Sentence examples for by a single work from inspiring English sources

Rarely was an entire auction so overshadowed by a single work.

ARAM KHACHATURIAN is one of a number of composers -- from Pachelbel, with his Canon, to Orff, with "Carmina Burana" -- known to most music lovers by a single work.

And whatever school existed wasn't triggered by a single work or artist, or the sudden arrival of artists like Fabritius or Paulus Potter, but was built over several generations.

It is difficult to cram 200 years of history into a few small rooms; many artists are represented only by a single work, while equally worthy candidates are not represented at all.

Mr. Hodgkin, another prominent British painter, is also represented by a single work, a somber lithograph from 1979: a brownish abstraction that captures some of the all-over compositional devices, if not the exuberant color favored by the painter.

Warhol is represented by a single work, a unique 1979 black and red screen print of Georgia O'Keeffe, speckled with diamond dust and based on a Polaroid of the aging artist that Warhol probably took some time in the early 1970's.

I was raised by a single, working, feminist mother.

In "56 Up," he reveals that he was orphaned at nine; brought up by a single working mother, he went to Oxford on a scholarship.

We identified two other potentially vulnerable families from a structural point of view, in addition to child-only and skip-generation households: (1) households headed by young adults, and (2) households headed by a single working age adult.

(Its 2017-18 claseason season contains not a single work by a living American composer).

Plenty of today's dancegoers have never seen a single work by either.