Sentence examples for a complex passage of from inspiring English sources

Baker wrote the introductory essay, which perhaps ought to go down as a definitive account-in-brief of a complex passage of cultural upheaval – and its conclusion at the start of the 1980s, as new tastes, technologies and attitudes left precious little room for a sensibility that had become as tired as modern jazz had been in 1965.

The other approach was the contrapuntal fantasia, in which long, complex passages of counterpoint evolve with a miraculous blend of compositional rigor and improvisatory freedom.

After all, there are actors who have never touched a piano keyboard yet can appear to play flawlessly complex passages of Bach or Beethoven when summoned to do so by their directors; but no non-tennis-playing actor has been able to fake even so much as a relaxed-looking bouncing of the ball before a serve.

The grass mound hides a complex of passages and chambers built of carefully crafted slabs of sandstone that in scale and accomplishment has few equals in prehistoric Europe.

Just as the termites burrow a complex network of passages to keep their mounds cool, so the clay-spewing robot weaves a matrix of tubes inside the column, which can then be washed out of the cast with a high pressure water-jet, leaving spiralling ventilation tunnels through its centre.

The city sums up different times and phases of development in its structuring, so as to make it a complex structure of passages, and of temporal thresholds.

Progressively, small duct-like spaces were formed between the cells, eventually coalescing in a complex array of passages (Fig. 2F; arrows).

By the time Gygax and Kuntz had stopped working on their original home campaign, the castle dungeons had encompassed 50 levels of cunningly complex passages and thousands of rooms and traps.

After an early experimental novel, Passage de Milan (1954; "Milan Passage"), Butor won critical acclaim with L'Emploi du temps (1956; Passing Time), a complex evocation of his gloomy season in Manchester.

Kansas songs such as "Miracles out of Nowhere" often contain complex passages in which the violin and one or more keyboards and guitars all play separate contrapuntal parts.

All view painful or complex passages in American history through a satiric lens, framing the stories they present in comic quotation marks of one kind of another.