Sentence examples for alert ear from inspiring English sources

Henry Cowell's "Synchrony" well displays the composer's alert ear for layered sonorities and crunchy cluster chords.

We will never have a more alert ear, a more attractive eye, or a more ardent heart than his.

As well as having an acute eye and an alert ear which marked his productions, Gill was an accomplished writer, too.

Gould's alert ear, startling imagination, rhythmic sparkle and ability to project contrapuntal intricacies with uncanny clarity combine impressively in these riveting performances.

Though Barbara White's "Five Elements" for piano quintet (2003) was inspired by her study of Chinese philosophy, what grabs you is her alert ear for colors and her inventive writing for the instruments, notably her use of a rectangular wood block to depress clusters of piano keys, releasing the dampers and allowing the strings to resonate when other notes are struck.

In "Seymour: An Introduction," Seymour, thinking of van Gogh, tells Buddy that the only question worth asking about a writer is "Were most of your stars out?" Writing, real writing, is done not from some seat of fussy moral judgment but with the eye and ear and heart; no American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than his.

When he was born three years ago, Monarchos got to his feet with one jump, eyes alert, ears pricked, ten minutes old.

(JJ) The startled she-wolf with the pricked, alert ears is Etruscan; the two babies suckling were added in the Renaissance — or so it has long been thought.

Its head sits above a torso without arms or legs, and its cartoonish eyes stare out below alert ears embedded with speakers.

The first hint of which way the verdict was heading may have come, to some alert ears, soon after, when the judge seemed to pause to point out that "establishments known as 'strip clubs' often generate criminal activity including prostitution and narcotics".

The air rings with alarms as the personal exposure alerts do their best to alert disinterested ears.