Sentence examples for contraption of a from inspiring English sources
'GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG' And now that Robert Lepage has constructed his wondrous technological contraption of a Wagner "Ring" cycle, it is time for it all to come crashing down.
Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself, directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from a peculiar contraption of a thriller by Dennis Lehane.
Merle put on another tape, a rambunctious medley of "Workin' Man Blues" and "Always Late with Your Kisses," and before long his great contraption of a band — guitars, piano, drums, horns — was wailing at top volume.
Mr. Brooks, the play's book and song writer, and Susan Stroman, his director and choreographer, have fashioned a Rube Goldberg contraption of a show that will never entirely disappoint as long as the machinery runs smoothly.
But Mr. Brooks and Susan Stroman, his inventive director and choreographer, have fashioned a Rube Goldberg contraption of a show that will never entirely disappoint as long as the machinery runs smoothly (2 45).
But Mr. Brooks and Susan Stroman, his dazzlingly inventive director and choreographer, have fashioned a Rube Goldberg contraption of a show that will never entirely disappoint as long as the machinery runs smoothly.
The simple throttle plate has continued to perform admirably, even as the systems that supplied gasoline progressed from the crude evaporative contraptions of a century ago to today's brainy electronic fuel-injection systems.
They're even decorating the outsides of their machines with showy paint jobs that mimic the candy-colored automotive contraptions of an earlier generation's youth.
Onstage was the Shockspot, once dubbed the "Rolls Royce of fuck machines"—a mechanized contraption of hard lines and metallic finish with a dildo affixed to its arm.
He built an empire out of a technical contraption of his own, the Bloomberg terminal, and he uses a BlackBerry for e-mail and an iPod for Spanish lessons.
It has not come around since 1949, the year that gave birth not only to the People's Republic, but to the EDSAC, a contraption of vacuum tubes and wires that was a milestone of early computing, and which paved the way for someone like me to write in real time from an alleyway home in Beijing.
