Sentence examples for amusing setting from inspiring English sources

Trying to write music that would appeal to a wide public, he composed an amusing setting of "The Siege of Corinth" (1941), to a Rabelais text, and his First Symphony (1942), an essay in a melodic, almost pastoral style.

Other than that, composers have to fall back on parody, as in the very amusing setting of the mechanicals' play in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, or the recent Jerry Springer: The Opera.

There are also some amusing set pieces.

The change allows for some topical humor and an amusing set by Francis O'Connor depicting Selim's swanky home, which includes an elevator.

This delightful but rarely heard Chabrier operetta is presented in an imaginative staging by Mark Lamos, on sleek, clean-lined but quirkily amusing sets by Andrew Lieberman.

But there's also some quite amusing set pieces about today's teens and their addiction to their phones and social media.

The movie has been called a parable of Britain's postwar decay, but that seems a rather grandiose view of what is essentially an amusing set of power rituals that degenerate into outright sadism and masochism.

The music was framed in texts — among them, historical documents from 15th-century Spain (most notably the Edict of Expulsion); an amusing set of observations about dance by an Italian dancing master, Guglielmo the Jew; and Bertram Gross's fascinating speculative fantasy about Shakespeare's having secretly been Jewish — in readings by John Genke.

The lyrics, by Paul Foglino, are occasionally clunky, and Moe's song about why he doesn't eat cake went on a little long, but Mr. Glover, though not a born singer, redeemed himself in a couple of mildly amusing set-piece numbers with his two shallow, bridge-playing lady friends-of-a-certain-age (Lisa Passero and Joan Jaffe).

So rather than see it as a system by which God spoke to us through prophets, books and laws, we reduced religion to a strange and sometimes amusing set of rules on which the lower classes depended; having stripped religion of its power, we were able to accept it into our home, as a strange sort of background music to accompany our oscillations between East and West.

The only new extra is an amusing set of playing cards with the gals photos and the silly set that contains them all shaped to look like Sophia's purse.