Sentence examples for a lively work from inspiring English sources

In 1999, another 13th-century Roman fresco -- a lively work depicting the cycle of seasons -- was found buried beneath blue paint in a hallway of the Church of Santi Quattro Coronati.

And in the Mozart, a lively work rich in the courtly spirit of the Viennese ballroom, Mr. Silverstein's lines were shapely and sweet, qualities magnified by the general lushness of the ensemble texture.

The program also included a lively work by the French horn player Jeff Scott based on Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday," as well as a breezy arrangement of the spiritual "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit" by the group's flutist, Valerie Coleman.

The singers also played percussion instruments in Beatriz Bilbao's "Fiesta de San Juan" (2003), a lively work the choir performed here in 2007, and in several pieces — Edgar Zapata's "Menciona'o" (1980) and Otilio Galíndez's "Arestinga" (1959) — the choir was accompanied by two small guitars (four-stringed instruments called cuatros) and percussion.

The piece was not about how to fritter away one's time profitlessly, which might have made it a useful and lively work, but about how much can be achieved by filling every moment with activity!

Upon their arrival, they found a vibrant, lively working class intellectual culture: workers read voraciously in Lowell's city library and Reading Rooms, and subscribed to the large, informal "circulating libraries" which trafficked in novels.

"Serious at a time when there were a lot of people doing very lively work like Annie Leibovitz and even on the opposite pole Robert Mapplethorpe.

Having already offered the premiere of a Stanley Silverman work there in September, the trio turned up at Zankel Hall on Tuesday evening with a lively new work by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

But this lively work still cuts a steam-powered dash through the Atlantic waves.

The Borodin shared the first half of the program with Zurab Nadarejshvili's Quartet No. 2 (2003-7), a lively, eclectic work full of unusual juxtapositions and fresh ideas.

Lata Pada, who choreographed "Kalinga," also created "Howzaat!," a lively new work about cricket and its absorption into the culture of South Asia.