haas based on a splendid canon from the Renaissance composer Josquin's Missa "L'Homme Armé." In the first brief section, Mr. Haas assigns the canon's three voices to violin, cello and bass clarinet.